CHAT: a tisket, a tasket, a lingbook in my basket

>From: "Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@...>
>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 06:29:04 +0100
>
>........
> >What's weirder is that I still collect Teach Yourself books and similar
> >language texts even though I know I'll never have the time to learn all
> >these languages. I must have nearly 40 languages by now, and I'm fluent
>in
> >none of them!
>
>That's not weird - that exactly what I do!!
>But - darn it - a quick count along my shelves gives only 36 - must try to
>reach 40   :)
>
> >Even when I was trying to learn them, I rarely got past the
> >seventh chapter in any of those books.
>
>I tend to dip & browse and try to get the 'overall picture' and 'feel' of
>the language and then to get grips with its more exotic features.  But I'm
>rarely methodical.  Much depends also on how the book was written.
>
Well, not to brag er nuthin, but I've got over 135 different langs in my
library.  And I'm still buying more  (Ooh! I don't have anything on xxx.
And yyy?  How often do you find anything on that one?  Oooh and that one has
a pretty binding.  And oops, paycheck's gone!)

I'm not even sure I know what methodical means! :-)

Adam Walker


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