Re: my grammar
| From: | Rodlox R <rodlox@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 1, 2005, 14:34 |
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>From: Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: my grammar
>Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:08:38 +0000
>I'm saving to spend a month or two in the basque country this coming
>summer.... the only problem I have is that I think that most people
>would choose to speaker to a foreigner in Spanish or English if they
>speak it, so I might have difficulty persuading them to speak Basque to
>me. Much as how when you go to the Netherlands everyone seems really
>keen to speak English to you even if you try to speak their language to
>them.
but from what I've heard, most people appreciate it when someone (at least
initially) speaks to them in their (the former, not the latter)'s own
language, rather than their (the latter, not the former)'s own language.
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