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Going Native: Chapter 5 - Part I

Going Native: Chapter 5 - Part I

I found myself expressing strong opinions that I didn’t hold simply because I knew the words to say them

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Previously: Chapter 4 - Part II: Go jump in a lake. Or something.

Learning Spanish: I was quite a wag

Avoid English society and conversation and read Don Quixote through and aloud to a teacher every morning…be schooled by bright eyes and female tongues of an evening. The fair sex prove better mistresses and their lessons are more attended to by their pupi…

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