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Distance Learning/Correspondence Courses On 7/2/06 21:06, in article umm, I am diffident about correcting you, but wouldn’t it
be “ecole bilingue?” That is, a school taught in deux langues, -E Well, all this was more than 12 years ago and on the phone from Thailand!
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Distance Learning/Correspondence Courses Emery Davis wrote: Starzky et Ootch — so after
several weeks I was equipped to commit a hold-up: :o) When I first discovered the true names of the american/english films I watch as a kid, it amused me how silly the translations where. For examples, ‘Charlie’s Angels’ being ‘Drole De Dames’ and ‘The Avengers’ being ‘Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir’. You’d think they’d have found something snappier!
On the subject of silly mistakes made in a second language, My husband at an early stage of his French progress, not only found kissing my uncle a very difficult thing to do but came up once by saying ‘laissez moi vous introduire …’ for saying ‘let me introduce you’. Many followed, but like jokes, I forget. |
Distance Learning/Correspondence Courses Nick Maclaren wrote: […]
As I said, French is very hard for many/most Germanic speakers, You may not know that the recognition of basic ‘objects’ (i.e.
shape, pattern and colour for sight, and sounds as in vowels, In particular, if you have not learnt to hear certain sounds by
the age of 5 or so, you probably never will – even if you have Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. Many people have a better talent for mimicry _and_ picking out sounds than they necessarily recognise. I’d never discourage an adult learner on those grounds. Among commoner European languages, I absolutely agree that French is the toughie. But it can be done. French vowels are a bloody sight easier than Polish consonants! I started French only medium-early, at nine, under a retired colonel whose Hindi-Urdu was pretty shit-hot as far as we could judge, but whose Latin accent was totally un-Romance, and whose French accent fell a long way short, as I later discovered when I moved on to better-qualified teachers at thirteen. But when I gained fluency as a young man, non-French people thought I was French, and the French couldn’t quite place me, usually plumping for Belgian: that’s a perfectly achievable and honorable target. — Mike. |
Distance Learning/Correspondence Courses In article , Mike Lyle wrote: Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. Many people have a better talent for
mimicry _and_ picking out sounds than they necessarily recognise. I’d I know a lot of people who find the converse is true – the difficulty of Polish consonants is usually overstated.
I started French only medium-early, at nine, under a retired colonel you realise – and is certainly not for me. The only time that I have ever been taken for a French speaker was by an old Breton woman – and that was a long time ago. Neither of us was at all happy in our only common language 🙂 Regards, Nick Maclaren.
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I started French only medium-early, at nine, under a retired colonel noticing, spoke French with a very heavy Welsh accent. Janet
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Distance Learning/Correspondence Courses Nick Maclaren wrote:
I know a lot of people who find the converse is true – the difficulty I started French only medium-early, at nine, under a retired colonel What is interesting is that I can repeat Chinese words perfectly well because the French sounds already have ‘en’, ‘on’, ‘ai’, ‘eu’ and I sometime wonder if I could learn it. The idea of a new alphabet, culture etc. is attracting. However, I cannot do German. |
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Je suis que Je suis, mai Je ne suis pas que Je suis. around 1954) – the donkey-driver’s tag-line. (I am what I am, but I’m not what I follow) — Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig
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I was so surprised to learn last Friday at the parents evening, that my three of them) and describe a picture in words.
J’ai forgottenai most de it maintenant innit.
Never mind. If we happen to descend to Jenny’s house one of these days, — Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig
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I’m not sure which lycée Surely you mean Lycée? — Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig
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Ray said he had someone working for him who was from Suffolk and he used to — Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig
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I know a lot of people who find the converse is true – the difficulty I started French only medium-early, at nine, under a retired colonel satisfaction of my host. A Gaelic word, it means ‘eagle’, and is pronounced something like ‘eeel-ugth’. — Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig
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Distance Learning/Correspondence Courses In message , Rusty Hinge 2 writes A Gaelic word, it means ‘eagle’, and is pronounced something like ‘eeel-ugth’. I’ve never been quite certain whether Gaelic orthography is even more baroque that English, or whether it’s just different. — Stewart Robert Hinsley
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In message , Rusty Hinge A Gaelic word, it means ‘eagle’, and is pronounced something like ‘eeel-ugth’. I’ve never been quite certain whether Gaelic orthography is even more It’s certainly ‘different’. Aspirated letters at the beginning of a word tend to take a ‘V’ sound – Bh***, Mh*** etc and in the middle or end it usually disappears completely, as in bithidh – pronounced (more-or-less) as the English ‘be’ and ceilidh – cay-ley. The rules are really quite rigid within the bounds of local dialect, and various combinations of letters always (AFAIK) indicate the same sound – none of this ‘plough, enough, cough, dough’ etc. as in English. ‘C’ is always hard, and there is no H, J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y or Z. However, as Macalpine says under ‘H’: H, h, This letter is not acknowledged in our alphabet; but to keep the Gaelic in character with us, the Highlanders, who are THE BRAVEST and /most singular/ people in the WHOLE WORLD, (as the Scots Times says,) it is used, not only in every word, but in almost every syllable expressed or understood. HTH — Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig
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Distance Learning/Correspondence Courses In article , Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
The message A Gaelic word, it means ‘eagle’, and is pronounced something like ‘eeel-ugth’. I’ve never been quite certain whether Gaelic orthography is even more It’s certainly ‘different’. It’s also (in the case of Scottish Gaelic) a modern invention, and reflects the views of the inventors as much as anything. There was no written tradition of consequence before 2-300 years ago. That was not the case in Ireland, of course.
The rules are really quite rigid within the bounds of local dialect, and tend to have more inconsistencies. One can speculate why English became as bizarre as it is, but the Victorian dogmatism was only the culmination of a formalisation of inchoate conventions. It was already half-formalised (and wildly inconsistent) in Shakespeare’s day. Regards, Nick Maclaren.
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