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  1. Ishtar, because we don’t HAVE to speak foreign languages (we have the good luck to born with THE international language of business, diplomacy, etc.) we don’t seem to take foreign language very seriously and part of that is crappy teaching that doesn’t focus on USING it. Language is treated as a cool parlor trick, not something that is a serious part of your development.

  2. “I can read and write fairly well, but please do not ask me to put two words together verbally.”

    Agreed, ishtar. I could read and write Borges in the original Spanish, but couldn’t tell the cab driver to go to my hotel.

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