LL-L "Language proficiency" 2005.03.04 (01) [E]

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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.03.01 (01) [D/E]

Gary Taylor wrote:

> Hope this helps. If it's any consolation, I know a few non-native English
> speakers whose accents are so good that people who don't know them think
> they are English, and they still slip up on tenses. Although English is a
> fairly easy language to learn at the start, it gets a lot more complex
> later
> on.
>
> Gary

Hi, Gary,

it's no consolation at the end: though I grew up with Low-Saxon as my second
mother language I am still frustrated. Just today I had been in a group of
older, in LS-language grewn-up people, and I (about 25 years younger as
them) felt especially imperfect when they told me: "Oh- Du sprichst für Dein
Alter aber ein gutes 'Platt' ". They are so much more common with it, their
mouthes are better suited, better trained and at the end their brain, their
kind of thinking has always been used this way. I'll never be able to reach
them in their originality, their "Urigkeit" and their way to see, to feel
themselves as this is aspected.
Languages are in most times a special, very individual way of live, I fear.

Greutens/sincerely

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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