... a heavy rucksack. He addressed me in French, his only language, and realising I could speak it, he launched into an animated conversation that risked turning into a quasi-monologue. I bet his need of communication ...
... establishment...
When I arrived the elderly landlady was sitting behind a paltry desk just inside the door. She was very communicative using her Russian, not put off by our language differences, and ...
... if he knew the language. He did, having grown up in Aleppo. He was indeed a descendant of the diaspora, the grandson of a baby child who had been driven across the desert in the murderous forced marches ...
... I like travelling and foreign languages, but obviously either I don't fit with conceived ideas about that role or... well, the speculations could be infinite. As a result, my attitude became even colder ...
... hotel, but we were at a loss to communicate in a common language. When the rain stopped in the evening I went out for a walk to find that the sunrays were tinging in terrific sunset light the buildings ...
... bout of solitude in a country where without knowing the language you cannot expect much interaction with the locals. I just twisted the knife when I wanted to hire a city bike I found a website with instructions ...
... summer to offer courses of Italian language and culture. She has established a lasting relationship of love with her second hometown, the very place that cost the lives of so many soldiers.
I was coming ...
... of another visitor. I still must have missed a lot, but I let the gloomy tunnels talk their language.
The two-level lift that runs up and down the shaft pulled by the original engine is the right introduction ...
... anticipating the event and going through all the materials available about the project. Chances were the language would be rather technical. The architects finally arrived and sat behind the podium. The ...
... guide made an appearance. I have no idea how he was able to track me down in the hut, but it was needless to ask him because we had no common language. Anyhow, it was time we left, there was no dancing ...
... language. He nearly made me feel pity for his handicap until he also shouted something to the driver. As we approached the junction all expressed words of encouragement as if my enterprise was going to ...
... of translating the Bible into his native Silté language.
The area I was heading to was in fact inhabited by the Gurage people, of which the Silté represent the main Eastern subgroup. Being Muslims, ...
... the mistake. In fact, I remembered an episode that happened when I was at school. I had taken on the task of buying an English language exercise book for the whole class, and went to the bookshop with ...
... in a group in order to escape loneliness, and they merged into a higher self that requested them to behave according to set patterns, wear given styles of clothes, and speak the same kind of language. ...
... a certain extent with the majority of the population belonging to the Berber ethnicity and a dialect that is so removed from the literary language and so incomprehensible that I hardly ever dared to communicate ...
... because none of the mostly middle-aged attendees was able to cope with English. There is no shame in being monolingual, but if you believe that as a consequence Italians are in love with their own language, ...
... the mop stick trying to make out what I was reading. Realising it was a foreign language book she gave up, but not completely because after some thinking she brought up the universal language of music ...
... fanning the embers. I averted my gaze from the barbecue boat, but my body language passed unnoticed. The Chongqing girl was already prompting me to pick a couple skewers out of the bunch in her hand. I ...
... signs used a poetically cryptic language: “I am fridility don’t touch me”, or attempted philosophical reasoning: “I being is your exist”. I was also amused by the sign, down in the depth of the cave, warning ...
... village where the inhabitants have lost their local language to Chinese. When I was alone, I went up to the terrace, let the breeze caress my shirtless body and I took in the great night-time village view. ...