The best way to get an appreciation for a language, a true understanding of it, and to see its nuances and idiosyncrasies is to go to a country where it is an official language.
The zeal with which Guardiola recalls "many hours of homework" while learning to speak German in New York merges into a lofty appreciation of the language.
With a cultural portrait so coarsely drawn and lacking in subtlety, it is little wonder that Americans tend to lack a nuanced appreciation of German language and humor.
Ultimately, as befits the author of "The Writer's Art," Kilpatrick's appreciation of language was an aesthetic one.
While he was under the tutelage of the magnificently named Miss Pickersgill, his appreciation of the language blossomed.
Converging around the issue of everyday language, Gadamer and Wittgenstein radically disagree vis-à-vis "poetic language". For all his appreciation of language's specificity and consequent resistance to theory, its endless slipperiness and variety, Wittgenstein, early or late, seldom confronts language at its most opaque and elusive, that is, in the poetic.
James was one of the finest describers of landscape and architecture, and Rendell also had a keen appreciation of language.
Though there was no opportunity for political or forensic oratory in the Byzantine world, the taste for rhetoric and the appreciation of well-structured language, choice figures of speech and thought, and skillful delivery remained undiminished in Byzantine society.
Excellent knowledge of a foreign language and a mature, informed appreciation of a foreign literature open doors to many professions.
Can a course labeled visual literacy enhance anyone's appreciation of the English language?
He made me learn phonetically the complete lyrics of "I am the very model of a modern major general" at the age of seven, which did wonders for my appreciation of the English language but very little for my street cred in primary school.
