Born Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz harmonica player.

as opposed to the subject-verb-object order used in English. Nine other difficult languages are: Mandarin Chinese, which has thousands of characters, tonal pronunciation and no alphabetic script.

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