Learning a language is not only, as one of my teachers of English used to say, „expressing what you think and getting understood“; one should definitely acquire the way of thinking, not only the system to transfer the thought stream in that language. This made me sad; to transfer one’s stream of thoughts from one tongue system to another will include all kinds of idioms and metaphorical expressions, seemingly having no connection with the reality in which the systems evolves.
Thus, perceiving a language system in its most vivid version may seem to be an unachievable task…
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