Re: CHAT: Perceiving French (was Re: Introducing Paul Burgess etc.)

Isaac Penzev wrote:

> Ktabbe Stephen Mulraney:
>
>
> >Nowadays ('de nos jours' seems wrong for something personal), il faut
> >que je ... aargh! .. que je struggle greatly to exprimer la moindre
> >chose en français... c'est étrange, et triste aussi, car je peut lire
> >facilement la langue, d'habitude vitement et sans trop utiliser la
> >dictionaire.
>
>
> How strange, Stephen! You are not the only one. J'ai précisement la même
> 'experience'. Je peut la lire et comprendre, mais je 'hate' (haïs?) chercher
> chaque seconde mot dans un dictionaaire...
>
> Yitzik
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>

I know the feeling... Though I am thankful that enormous amounts of vocabulary
were crammed into me in school, even if I apparantly forget it - I sometimes
find that I know words that I'm sure I've never seen before. With Irish (which
I was taught from an early age) it's even better - sometimes, listening to
speech, I understand perfectly, without having any idea of what the words that
were said were (and not from context, either). Usually, though, I have to
struggle.

s.




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