I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a native. It can be a struggle to make word count sometimes, but I will persevere!
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.
People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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