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LEARNING A LANGUAGE
About 150 to 200 hours of instruction and $1,500 worth of cds and classes should produce credible speaking ability in French, Spanish, or German. For Oriental and Middle Eastern languages, figure 2 or 3 times longer.
Boardroom Reports
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ALPHABETIZING THINGS
Twenty-five percent of any alphabetical list will be under the first three letters of the alphabet (A-B-C).
Lewy Olfson, contemplative, Stonington, Connecticut
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USING WORDS
The average American has a vocabulary of about 3,000 words.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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UNDERSTANDING FRENCH
French speakers use twice as many syllables as English speakers. That's why French is so hard to understand.
Sid Ore (or Sidore), Paris, France
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COMMUNICATING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY
In foreign countries, talk to people who speak a second language that you know too. Two people who both know a little of the same language will communicate better than one who is fluent and one who is not.
Peter Reimuller, Point Arena, California
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COMPARING FRENCH TO GERMAN
A text printed in German will take up a third more space than the same one in French.
Dick Brenton, record producer
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SPEAKING FRENCH IN ENGLISH
One in 20 words and phrases spoken in everyday French is actually English.
The Story of English, hosted by Robert MacNeil, PBS
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TALKING TO FOREIGNERS
When you are conversing in your native language with people who don't speak it fluently, assume that they understand about half as much as they look like they understand.
Stephen Cudhea, English-language instructor, Ishikawa, Japan
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CRACKING A SECRET CODE
If the high-frequency letters ETOANIRSH occur very often, in this order, you can assume that you are dealing with a transposition cipher in which the letters remain the same but are rearranged in a new pattern. On the other hand, the repeated appearance of low-frequency letters indicates that a message has been written in a substitution code.
John Laffin, cryptologist
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LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Half a semester of foreign-language instruction at the college level is equal to one year of language instruction at the high school level.
David S. Russell, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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TRANSLATING GREEK
If you can't identify a word in a Greek sentence, it is a verb with a prefix. To figure it out, go through the lexicon chopping off one letter from the front at a time.
Gene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois
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