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In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...

You can quickly learn a few useful phrases before you travel, or take the long road and work toward fluency with a lifetime ...