Your language is given to you.
Commanding your language is a key element in striking this defiant posture.
"Your language is taking on a life of its own," she told him.
"As long as your language is positive for the organization I have no problem," he added.
In one of them, he quoted the French writer and critic Paul Léautaud, who wrote, "Your language is your country".
"I'm here to tell you that your language is working fine," he insisted, describing how to relish the world's shifting complexity through people's speech.
You invented it, so your language is good for that form of comedy, but in France we're now doing it the French way".
"I'm here to tell you that your language is working fine," said the professor, a lean 30-year-old from Troy, Mich.
Travel and living abroad can complement learning in the classroom: "The books and verb charts may be the easiest way to ensure you expose yourself to the language at home, but the people and the culture will far outclass them once you get to the country where your language is spoken".
Love Soup is predicated on the eternally seductive idea that somewhere out there, possibly on the same bus or nursing a latte in a corner of Starbucks, is somebody who can help you make sense of it all, a person who speaks your language, is undaunted by your funny little ways and who, with a bit of luck, also looks like your favourite member of the cast of Lost.
"I'm what all of your language isn't," she says.
