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French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have.
I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
