berlitz

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1. A brand of language skills learning. During the teaching of the language all instruction is done in the target language.

   “"Clotilde is taking a Berlitz course in American slang. I think her instructors are a little confused about it too.”

   “"I told him you would learn the Berlitz French so you could dine with him whenever you flew into Paris.”

   “It was as if she'd learned it from a Berlitz book.”

   “He spoke some Arabic with a West Texas drawl, like a Berlitz tape on dying batteries.”

   “Soon then these guys would have regressed, be blabbering away in the language of their home village, and these Berlitz monkeys at the agency would have no idea what was being said, [....]”