LL-L "Language learning" 2010.09.23 (01) [EN]

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From: Jonny Meibohm <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>

Subject: LL-L "Language learning"



Beste Lowlanners,



even 20 years after the reunion between East and West Germany still is
splitted in two parts as far as English is concerned:

http://www.zeit.de/2010/36/S-Englisch



In special the (Upper) Saxon pupils with their special, exceptional dialect
seem to have great difficulties to learn English, though the standard of
their schools is aspected to be high in the internal German ranking system.



I would like to know if things are running better in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
our Hanne's homeland and the most northern province of the former German
Democratic Republic (until A.D. 1990 "Eastern Germany", behind the Iron
Curtain). Is the influence of Low Saxon still strong enough to make it
easier for the people over there to learn English, as it in my youth had
been in comparison between the North and South of (Western-)Germany?



Allerbest!



Jonny Meibohm
Lower Saxony, Germany



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