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

On 30 Nov, Josh Roth  wrote:

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> Wowzers. You're making me want to be an Israeli speech therapist!
Either that, or making you hungry!  ;-)
 (That's ok. It did that to me!  :-)  )
     You'd be suprised at what can constitute speech practice!
I once spent a number of therapy sessions discussing
the finer points of surfing with a kid who was one of our local
top competitors in the sport's youth division!

> 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.

    I don't know --- I, myself,  haven't seen much deviation, either way,
from the expected:
young Ethiopian children pick up the lang quickly and end up speaking it
without
accents; the older a person starts, the harder it usually is (unless one has
a talent for languages). It can also depend upon how a person is taught
(or if taught at all!) and what daily exposure they have to the new lang and
what need they have to use it.


Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.

A word is an awesome thing.