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Originally Posted by maianhvk
I read somewhere that the best way (place?) to learn a language is in bed...
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it is certainly a very entertaining endeavor
when we started, we used a little note book. I wrote what I had to say in English and she wrote her stuff in French. Shuffling it across the kitchen table.
It is actually a very good exercise to learn organization and management of thoughts and concepts. You have something to say and you want to distill it in very few words, possibly simple words.
I remember our first date. We had dinner and she ordered artichokes. The conversation was delirious.
She knew some English of course, being a Montreal belle, but her generation grew with the refusal of it. She never learned it. When she came to Italy she learned Italian in no time, but we kept using French.
I got French in few months of living together. I think it is the best language for the soul and for loving.