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... Speak Man- darin ! " campaign , designed to supplant various southern Chinese dialects with Mandarin . ( This is roughly similar to a " Speak Like Prince Charles ! " campaign being launched in West Virginia . ) Since then , competence ...
... Speak Man- darin ! " campaign , designed to supplant various southern Chinese dialects with Mandarin . ( This is roughly similar to a " Speak Like Prince Charles ! " campaign being launched in West Virginia . ) Since then , competence ...
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... speak English with difficulty ; it was more troubling to hear my parents speaking in public : their high - whining ... speak English with ease . Their linguistic difficulties had no serious consequences . My mother and father made ...
... speak English with difficulty ; it was more troubling to hear my parents speaking in public : their high - whining ... speak English with ease . Their linguistic difficulties had no serious consequences . My mother and father made ...
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... speaking now the way we never speak out in public — we are together , the sounds told me . Some nights no one seemed willing to loosen the hold that sounds had on us . At dinner we invented new words that sounded Spanish , but made ...
... speaking now the way we never speak out in public — we are together , the sounds told me . Some nights no one seemed willing to loosen the hold that sounds had on us . At dinner we invented new words that sounded Spanish , but made ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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