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      5 months ago

      Knowing a few basic words doesn’t mean you “speak a language”.

      She didn’t have the words for “food”, “drink” and “surgery”, but has the basic words for no and basic times

      As you’d expect, one learns “no”, “after” and “tomorrow” before words like “surgery”