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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language learning" 2002.11.21 (02) [E]

>From: Gary Taylor <gary_taylor_98 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Language Learning

>Too true. I've now been in Germany for nearly two
>years, and can speak the language pretty well, albeit
>with a few mistakes, but it's very rare that I don't
>understand what's been said to me. However I still get
>people speaking English to me as soon as they hear my
>dodgy English accent, and especially if I haven't
>heard what they said acoustically and ask them to
>repeat it, without meaning that I haven't understood
>because my German's not good enough.

Your German's so good that it even influences your English (I think,
CMIIW): Dieses "das habe ich akustisch nicht verstanden" erscheint
mir ein typisch deutscher Ausdruck zu sein. From my Dutch
background, I never really understood what exactly they meant by it,
but you made it clearer to me now.

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Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>
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