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learning a language 

is easier when you live where it is spoken

you pick up the slang, the abbreviated

the phrases and sayings

and the nuances of regional dialects

here being Occitane, Ariegois and Catalan
you worry less about the le and the la
the correct tense and endings
you just go with it

but when it's 2am 

and you're feeling fine

with wine

try explaining cockney rhyming slang 

it ain't bright and breezy to bubble and squeak, treacle
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