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...original, in private hands in New York, was out of my physical and financial reach. Then Tamara, my wife (who speaks fluent Cantonese), suggested Da Fen, the reproduction-art village in Shenzhen-the southern Chinese city roughly two hours by train and taxi from our Hong Kong home. Founded by Hong Kong painter Huang Jiang in 1989, Da Fen now hosts around 600 studios and 5,000 artists living out the Maoist dictum of "more, better, cheaper, faster...
...student became the TF. Yoda would be proud.Pillsbury, who is also a Crimson photographer, also learned Swahili as a second language, but in Tanzania, not Cambridge. After graduating from high school in Los Angeles, she spent a gap year volunteering for an NGO called Students Partnership Worldwide. She became fluent enough during those months of immersion to impress Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures John M. Mugane. He then offered her a job her sophomore fall.“Leah has been wonderful because she learned the language and can now be revered by the students?...
...hope you return, “habibi,” or sweetheart. —Annie M. Lowrey ’07 is an English and American Literature and Language concentrator in Quincy House. Although she still doesn’t speak fluent Arabic, she still thinks things will work...
...native Spanish speaker who is fluent in English, do you find it any harder to express yourself in one language versus the other...
...Dame Helen Mirren enters the room drinking a vodka gimlet and wearing her spangly Christian Lacroix dress. She waxes about the "theatah," confesses, "I really do feel like a Queen - or a fairy princess" and answers a question in fluent French. The room's earlier stone cold fox assessment is elevated to living legend...