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A student argues that the Italian sounds gentler and softer than the English, so it does not merely describe love but makes the listener feel it.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...sounds much more gentle, and it sounds much softer than the English. I'm going off vibe here, but what I'm saying is that the..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...sounds much more gentle, and it sounds much softer than the English. I'm going off vibe here, but what I'm saying is that the..."
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Aurelia says English rhymed translations exist but are generally poor compared with the sonic force of the Italian.
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Jiang frames Chinese students' pursuit of English, U.S. dollars, and Western immigration as a historically constructed game rather than natural self-interest.
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British schooling works as elite indoctrination: English education teaches colonial elites to see British culture as superior and to seek British mobility.
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English is not just grammar and vocabulary; learning English means absorbing Anglo-American culture, philosophy, and identity through soft power.
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Shakespeare gives English fluency to the British because the culture expects readers to know and recite him.
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Shakespeare turns English into a linguistic internet where cultures and ideas meet, but the exchange is mediated through utilitarian, skeptical, empirical Anglo-American civilization.
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Jiang claims English spreads soft power because learning the language also means learning a culture and history, a British advantage later inherited by Americans.
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"...sounds much more gentle, and it sounds much softer than the English. I'm going off vibe here, but what I'm saying is that the..."
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"I'm pretty sure there's some rhymed translations in English, but they are pretty bad. But I, I think what it's called, but..."
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"And recently, there's been a push to promote Han nationalism, which means a clapping down on the rights of ethnic minorities. And the most..."
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"Interesting. So does that include English or they teach you English in China?"
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"They are trying to reduce it. They reduce the teaching of English as well. But it is much too popular among middle -class Chinese..."
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"...you do is you spend a lot of your time learning english in fact you probably spend more time learning english than you do..."
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"in life is to immigrate to a western country uh specifically united states right you all want to go united states for college get..."
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"respect and status in china okay but instead you learn english um u.s dollars doesn't make any sense what you really want is status..."
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"be common people in the united states or britain or canada so it's a really weird game and so the question we want i..."
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"...you went to these schools, what did you learn? You learned English. But when you learn English, what do you learn? You learn that..."
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"But if you go through the British system, you might win a scholarship to go study at Oxford or Cambridge, okay? You even might..."
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"well I mean you can make the argument that English is already the global language it's been a global language for hundreds of years..."
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