Screw technicolor, red, and foreign languages. I dream in status updates.

~ Fierce Dolan

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Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

~ Emily O’beirne

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The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

~ Munia Khan

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It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.

~ Jakub Marian

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Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in a hotel over Christmas. It is most certainly not the reason why it is called 'hotel', but it will hopefully help you remember that the stress is actually on the second syllable.

~ Jakub Marian

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Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce, and it also doesn’t rhyme with it.

~ Jakub Marian

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Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words “village” and “age” whatsoever.

~ Jakub Marian

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I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

~ Elizabeth Wein

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Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

~ Sol Luckman

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One must not be shy where language is concerned.

~ Ann Patchett

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Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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