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http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/14/career-in-languages-hiv-charity

The article is about  a Slovakian woman who has had to learn many languages  because of her background.  In addition to experience,  she reflects on  her ability to learn different languages and how this ability has helped her.

She explains how she learned German, and English and Portuguese and how she has succeeded  by using different strategies.

 The author describes how she learned English in Canada, where she had to emigrate after a revolution in her country.  She describes  how this was a process of complete immersion and  how she decided  to overcome embarrassment and push her through in order to break the language barrier.

After this experience the author describes her experience in Brazil learning Portuguese.  In this case she became fluent in a few months.

In her summary she states that attitude is extremely important to learn a new language.

Finally she narrates how the possibility to speak many languages has helped her to work  with refugees   at an east London charity, Doctors of the World. When she refers to this experience she says, “it was brilliant, because you could see instantly the difference it made and the rapport that was being built.”

One more rewarding experience is that she has helped people overcome the language barrier and encourage other people to do so.