[Sca-cooks] globetrotting

[John Husvar]

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From: "Philippa Alderton" <phlip_u at yahoo.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] globetrotting


>
> ---  Kiri skrev
> :
>   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.
>
> I think this is the heart of it, for Americans- at
> least for my. My HS required either 3 years of two
> foreign languages, or 4 years of one for graduation- I
> took French and Latin, Spanishe being the other choice
> (it was a small school).
>
> While I'm quite comfortable reading in several
> languages- granted, using a dictionary frequesntly, to
> be absolutely sure of the meaning of a word or phrase,
> the only language I couls speak and survive in, if
> necessary, is French. It's not because I'm
> particularly insular in my outlook, It's because _I _
> DON'T_ HAVE_ ANYONE_ TO_TALK TO!!!!!!
>
> The last time I took a foreign language class was in
> 1970, but I still remember enough to get by in French,
> and thanks to the 'Net and SCA, I've been working with
> and in other languages enough to read them
> comfortably. But there is simply no reason for me to
> talk to non-English speakers. In the last 30+ years,
> once, at an SCA party, I ran into a lady from Italy
> who spoke only Italian and French, and taught Latin.
> We got along fine in French, but the Latin didn't make
> it- she was speaking it with an Italian consonant and
> vowel shift, and I was working from an American vowel
> and consonant shift.
>
> Americans don't speak other languages because we don't
> have opportunities to, not because we don't want to.
>
> Phlip
>
> =====
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> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
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