> LOL yes you do have a where the hell are you from accent!
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> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:21 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: CF Salary Range
>>> So... I'm studying in Paris and I can speak English,
>>> German and Thai,
>>> but I have a problem with french... heh :) Which of
>>> course, brings
>>> into question his skill with any languages he claims to
>>> speak. I know
>>> little bits of both spanish and french, but I don't
>>> claim
>>> to actually
>>> _speak_ them... Not conversationally anyway... J'aime
>>> parle francais
>>> mais j'aller pas amis parle francais avec moi... and it
>>> really is sort
>>> of a "use it or lose it" sort of thing.
>> Exactly, despite his doctorate.. or I guess his doctoral
>> studies program in
>> English, he was incomprehensible in the language, and
>> couldn't understand
>> Cockney well enough to order food in a store. You have to
>> hear French
>> students in an English class to knwo what I am talking
>> about :) *They*
>> understand each other and thereby reinforce all of the
>> horrendous accents.
> There's nothing worse than a deep-southern Texan trying to
> speak
> french... every consonant on the end of a word is not only
> pronounced
> but emphasized... <<shudder>> Luckily I grew up in Dallas
> which is a
> fairly metropolitan city and watching Sesame Street and
> the Electric
> Company which were filmed in Boston. My parents tell me I
> had a boston
> accent for a while when I was really small. Plus the
> french classes in
> 1st-4th grade which I think I mentioned before. Now I have
> sort of a
> "where the hell are you from" accent.
>> How real-life is what they are learning? To be fair, I am
>> sure he did in
>> fact read English quite well, and maybe even write it.
>> By the way, past a certain level it is sort of like
>> riding
>> a bicycle. There is very little call for French in New
>> Mexico,
>> but I can summon it up when necessary.
> Great Spirit of Notre Dame, I summon thee!
> Oh sorry... not that kind of summoning. :)
> How did you find a CF job in New Mexico anyway? I used to
> go to summer
> camp in Ute Park, about 3 hrs north of Taos.
>> But then I was pretty much immersed in it for years and
>> years.
>> But I have found I can remember my German and Japanese,
>> given enough time
>> and resources. But no, I probably could not order
>> pastries
>> in Japanese :)
>> in German, maybe, if I didn't mind slaughtering the
>> language... but then I
>> am not a doctoral candidate in either language either :)
> der cream puff ? heh :)
> Sad... around here I probably know more people who can
> order pastries
> in Klingon than in German. ... sad sad...
> "We have only one word in our language." ... "What?"...
> "Exactly. I'm
> the missions interpreter. I've learned every earth
> language, except of
> course Esperanto. You can tell that one's going nowhere."
> Sorry... free association getting to me. :)
> What what what?...
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