> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 03:43 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Language refreshers > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:34:10PM -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote: > > > > (Not that I can speak it very well at all. But a few words, yes.) > > Ja hetter Jeffrey. Ja ilkee mei bile an utenfor. > > That doesn't look (to me) much like Norwegian, but I don't > know whether that's because it's Nynorsk (I've been mainly > learning Bokmaal), or because you've got your languages mixed up. :) > > Jeg heter Paul. (I'm not sure what the second one is saying.)
Hmmm.. I'm probably all turned around.. I have a "smattering" of vocab :D
"My name is Jeffrey. I like my car and the outdoors."
*sigh* I could sign it to you.. if only you had an ASL compatible font
> Kind of in relation to the earlier question, it comes back to > you. Starts off slowly, but because you're refreshing it > rather than having to form the pathways for the first time, > it's much easier. (I found that when I had to go to France > about 6-7 years after learning French at school. Not exactly > going to give a speech, mind.)
*nod* I went to paris in '98 and found I could get around the city perfectly fine, but since then had zero opportunity to use it.
-j-
Brainstorming time. Do you think your language skills would keep up if you could listen to the <whichever> language being spoken, with subtitles (if video) or translations(audio); or would you have to speak it to keep up or both or neither? I'm considering a "This is what the internet is supposed to be!" type moment. Maybe it's out there, I don't have time to look: I'm thinking of a web site that has three or four ten minute segments each at successive difficulty levels. You could sit at work and watch them. Maybe PBS could produce them, use video from Seaseme Street up through Nova and just dub them into different languages. Make new videos once a week or month, keep the past videos.
If you need to speak it, a phone service, you call a number and converse on some pre-arranged subject with a native speaker.
Would never be as profitable as phone sex lines, but if done correctly could be a useful tool.
Kevin T. - VRWC Right now I'm speaking cold, have not been to Asia
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