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Oct.20.2012 Four words When I first stepped onto the tarmac of Caracas' Maiquetía airport in July, 1963, shortly after my 22d birthday, I knew just four words of Spanish: caballo, pistola, sombrero and mujer. Which may have given me a 2- or 3-word advantage over most of my companions, all of us volunteers recruited in...	Oct.14.2012 Learning a New Language Learning a language means opening a door to a new world and experimenting with new ways of saying something you thought you already knew how to say. This becomes apparent when we try to translate from one language to another. What works in one language seems awkward in another and retranslating the...
Oct.12.2012 You Want to Put Your What on My Desk!?? I taught myself rudimentary Spanish in junior high and high school. But, my efforts at formal foreign language learning didn’t take place until after I enlisted in the army. I picked up enough German to get by during a two year stint in Augsburg, Germany, but, in 1967, the army...