Re: French

This post certainly deserves a thumbs-up for the visual poetry. Which
expresses my thoughts exactly, too. You forgot to add tone marks for the
"Chinese" text though. ;)
Eugene

2009/1/21 Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>

> Hi!
>
> Paul Kershaw writes:
> >...
> > Are you speaking here of comprehensibility in reading, or in
> > hearing? I've studied both German and French. I can read French
> > penny-dreadful fiction at about half my normal English reading
> > speed; German, at about a tenth. Listening to each, though, I can
> > pick up more German words than French words from a movie
> > soundtrack. (Ja, echt!)
>
> Yeah, ?in German, ?every words tends to start with ?a consonant, so
> ?it's somewhat ?easier to ?isolate ?individual words.
>
>
> FrenchonetheotherhandismostlyonewordsoitsreallyhardtolistentothatshowIfeeltoo.
>
> SamewithDutchactuallyalthoughGermanisquiteclosetoDutch.  Reading Dutch
> is no problem at all for a German butlisteningcomprehensionisreallyhard.
>
> And li ste ning to Chi nese is yet a no ther thing.
>
> **Henrik
>