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Fifty Languages ........ I read a story today about a man who speaks 50 languages. Seriously. His name is Andrew Arguelles and he says the secret to his success “predictably, it's down to endless hours of concentration – reading, studying and practicing grammar.” On the one hand I am extremely jealous – who wouldn’t be? But on the other hand I wouldn’t have the need to come here – to italki. Yes, it is a language site but what makes this site isn’t its software – the bits of code that have so disappointed us recently with the badly judged ‘update’. I am really not in the mood to discuss that further. No – I am talking about the soft software – you ……. and I. All of us. We make this site interesting, boring, helpful, haughty, passionate, dispassionate, disgusting, enervating, challenging and rewarding. But today, I have also discovered it can be warmly affectionate as well. It was my birthday yesterday – and at my age this day really becomes a day like any other – but not yesterday – not by a long shot – in fact not like any day I have experienced before in my life. I can imagine some of you in paroxysm of laughter. I can imagine others in stunned silence. What is he talking about? But those of you in the know know. Basically you knocked my socks off when you sent me something so thoughtful, so wonderful, so heart-felt, and yes, so affectionate that it will stay with me for a long time. Well at least for a year until I hope we can do it all over again. So to all of you I would like to say a very big and warm thank you my friends (you know who you are). And to the rest of you – please be sure to send the next friend who has a birthday your warmest wishes – you never know how much it will really mean.

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Glad to hear that you liked your card and enjoyed your birthday. Bottoms up from Down Under:))
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Long time ago, i wanted to meet people from other countries but how to do it?? if i couldn't travel... i wanted to learn about other cultures and languages but only had books and tv programs to know about others. But how to touch that and to see if what i saw was true? I agree with u, Ralph, fortunately we don't speak 50 languages for that reason we are here. Not only in italki we find the solution to our language questions but also we feel the warm of friends who have learnt to appreciate our friendship. To those few friends i know here, thank u so much for your company and encourament words in the right moment...
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Very glad to hear your birthday was happy. I pasted your articles to Google Translate, so she gave me to read over and over again. From which I can get more. Although I can not hear the tone of your heart to read these sentences, but Google Translate allows me to tracked them. This site is too silent, I suggest that it should create with click-to-read functionality. No way, my English level is so low. Without the help of Google, I always fainted at the first glance of a long article .
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We have this quote here in our country, "the only treatment for generous people, is to pay them back their generosity", Dear friend Ralph, thats the last thing that we can do to pay u back ur kindness and your generosity, u are very generous with us by your kindness and beautiful talking, all my respect!
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Once upon a time, there was a young girl. This girl was dreaming to travel around the world and meet new people. She has started learning languages - and she really hoped to meet foreign friends; learn about their cultures, traditions, and communicate with them. One day, she decided to travel to The Escapelandia or italki. There, she has found a magical and amazing place. All the world; her own dream. She has started dealing with people there and learn more about their lives. Since a few months, she met a group of amazing friends or even her family - in The Escapelandia. She and her friends are always having great times; learning, debating, having fun together, and even organizing parties. But between those group of amazing friends, there was a unique and close friend for her. This friend is a very caring and smart one. He is always there for helping and making her happy. There is a good saying, "A friend in need is a friend indeed" - he is this kind of friends. This girl is trying to repay the favor for him. She owes to him with many thanks. This friend is you, dearest Ralph! Thank you very much for your entry! As Annie said, you know why! ;)

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