On 4/13/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
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> * Distinguish between pairs of words like "savoir" and "connaître"
> (which isn't the best example since many other European languages
> distinguish these, at least the ones I'm familiar with, although they're
> both "to know" in English). (How does French express "to know how", by
> the way?)
"savoir"
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> Is there anything else that comes to mind? It's been 25 years since I
> studied French in high school, so I don't remember much.
>
I would say let French guide the grammar but be prepared to adopt a
LOT of vocabulary from Japanese, whose phonotactics match Tiki's much
better.
---larry