Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast
The face of self-pity was universally understood.
The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.
Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you
Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language
Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty
I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids just have an easier time with words.
My only comfort was the knowledge that I was not alone. Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overhe...
HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak...
Freedom, one of the most important words in any language.
Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another,...