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Like other Soviet youngsters who showed musical promise at an early age, she had no real childhood. "All I did," she recalls in her fluent but slightly askew English, "was practice like crazy mad." She spent her youth studying cello, composition and piano ("I love piano. I still play but not in concert"), and gave her first public performance at age seven. But her budding career hit the skids when her father, a prizewinning virtuoso bass player, was judged a political risk by the authorities. "He was incredible bassist," she says, "but he was so much exposed to the West...
...WINNER] ERNESTINE BRADLEY (2): raised in Germany; fluent in four languages...
Charlotte follows. She is fluent in French, and she volunteers to carry instructions to another part of the shifting, uncertain Resistance web. She does not find Greg, and when the time comes for her nighttime escape flight from a grass field lit by flares, she stays...
...could better enjoy a nine-course dinner (including shark's fin soup, "Assorted Foods in Hot Pot," coconut juice and "Bird's Nest") and more serious drink. Jiang is warm and witty, and he has a wonderful voice that ranges--both in Chinese and in his near fluent English--from low and deep to high pitched and animated when he gets worked up over an idea or a joke. He is a good listener, leaning back in his chair with a cocked head, leaning forward to respond. His eyes were full of mirth throughout the evening...
Curtatone has proposed to create a municipal cultural affairs office with workers fluent in languages like Portuguese and Spanish, which are spoken by many in the city...