LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.23 (01) [EN]

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From: Pat Barrett pbarrett at cox.net <mwmbombay at gmail.com>

Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.22 (02) [EN]


I read Elif Batuman's The Possessed, a funny book about Russian literature.
She describes her skepticism when she, an American from a Turkish-speaking
family in New Jersey, was assigned to Uzbekistan because she could
communicate with the Uzbeks. To her surprise, she could.

Pat Barrett pbarrett at cox.net
http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php

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