Re: French
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 23:13 |
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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
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