Language is the key to understanding people in an area.

For years I've thought more people should be studying languages like Arabic or Chinese. It seems everyone is studying European language. Those skills are not really in need.

I think people see clearly that there could be a job for them waiting down the road if they master the language and culture.

They started the meeting out by saying, "Everybody please take your seats"
I was halfway back to my cubicle with mine before they stopped me...

What are your drawn to?"
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"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.

Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he had his own ideas and peculiar ways. If you wanted to talk about a glass of water, you had to start back with God creating the heavens and earth; the apple; Abraham; Moses and Jesus; Rome; the Middle Ages; gunpowder; the Revolution; back to Newton; up to Einstein; then war and Lenin and Hitler. After reviewing this and getting it all straight again you could proceed to talk about a glass of water. "I'm fainting, please get me a little water." You were lucky even then to make yourself understood. And this happened over and over and over with everyone you met. You had to translate and translate, explain and explain, back and forth, and it was the punishment of hell itself not to understand or be understood.