>-- >When confronted with a non-native speaker, it helps to s l o w d o w n. >Stewart Stremler > >-- A N D T A L K R E A L L Y L O U D ;)
Stewart's bait lines are mostly better than his messages. >... I found spoken spanish to be nigh >incomprehensible. (I do not percieve any word-breaks in a "native >speaker's" typical conversation.) I find that (for me) in the progress of learning a spoken language, the stages are: jumble; then, able to hear separate words; then, hear it well enough to repeat it back (without understanding); and finally, progress in meaning--what most people think of as "learning the language". Barry -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
