L ong, long ago, we all communicated using telepathy, the universal language of thought; but humankind lost this ability through self-interest. The world’s greatest sages, the Tibetans, think that this is how spoken language arose.

T hough the spectrum of languages is diverse, the people using them - and the things they talk about - are mostly the same. If you want to talk to foreigners, you simply learn a different language.

C ommunicating in a foreign language is one thing, but to work in it is quite another. Imagine, if you can, a fiddler playing a pipe.