Alex Poole, "Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
New Books in Education
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Is It a Hindrance to a Lot of Americans to Learn a Language?
i agree with you. See, the other thing is allso that americans possibly put themselves in situations which are challenging and which they don't think would be. And then they get demoralized and henty think, well, i don't needt eo. This was just not for me. Ye, so i think that's, and possibly they also learn a language for compelt utilitarian reasons. Like in many parts of the world to day, we have our sauce centrs,. But in the us, that's not the case. You go from basic to intermediate to trying to read don quixote, and you don't even know how to ask for a fork at
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