I see this often among Spanish-speaking professionals listening to English: they want to understand everything. Not just the main message, but the same level of detail they believe they would catch in Spanish. Recently, a CEO told me: “I’m thinking that perhaps I don’t even catch every detail in Spanish, but in English I become […]
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I started learning English in high school. German would have been the logical choice. The town where I grew up had an influx of Austrian tourists every day, so German was the obvious practical language. But I chose English. At the time, I had very little idea what learning English would involve. My main contact
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Does learning a second language weaken your first? Not in my experience. One of the most interesting benefits of learning and teaching foreign languages has been discovering how often the process makes people more conscious of their own language. Something that has been completely familiar can suddenly become visible when another language provides a point
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