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My mother, who believed that childen should learn languages as early as possible, dropped me into the local Argentine school where I absorbed Spanish by a kind of osmosis--except for one phrase.
My Mother, who believed that children should learn languages as early as possible, dropped me into the local Argentine school where I absorbed Spanish by a kind of osmosis--except for one phrase.