Learning languages

The location.

 

I did Latin for 2 years in school. At the time I didn't really see the
point. However, I'm glad I did on reflection. Later in school, when
studying biology for example, a rudimentary knowledge of latin helped
understand the classification system. Same with A level chemistry.
Throughout the rest of my life my vocabulary has been much better as a
result and I can often work out the meaning of words new to me without
looking them up. This is particularly helpful in my current milieu which is
full of epistemological polyhistors and positivists with their pseudo-
scientific narratives.

 

Perhaps not _always_, but certainly a lot:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teachers-value-20100815,0,2695044.story

 

I queried her pronunciation and she said her teacher had told them it
was OK like that.

Are you suggesting that's NOT the teacher's fault?

 

thank you Mr Murray

 

I can second the Rosetta series. I've been using the Spanish course and
found it very educational (& fun). however, the speech recognition has
been a failure. i've tried separate mics but now i'm beggining to think
my netbook is too slow. i'll try it on my PC next if you rate it.

___________. GT: phinlee1

 

I reckon you only have one side of the story. And thick students getting
the wrong end of the stick and then saying "But that's what the teacher
told us" is pretty much a cliche.

 

Cab's French is very good. His accent is strange though (doesn't sound
English at all).

 

You only need one instruction manual of whatever made in China to
realize that zillions people are attuned to Western languages.

 

I was told I was dropping French after my mock 'O' level disaster (1)
in 1975.

(1) I decided not to bother with the oral exam because mine was
scheduled for straight after dinner and I knew the examiner would
smell cigarette smoke on me and drop me in the shit.

 

How was that calculated?

Counting Google Groups return for author:Nige in this group?

 

Erm, I'm not sure if I'm being whooshed here...

 

'llo there. You do know you've got mail from me, eh?

 

You've just been whooshed.

 

<vbg>

 

I'm me. No new posting name. Just someone who hasn't posted much
before.

Have posted *very* occasionally in the past, but God knows under what
monicker.

Couldn't teach at all.

And couldn't control a class full of Nuns, either.

No, probably before my time.

Seem to remember a female music teacher that we all fancied, who in
hindsight was a bit of a munter.

And a female drama teacher who most certainly wasn't

Both shit teachers though.

 

Champ - were we at school together at Elmbridge Primary in the late
60s, or did you attend a different school?

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Fucking hell, mate. Don't feel too good about it, I'm world reknowned
for having a shite memory.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

I had Miss Lofthouse, and she alone was responsible for me failing
French [1]

Paul.

[1] Not because she was rubbish, but because she was absolutely
stunning [2]
[2] Bloody poor show putting her in with a class of pimply 14 year
olds ... :/

 

Ah, I was whooshed. As to your question, probably. They tend to go right
over my head most of the time.