Re: "Usefull languages"

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> >
> > Used to read Newsweek every week(!) for a couple of years - never found
> > the
> > language difficult. Back when I still had English at school, we were
> > reg'larly given articles from similar papers as exercises.
> >
>
>We too, and even in Grande Ecole (which is equivalent to university level)
>we
>had difficulties understanding them.
>
Had we had such difficulties in the _gymnasium_ (roughly = high school), our
teachers would've been very worried. Here at Uni, you're simply expected to
be able to speak and read English without problem.

                                                 Andreas

_________________________________________________________________
Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.
http://www.hotmail.com

Reply