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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. |
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.- Ferdinand de Saussure
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I am good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
Well, maybe so, although I do not think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.
