| Re: lower door hinge [message #246439 is a reply to message #246437] |
Sat, 05 April 2014 03:26   |
Ken Burton
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| appie wrote on Sat, 05 April 2014 03:15 |
Yes Ken English is difficult, so many words and the us/english issue
But luckely as a foreigner I do not have to be correct all the time
As a mulitlanguist I have learned that the trick in speaking languages is to concentrate on what you DO understand and what you KNOW how to say in place of on what you do NOT understand and what you do NOT know how to say
And then just go for it, most people will want to understand you and accept you not being perfect.
So i speak spanish in spain and people will correct me, and I get better. Love it
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My brother speaks 7 languages. He says the trick is to think in the language you are using at the time. When he lived in Germany and I called him on the phone, in the middle of the English conversation he would switch to German without realizing it. When he lived in Iran he would switch to Farsi on the phone with me without realizing it.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] lower door hinge [message #246465 is a reply to message #246446] |
Sat, 05 April 2014 13:17 |
GMC.LES
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You know you've been assimilated when you start dreaming in a different language! I was quite amused the first time it happened to me.
As an anglophone who learned Quebec french as an adult, I found myself often switching formats mid-sentence. Here in the Montreal region, the un-official street lingo uses many english words.
Les Burt
Montreal
1975 Eleganza 26ft
A work in Progress
On Apr 5, 2014, at 10:13 AM, "Robert Mueller" <robmueller@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Ken,
I do the same thing as your brother, I can speak German and French and I when I use either one the grey matter runs in those
languages.
When I was based in Paris I went to see my relatives in Bavaria. Every so often when I'd be conversing with my relatives they would
get a funny look on their faces and I couldn't figure out why.
Finally one evening my cousin asked me; "why are you speaking French to us?"
I realized that the grey matter was thinking if German but when the words didn't come in German; French overrode English!
Regards,
Rob M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Burton
My brother speaks 7 languages. He says the trick is to think in the language you are using at the time. When he lived in Germany
and I called him on the phone, in the middle of the English conversation he would switch to German without realizing it. When he
lived in Iran he would switch to Farsi on the phone with me without realizing it.
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Ken
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| Re: [GMCnet] lower door hinge [message #246505 is a reply to message #246446] |
Sat, 05 April 2014 22:11 |
Ken Henderson
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Imagine what it was like for a good ol' southern boy, born & bred, to be
hauled off to Germany in high school and to wind up studying French,
Spanish, and German at the same time! Too long & boring a story to tell
how that absurdity came about, especially since I've now managed to flush
ALL of it except the S. GA portion (not that much of any one of them ever
stuck very well).
Ken H.
Americus, GA
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Robert Mueller wrote:
> Ken,
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> I do the same thing as your brother, I can speak German and French and I
> when I use either one the grey matter runs in those languages.
>
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