LL-L 'Language diversity' 2006.12.31 (09) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L - 31 December 2006 - Volume 09
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From: Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L 'Language diversity' 2006.12.31 (02) [E]

In message
<57c981290612311028x72da0cc5q9c447f9b0d12c1c0 at mail.gmail.com>,
Lowlands-L List <lowlands.list at gmail.com> i,e, Sandy writes
>I'd be circumspect with those sort of books, Paul. I used various such
>books as my French was getting more advanced, but nothing any of them
>said seemed to hold any water, not even in Paris. I think that for a
>non-native, the path to becoming 'typical' in a language is to learn
>the
>straightforward stuff at home, anything fancy really has to be picked
>up
>'in the field'. There's a huge danger of just sounding daft to
>everybody
>- like someone from Germany with an underdeveloped English accent
>arriving in London and trying to speak like Eastenders. Everybody would
>_much_ rather a foreigner speak a fairly standard form of the language,
>at least until he's lived long enough somewhere to sound like he's from
>there!

I hesitate to chip in, with your ability to learn languages, and my
limited experience, but I think this applies only to _speaking_, not to
_listening_. When learning languages, I think it important that people
are exposed to a range of pronunciations (or at least, I find it
helpful, and I have a dear friend from Luxembourg who was fluent in
English  was absolutely flummoxed when addressed in accented English
from Lancashire).

Cheers,

Pat
(new year's plan: learn enough Japanese to get by)
--
Pat Reynolds

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