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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 05 July 2010 - Volume 02</b><br>
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From: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Obiter Dictum</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gi"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="go"><<a href="mailto:obiterdictum@mail.ru">obiterdictum@mail.ru</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "Language education" 2010.07.05 (01) [EN]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject:Language education <br>
<br>
Ron, <br>
<br>
I must be dense, because I don't follow you at one point and don't see the
problem and another. </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><br>
> But, of course, this would require Lowlands-L members to take advantage of
their networking opportunities more than most of them do now. </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Could you please
explain? </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">> And there would be
international legal issues, such as those related to contract and safety (to
filter out the baddies, not that we should have too many of those), which you
could address better than most of the rest of us. </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">If within the network of the
LL members who know each other for years now, and if on invitation (as
concerns the visa support), what's the problem? Esp. as concerns
contract? </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I though this arrangement
would resolve, apart from teaching, the cost of stay (accomodation and meals).
Kids (if we are talking about kids) must be in their teen at least to
travel alone.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">(As concerns my own kids,
they are 49, 39 and 4, so none of them qualify. Grandchildren,
perhaps, who are in Japan
and America. :-))
<br>
<br>
Regards,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Vlad Lee</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Language education</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Vlad,<br>
<br>
I was “alluding” to the fact that only a minority of Lowlands-L members participate
in discussions and other activities and this way become known to other members,
thus taking advantage of opportunities to network and build trusting relationships.<br>
<br>
Most members are silent and thus anonymous (“known” only to the administrators,
all of whom are obligated to protect their identity as long as those members choose
to be anonymous by being “silent”). Of course, they could contact known members
privately. But I guess this would require more time and effort with regard to building
trust.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">M.-L. Lessing</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gi">LL-L "Language education" 2010.07.05 (01) [EN]</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mailing-List, Website, projects, Facebook, Twitter, now a
children exchange program -- is LL-L growing into a parallel universe? It's all
very well, but I see no need for this -- I love the mailing list, it has my
unfragmented attention; I all but ignore the rest, as I suppose many do
-- like most of us I have a life besides. But most of all: <strong><i>Do
not leave it all for Ron to organize!!</i></strong> Let the next proposal for
new LL-L features come with a full offer to take <strong><i>all the work</i></strong>
on yourselves!!!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hartlich & a bit apprehensive</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marlou/Hamburg</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-----
Original Message ----- </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I thought it could be a great idea to swap kids within LL
for summer, free of charge, for language learning/training purposes. :)<br>
What do the other Lowlanders think?<br>
Regards,<br>
Vlad Lee</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Language education</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks,
Marlou!<br><br>I would definitely <b>not</b> take on such a task myself. If people wanted to do this, it would be entirely up to them to arrange it outside the List.<br><br>I was just bouncing thoughts and ideas around in response to Vlad's suggestion.<br>
<br>I truly appreciate your sentiments.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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