Upon reflection - this is possibly nonsense!

In the same way that I claim that I would never teach anyone English in its present form, I am tempted to say this -

"If I could solely speak French - I would never learn English!"

So tempted that I will say it. Again.

If I could solely speak French - I would never learn English!

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Upon reflection - this is possibly nonsense.

In the sense that - perhaps one has to learn English to read a lot of great poetry, novels and history.

It COULD be translated I suppose.

But still, translation is not really ever the same as the original.