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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

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Language is perhaps the obstacle we encounter first in any project of cultural exchange and collaboration. In this section of Friends and Partners, we want to point the reader to helpful materials dealing with language instruction, tutorials, vocabulary, etc.