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Re: Learning languages

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, March 12, 2004, 11:48
In a message dated 2004:03:12 04:51:50 AM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

>Based on my experience as a learner, teacher and observer of learners of >Indonesian, I would say yes-- it's an easy language to get into quickly, >and Indonesians (maybe not Malaysians) are so accustomed to hearing a huge >range of good<-->bad spoken language that they are very forgiving of
foreigners'
>efforts.
Seems that according to all reports, neighboring pidgin/creoles like Bislama and Tok Pisin are also likewise quite forgiving. Esp'ly Bislama. And we are talking of one of the _densest_, per capita, linguistically rich & diverse regions of the world... OBCONLANG: I gotta figger out how-to have this quality in goomeelego without goin' too gonzo with its mangalang character or upsetting its odd Novial-like balancing act of naturalism and auxlang-ish artifice. = ¡ gw'araa legooset caacaa ! ¡ reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo ! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!] In a message dated 2004:03:12 07:19:51 AM, dansulani@BEZEQINT.NET writes:
> I more or less agree with what's already been said by everyone. >Of course the best way of learning a lang is to be fully immersed in it >24/7 in a country where it is spoken.
Yepyep, "go native" like bein' thrown into the deep end of the pool to learn how to swim. Swim or sink, baby...
> But even then, you can't learn to get around in the language by merely
reading >books that teach the formal language. In America, only formal language I _hear_ nowadays is in academia. And even that is short supply... <SNijP>
> This is just an example, but IMHO, it holds true for quite a bit of >lang _use_.
I would venture to even say it is the general norm of everyday language & lexicon. But being ever-cautious gamblin' sort, I am not bettin' on this... as language use is more-than-quite situational and contextual.
>The books, tapes, etc. usually just give you a basic handle on the lang. >For actual use, you need to investigate areas of lang that usually don't >show up in formally prepared materials. For example, >when learning Hebrew, in order to get a wide vocabulary, >I read things that, today, I won't allow into my house!
ROTFLMAO so true. Which reminds me ... CHRISTOPHE!!!!: You know of any manga that is in Romaji? (I mighta asked this before, but I don't recall diddley in this regard... I plead hyper-monkey-brainfart-ness due to viral infection of the liver [BTW my PSA of the day: May is Hepatitis C Awareness Month...be a Hep Cat, screw the hype, and get the raw facts...cdc.gov...liverfoundation.org])
>You may not choose to use that type of language, (but then again, you never >know when you _will_ need it) but when others do, it may be >important to know what they are saying.
/shapeshift/timewarp ::imitatin' gravelly cigarette-damaged voice of a hard-fought Resistance partisan circa WW2:: Tres bien, mon ami. It mayhaps be as important as one's own life and limbs... or one's entire ethnic group or country... or even humankind at large... /shapeshift/timewarp ::imitating bi-lingual Irgun fighter circa 1937-1948:: Never forget, never forgive, never again! Hayom, Chayim!
>likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a. > >A word is an awesome thing.
Word that immediately popped up into my screamin'-streamin'-MonkeyBrainies: _Golem_. ::WiCKeD GRiM GRiN:: ---///// __/_//_/ __/_// in the Kali Yuga Yera of 2004 CE, year 4702 of the Huangdi era, Year of the Wooden Monkey, _Jia-Shen_... Nom de Guerre: Hanuman Zhang NickName: "Stitch" WOGeR (Wiley Oriental Gentleperson/Rogue) BBC (BritishBornChinaman) Founding Member/Music Editor <A HREF="http://www.boheme-magazine.net">=> boheme-magazine.net</A> Avatar of Sun Wu K'ung, a.k.a. Sun Wukong, a.k.a _Ma-Lau_ ("Monkey King") a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers" the One & Only Real King Kong!!! http://www.uglychinese.org/war.htm ¡¡¡ TricksterShapeShifterIncarnate !!! >^..^< ';' ;P~~~ => om hung hanumatay rudratmakai hung phat <= mantra to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey TricksterGod ==> Ko nahi janat hai jag mein kapi, sankat mochan naam tiharo <== [Who does not know that in this world oh monkey, thy name is one which liberates one out of all problems]. "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... Imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson I Am A Bird, don't try to tell my wings where to fly. "I rather be whole than good." - Carl Jung "It's also a rule of thumb that exceptional talents come at a cost..." - Richard C. Cytowic, medical expert on synaethesia "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire <= thee prIs ov eXistenZ iz aetern'l warfaer 'N' kreativ playf'llnizz... => "Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point." - Kenneth Rexroth googolgigglabyte goegolgiechelbijt - of - met een vette megagrijns GoogolGekicherByte googolrisibyte ===> el byte de la risita de googol googolrisadinhabyte ===> o byte de risadinha de googol googolspassoctet guugoIllolbijt gugolhihibajt gugolngisibayt okukolkikikol egúgelegigalibaith kiletstroknolyadgigabaiti cimacimakekehapi baitakhakhweifayatrauni ufi'auayinisuguguluarkhar pokatra oemadroabhethetre inarevuta yhiyhayhake nawyo AnekoMeppathmoTtilvatelmDiggulgyttahat va'i utne tuktukt'ishushukuko`g tuk go`go`o`gwgaga ggsngngsbd [gugulaNexebidi]

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