On Thursday 11 October 2007 00:50:09 J Figueroa G - Gmail wrote:

(I dont speak and read english so much)

Don't worry about it ("No worries!" here in Australia).

I'd just be guessing if I _chose_ your native language as Spanish or something like it (Casablanca?), & would have to patiently spend time (days or weeks) learning to _speak_ the language in order to say anything more useful than "hello."

If it's Latin-based I could possibly blunder my way through most of it, but it would be entertaining for you (or any other onlooker) to watch me try that.

My knowledge outside of English is almost zero. I was born in Canada of Australian parents, & promptly (2 years) imported "back" into Australia again.

I have friends from various parts of Africa, Peru, Laos, Brazil, France, Italy, Poland etc but that hasn't been enough to prompt me to learn another language. Oh, except for C, ForTran, BASIC, PHP, Pascal, Modula2, assembler...

Cheers; Leon

i am hearing impaired, which normally doesn't cause too many problems but in foreign languages it is a disaster. i showed a fair amount of talent in high school for languages (especially the one no one speaks, latin) but by the time i got to college and they put me in a language lab (tapes of people speaking the french language in 1966), i had a problem. i could do the written work just fine but those labs were a nightmare. after i finished french in college (my written exam grade bringing up my oral exam grade), i was done with languages. the way this persists in modern day life is that if someone speaks with a foreign accent, i right away have trouble hearing (understanding) them. my oncologist is from india and i have to look at my husband and get the translation about 1/3 of the time from him. my oncologist's accent is not even very pronounced. i just tell people about my hearing problem ASAP so no one gets insulted with my needing translations.

i live in the midwest usa so sound pretty much like what you hear on american tv and film. however, stick me in the deep south usa and they might as well be speaking a foreign language too as the same hearing problems crop up. (my father's entire family was from new england though so i grew up hearing that accent so can still understand it). this is hereditary. it is about a 40% loss, both ears. the chemo gave me ringing ears too so hearing aids only amplify the ringing so are of little help. as you can probably imagine, i am very strong visually, with the written word and with computers, probably partially in compensation for this disability. when i was growing up (1950s and 1960s usa) hearing problems of my sort weren't even recognized. you had to be outright deaf to get help in the schools. so i think i was compensating at a very early age with visual, written words, etc.,. my audiologist told me the first time he tested me as an adult that i did the best job of compensating of anyone he'd ever met (he had to have me face the wall to get a true test result so i would stop compensating). i listen to music and watch dvds with headphones so i don't drive other people bats with my volume. so for any of you aspiring to foreign language talents, it sure helps if you have normal hearing if you want to converse with someone in one. ironically, my uncle was so good at foreign languages that the army made him a translator-interrogator in Italy during WWII. He could pick languages up in a snap, both orally and written, but he also did not inherit the family hearing disability. he also didn't have any visual imagery talent so i guess things have a way of evening out.

carol

On 10/10/07, Leon Brooks GIMP wrote:

On Thursday 11 October 2007 00:50:09 J Figueroa G - Gmail wrote:

(I dont speak and read english so much)

Don't worry about it ("No worries!" here in Australia).

I'd just be guessing if I _chose_ your native language as Spanish or something like it (Casablanca?), & would have to patiently spend time (days or weeks) learning to _speak_ the language in order to say anything more useful than "hello."

If it's Latin-based I could possibly blunder my way through most of it, but it would be entertaining for you (or any other onlooker) to watch me try that.

My knowledge outside of English is almost zero. I was born in Canada of Australian parents, & promptly (2 years) imported "back" into Australia again.

I have friends from various parts of Africa, Peru, Laos, Brazil, France, Italy, Poland etc but that hasn't been enough to prompt me to learn another language. Oh, except for C, ForTran, BASIC, PHP, Pascal, Modula2, assembler...

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