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Parlez-Vous Français? Americans and Foreign Languages

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Parlez-Vous Français? Americans and Foreign Languages
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Jeff Minick
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Man of letters Samuel Johnson once remarked, “Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates the mind wonderfully.”

In the spring of 1974, I learned the truth of that saying.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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