Learn a foreign tongue

I give the advice for what it is worth: if you wish to learn a foreign tongue properly, study it in bed with a native girl – I’d have got more of the classics from an hour’s wrestling with a Greek wench than I did in four years from Arnold.

Flashman, p.71, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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