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Actually, it's my fault, because I never managed to learn French My English is decent, my German passable, my French non-existent. So, I don't like going to France...
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Not nearly as bad as we English-speakers have when it comes to speaking other languages. It's shocking how bad most of us are at speaking other languages.
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Thank you .
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As for us, well, we can possibly use Swedish in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and parts of Finlad, but apart from that... We need a second language, and English beeing the only one we are required to learn in school it's no choice really. Even though I took both french and german in school, I couldn't speak german or french if my life dependent on it today. Apart from a few phrases that is |
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Online forums such as this are rather different, in that it's helpful to use a common language, and, like it or not, English is the most wide-spread one. |
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I admire and envy polyglots; but the education system in the UK doesn't do language learning very well imho.
They were undoubtedly the most tedious lessons of my school career; and I can only recall one student out of my entire year who did reasonably well at French and German. I think ghastly school experiences put most people off learning a foreign language for the rest of their lives. |
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But I agree with Harry, I don't like visiting a country where I hardly speak the language. We do go to Hungary, but that's because my mother lives there. |
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Being a teacher who has taught English or Language Arts as we now call it, I can admit that we do the same thing with our own language. When Shannon was much younger, she told me that her band was going to play a concert at the Ep-i-sco-pal church. I had to think about it for a minute and realized that she meant the Episcopal church. She started reading at a very young age and tended to sound new words out phonetically. Zack did the same thing only with a twist. He was convinced the word pint (pronounced with a long i sound) should be pronounced with a short i and refused to pronounce it correctly. Thankfully, at 21, he has now conceded the point, but I was very concerned there for awhile.
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My experience of guiding other people in the study of foreign languages has been, in recent years, that one of the major hurdles that many people have to overcome in learning a foreign language is that they've never been "formally" taught their own language. If you're not equipped with the "vocabulary" to talk about your own language ("verb", "noun", etc), and you don't understand how it "works" from a grammatical perspective, then it's difficult to discuss any other language.
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definitely. i only took one year of latin, and i had the worst teacher ever (she actually made me understand *less* than before her explanations, and she confused me so much i had to redo every lesson at home by myself to understand what we were studying) but i got a lot of insight into both french *and* english thanks to that.
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