Re: "Usefull languages"
| From: | Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 22:50 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Now it's been nearly two months I stopped studying Dutch (and didn't use
it as much as I
> would have liked) and I until now lost nothing of what I learnt.
> Learn only by readin writing needs constant training, or you'll lose your
knowledge very
> soon. Learn by speaking and you can discontinue for a month or two without
> losing anything, and it will take hardly one lesson to get back
> to the level you were before stopping. If that's not an important
difference...
I must agree with Christophe. I learnt English, German and French starting
at elementary school purely through usage: learning children's rhymes,
engagin in conversation etc. Only after a few years did I learn my first
grammar. Now, it has been 8 years since I last had French and 6 years since
I last had German, but I can still speak and understand French at a basic
level, and speak and understand German reasonably well.
Maarten van Beek
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