Re: OT: Speech Therapy (was Re: Re: Slightly OT: French as a second language)

Josh Roth wrote:
>
>Wowzers. You're making me want to be an Israeli speech therapist! I wonder
>what it's like for an Ethiopian learning Hebrew - very difficult of course,
>from what I've read, but the languages are distantly related - I wonder if
>it
>helps even a little bit.
You never know - a girl here at Uni tells me that knowing Farsi (her L1) is
a big help when learning French. She speaks Swedish and English, which must
help with the vocab, but she claims that the French verb system is alot
closer to Farsi's than to Swedish's or English's.

                                      Andreas

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