Supposedly, the best way to master a foreign language is to fall in love with a native speaker. Language, in delineating a boundary that can be transgressed, is full of romantic potential. … If first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.
Over at the New Yorker, Lauren Collins writes about the experience of learning French, and how it deepened her relationship with her French-speaking husband.
