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Re: Learning languages

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Thursday, March 11, 2004, 20:31
* Philippe Caquant said on 2004-03-11 21:13:23 +0100
> Something else also happens sometimes: when you are in > a foreign country, you sometimes read a book (before > sleeping, for ex) that is, neither in your native > language, neither in the country's language. If the > book is a good one, the next day you think about > sentences you read (or deciphered), and you think them > in yet another language, and you have to make a > considerable effort to determine what was the original > language in which you read it, and retranslate it. I > remember I read Kerouac in English in Iceland, and the > next day the sentences came back in German...
Heh, I can never remember which language I read something in, and I'm only truly fluent in Norwegian and English. Swedish and Danish comes for free of course, and I get by, somewhat, in French and German. Btw, don't top-post, snip the sig of the previous poster, and don't include large chunks of previous mail after you've said what you've said. Be nice to uncle Bandwidth! t.

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