I think we Americans are even worse!

My father’s linguistic dexterity is the more striking because we Brits are, for the most part, dismally bad at learning other languages. We — and perhaps most Anglophones — are brought up to assume that we don’t need to learn other people’s languages because enough of them will learn ours. Languages are taught less and less in our schools. In the UK it is almost a badge of honour to boas…
How Learning Languages Has Enriched My Life
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I think we Americans are even worse!
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I was always a writer but lived in a bookkeeper’s body before I found Medium and broke free — well, almost. Working to work less and write more.
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