Re: I'm back, sort of
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 12:16 |
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At 19:11 22.9.2003 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>Similar but different, involving L2-L3 interference. Although I probably
>knew (and used to speak) Spanish better than Indonesian, in 1974 the
>Indonesian was much fresher and more prevalent in my mind. I had the unusual
>opportunity then to spend a weekend in Monterrey, Mexico, giving TESOL
>students a quickie contrastive analysis of the two (in Spanish, with
>occasional resort to English). (It's a long story, but there was a
>possibility the school was going to have to teach Spanish to a bunch of
>Indonesians.). Every time I came to a past or perfect tense in Spanish, I
>wanted to stick in _ya_ 'already', based on Indonesian _sudah_ 'already',
>which corresponds to those tenses.
Actually that is how Spanish and Portuguese "creoles" in Asia
(used to?) form their past tense: _eu já cantá_ etc.
/BP 8^)
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