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Letter "F" » foreign languages
«Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.»
«Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and speak the language of each new target audience.»
Author: Jef I. Richards
| About:
Advertising,
Language
| Keywords:
audience, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, interpreters, languages, practitioner, practitioners, target, unlike
«Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.»
Author: Judith S. Marin
| About:
Arguments,
Children,
Education,
Parents
| Keywords:
arguments, foreign language, foreign languages, inducement, inducements, respectful, surprised, tones
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
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«There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
common language, foreign language, foreign languages, languages, make fun, speakers
«Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, language, mispronounce
«Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Comedy,
Funny,
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
abroad, Americans, American language, despite, discover, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, for the first time, languages, progress, shocked, spoken language, The Last, travel
«Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
fatherhood, foreign language, foreign languages
«Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Culture,
Knowledge,
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, knows, know nothing, languages, languages of, of their own, Other languages, Their language, their own language
«Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
acquirement, acquirements, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, morals, paralysis, piety, poker, pokers
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