Re: OT: semi-OT: bilingual communication
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 10:05 |
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En réponse à Danny Wier <dawier@...>:
>
> Is it possible, or practical, for this to happen in the real world for
> speakers of two more different languages? Like I was speaking English to
> a
> Spanish speaker and he'd be speaking Spanish to me.... ~Danny~
>
I often do that in the laboratory I work in. Everyone does speak English, but I
try to speak Dutch as much as possible, so people speak in Dutch to me. The
thing is, after a while I often have to switch to English because my active
Dutch is too limited to carry on, but often the person I'm speaking to carries
on in Dutch because my passive Dutch is up to the task. It makes conversations
a bit strange ;))) .
Christophe.
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