LL-L 'Language proficiency' 2006.07.20 (02) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 20 July 2006 * Volume 02
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From: 'Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong' <Dutchmatters at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Genetics' 2006.07.19 (03) [E]

Roger says: I don't know whether it is beginning senility, but I often
cannot remember in what language a conversation has been held or what the
original language of a program was.
Hi Roger,
I do believe you, but I do not think it has anything to do with senility.
When you are comfortable with a language it does not demand your attention,
it does not take any effort to decode it and so it becomes like background
music. That does not happen with a language that you experience as foreign.
I remember driving with a Dutch friend from Philadelphia to Montreal. We
were both going to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and
were therefore used to speaking English all the time. The car radio was on,
but we were in deep conversation until all of a sudden the announcer gave
the address of a store in French and we became both aware that we had been
"listening" to a Dutch language program. That was a real odd awareness.
Also, I dream in both Dutch and English, but become only aware what language
it is when a character in the dream uses other than those two. Funny stuff
those languages. Jacqueline 




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