Re: French

On 2009-01-23 Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets wrote:
> So I'm very happy to hear that at least one native
> speaker has a similar experience. My husband (native
> Dutch speaker) tells me that he understands the basics of
> Swedish,
This native speaker of Swedish, near-native speaker of
German and competent L2 speaker of English has the
opposite experience: while I can make out written
Dutch fairly well I can't understand spoken Dutch
even if my life depended on it.

/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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  "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
  à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil
  ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
  c'est qu'elles meurent."           (Victor Hugo)

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