TALK TO THEM.(dream dates desired by non-native English speakers)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 02-DEC-02

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In the new Pedro Almodovar film, "Talk to Her," the thirty-five-year-old Spanish actor Javier Camara plays Benigno, a male nurse who takes care of a young dancer in a coma, talking to her constantly in Spanish. But in the intermediate-English class that Ben Polk teaches at the Embassy Center for English Studies, in Chelsea, which meets five days a week for four hours a day, Javier Camara plays Javier, an ardent young man from Madrid, who has decided to stay in New York for six weeks in order to learn English.

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