On 13 Oct 00 at 20:26, Arachne4Dos wrote:
>
> Spanish grammar has around 14 tenses as I remember, so perhaps we
> should be thankful English has so (by comparison) few! ISTR names
> along the lines of "Post indicative future participles" and so on. I
> was just glad that Rafael, my tutor said,
>
> "Forget all that rubbish, just use the present, past and possibly the
> future tenses on occasion, and the Spanish people will understand
> and love you for it"
>
> and I've taken his advice ever since. He was right, by the way, most
> Spanish speakers love to hear the Scots mangling their
> pronunciations, apparently we sound verrrrry sexy with it - - - or
> was that funnnnny? I can never quite remember.
>
> Regards
>
> Mel
>
> >From Bonnie Scotland
> EDINBURGH, A Capital City!
>
>
> --from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mel:
Your post makes me remember when I lived in your magnificent city.
I was born in Argentina in 1948. I studied in an english (british)
school in Rosario, were I continue to live.
In 1972, with an electronic engineer title, I went to work for
one year with Hewlet Packard in South Queensferry.
We lived at 60 Pilrigh Str. Edingburg
My wife came with me, she was an english language teacher, she ended
working for The Scotsman.
The funny thing was that when we took our first train from London to
Edinburgh, we could not believe how many Russians were travelling in
the same train, we could not understand why they were so happy, we
could not understand what they were talking.
After one hour, we discovered that they were all scottish fans
returning from a rugby match against those poor english.
And as Spanish speakers, I can tell you that we loved how you
pronounced your english. We loved your city and your country.
Alec
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Alejandro Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rosario Argentina
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