Re: Learning languages
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 11, 2004, 20:31 |
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* 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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