27th
March
2009
My version of the witch’s brew
If you ever wonder whether you are proficient enough in another language, forget the simple tests. Ordering breakfast, or checking the alternate route to the subway don’t count in the real world. Instead, try discussing pharmaceutical interactions, or the alternatives to invasive surgery while referring to your own eyeball. Keeps you on task, believe me. It also proves just how much of a second language world is dependent on synonyms and analogies.
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