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| 5 | 166 | We were View more quotes about desperately">desperately eager to learn it. |
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| 5 | 163 | All of us, however, I thought, were doing extremely well. |
| 5 | 164 | This was not simply because of the frequency and intensiveness of our lessons, and our finding ourselves in an environment where this language, it seemed, was simply, or primarily, spoken, but because of our motivation. |
| 5 | 165 | We strove to learn it. |
| 5 | 166 | We were desperately eager to learn it. |
| 5 | 167 | We had learned that not only the quality and nature of our life on this world, but perhaps our very survival, could be contingent on our success in understanding and speaking this language. |
| 5 | 168 | Too, we were often accorded private instructresses. |
| 5 | 169 | These girls, though collared, and doubtless branded, as we were, wore brief tunics, which put them immeasurably above us. |