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Re: OT: semi-OT: bilingual communication

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, January 24, 2003, 7:00
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:04:46 -0600 Danny Wier <dawier@...>
writes:
> 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've seen/heard this happen with children of immigrants here in the USA. The parents will speak in their native language, and the children will respond in English. -Stephen (Steg) "aru."