Re: PimsleurApproach language courses

At 07:34 PM 11/11/03 +0100, you wrote:
>I can only say I'm disconcerted to see Swedish on their list of "Exotic"
>languages ...
But do you have any idea how difficult it is to find Danish language
learning material for English speakers?  It's only slightly easier to find
Swedish language courses.  (And those do me no good, of course.  I kind of
like to teach my children Danish...It would be easier if I knew any Danes
locally; that would give us the chance to practice.)

I think it gets classified as exotic because there aren't that many
speakers and there aren't a lot of English speakers who want to learn
it.  Japanese, on the other hand, has a lot of native speakers and there
are a lot of reasons that English speakers want to learn it.  But I'm with
you that it's a little disconcerting.  Danish is so closely related to
English that it was a lot easier to learn than almost any other language I
could have chosen (although I didn't know that at the time I said I wanted
to go to Denmark.)

Now, Ojibwe, that's exotic.

Isidora

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