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Skriven 2006-06-26 01:01:31 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
  Kommentar till text 32532 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
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Hello Ward.

26 Jun 06 03:01, you wrote to Janis Kracht:

 WD> Janis,

 >> I suppose it depends where one goes... there are good teachers and
 >> bad teachers all over the world.  I've only known good language
 >> teachers. Ron had a very bad Latin teacher in high school, but then
 >> he had a great one that taught German at Johns Hopkins University.

 WD> How do you know? How does Ron know? Did he ever have any need for
 WD> Latin? Did he ever live and work out of Germany?

 WD> What one gets at school is a foundation to build on. With that
 WD> foundation one is ready to start learning the language and that only
 WD> happens when one is immersed in it without any salvation backchannel
 WD> to switch to English when "the other thing" doesn't work.

 WD> I had a super English teacher but the day I got dumped in New York all
 WD> those years ago for the first time, I noticed quickly enough there is
 WD> a difference between school-language and everyday-language.

 WD> This makes it virtually impossible for an American to learn a foreign
 WD> language quite well because most anyone abroad speaks enough English
 WD> to switch to it and have a conversation.

 WD> I've seen same-age language programmes in the US and overhere and,
 WD> pardon me, but the way people are instructed there in 'foreign speak'
 WD> is a joke. That's not an accusation but just stating a fact.

 WD> My nearly 15yr old daughter is fluent in Dutch (of course, her native
 WD> language), French and English with very good notions of German. Her
 WD> same aged American friend Tara (they differ in age by 2 weeks) is
 WD> unable to write error-free in just English and she's top of her class
 WD> overthere.

 WD> You guys have English and for most that's enough overthere.

 WD> We're so much better. Live with it. ;-)


    I truely wish you could be on the recieving end or your own attiitude.
Why is it Ward that you feel the need to continually point out how much
better (IYHO) you and yours are over there? I have no problem with any opinion
that you choose to have. You often have valid points in your statements but
then you negate those points by packaging them in needless bravado.

 WD>  \%/@rd

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Jeff

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