Essays One by Lydia Davis

Author:Lydia Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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28. Learn at least one foreign language in your life, either on your own (it can be enjoyable) or in a class; read regularly in that foreign language; it will give you perspective on English and teach you more about English; and it will develop your mind and character—to go back to that.

Here is the same advice from Sparrow, in his entertaining small-format book called How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization and other helpful hints!:

18. STUDY A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

It doesn’t matter which language you study. What’s important is confronting words like szökik.*

*Hungarian for “jump.”

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