Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]

I am good at the structure of languages or really just complicated
systems in general, I love mathematics, computers, strategy games,
languages, all kinds of things like that (Don't you work as an engineer
Christophe?). What I find fun about learning languages or designing them
is the grammar more than the actual sounds, I enjoy more experimenting
with the rules. I am also very much left handed, The coordination of my
right hand is bad and I favour my left in most things which need more
than basic coordination. I can pronounce most sounds I've tried now
(with a few exceptions, I've always had difficulty with r sounds
different from the two I learned when I was young: the english r and the
french r since I was taken to france often when I was younger, and I
can't manage ejectives or ... what's the opposite again?). The r sounds
are really a pity, since I'm trying to learn spanish and I just can't
manage a spanish r at all, although I don't have any problems with
dental fricatives anymore, I can lisp with the best of them lol.
 Just thinking... maybe I should learn an asian language lol, since a
lot of them don't even have r, they only have an l. Oh, and I should
avoid irish at all costs.

Chris Bates.

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