Re: Verb specificity (Was: Re: Natural Order of Events)

> Since my linguistic training, it has seemed to me that language pedagogy in this
> country feels that students can't handle linguistic notions easily.
> Personally, I think every high schooler should have to take a semester of
> linguistics prior to starting their language courses.
>
> -- Paul
That would be so awesome!
- apart from that I was never taught that at all in immersion
(Manitoba, Canada) but they really never taught us the language at
all, just sort of spoke it at us, to this day my brother with a good 5
years of eduction in french still says (with a think accent) "je ne
peux parler francais" and we were never ONCE taught the difference
between connaitre(to know) and savoir(to know)...apparently we were
just supposed to figure it out?
Basically, Canada needs to fix it's second language education system,
because really, it just isn't working, you can't learn a language
effectively by kinda listening to it for ~5h a day while all the while
speaking English to everyone but the teacher, after the age of 5.

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