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106 - The Language Secret - John Stedman - How to Learn a Foreign Language: Or. How to Speak 10 Languages. Badly

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The Past Is Another Country

I read in your book, that apparently, forty years ago in the u k, it was common to learn two languages. We studied french and german, but without any idea that you speak these languages. As i said, i'd never met anyone who spoke another language. So i spent my entire time at school and never spoke a word of french or ma whi is exercises. It's like when you go back forty years. The uka was a different world. You were funnelled into the academic stream. And at my school, as you say, it was compulsory to learning two languages. But wegani come to favorite sayings, there is a saying the past

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