On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Radhika, Y. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have bee a student of modern Greek for the last three years and it is > bloody hard. Strangely the thing that has given me the greatest satisfaction > is being able to read a cheesy detective story in the language! Nothing strange about this Radhika! Being able to read pulp fiction, or poetry, of a language, where the most idiomatic and slang usages occur...is (I think) the acid test of comfort with, and command over, that language.
