MANY LANGUAGES.
The gift -of languages may not have ; descended upon the ' Belgians, but the ability to acquire new tongues in 'a miraculously ahort' time ia certainly 6ne of their accomplishments (Writes a- London coiTespondent). TWy absorb English with. astonishing rapidity. Their native tongue is French, and they proudly claim that they speak, better. French than the Parisians. I cannot judge, because their average speed of enunciation is 500 words a minute, and tho croqhing - Chinese ging«song is innre. easily .to be understood. Several . children within my own knowledge can cliattp r :in English after only a month's residence. They commen ced with \ " Ypu play?", to English children, arid they have added a copious vocabulary "tcj ; this first necessity of. their playfitl natures. The mothec of a little child of four tells me that she heard the wee mite repeating yi -its sleep last night, "One, two, three, four. One, two, three four "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13575, 31 December 1914, Page 4
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