[Sca-cooks] globetrotting

[Patrick McKinnion]

on 5/20/02 8:46 AM, Elaine Koogler at ekoogler1 at comcast.net wrote:

> However, when you don't use a language on a
> regular basis, I believe you tend to forget it.  And I think that is the
> main reason many of us in the U. S. don't speak more than one language.

    Let's see - two semesters of Japanese, 15 years ago.   Now, can barely
follow a Anime tape w/o subtitles.

    Canadian French - learned it while working for 6 months as a "roadie"
for Le Cirque du Soleil.   Later was reinforced by 2 years working for a
French-owned company and two semesters of French (Parisian, instead of
Quebequiose)    Can read and write in French, can't speak or understand it
worth a damm.

    A year of Irish Gaelic.   Almost completely lost.   :-(

    Several years of Latin, learned growing up Catholic.   Can puzzle my way
though the written form.

    The neurological / cognitive lab I'm the SysAdmin for studies ASL and
the biology of Signed languages.   So I'm learning ASL right now.    But
yes, most languages disappear if you don't use them.

    - Padraig o Connell

I doubt they would get a clue even if Blue and Steve themselves came in and
pummeled them mercilessly with a sledgehammer with Blue's pawprint stamped
on the business end.
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