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What's in a language?
Tigger Posted Feb 21, 2000
narrow minded ? - please qualify
I speak bad french, but I get by in France - my wife speak good german (though she won't admit it's good) - my 'bad' french is a product of the crass way the British teach french at school, followed by a lot of work (by me) trying to make the conversation thing work. I'm painfully & embarrassingly aware of how lousily I speak french (& spell english 
), especially in comparison to my european colleagues.
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What's in a language?
KimotoCat Posted Feb 22, 2000
No offence intended by my statement. What I am saying is narrow-mindedness by a national scope. The government will not spend oodles of money on educating people to speak better foreign languages - simply because they do not have to!
In Denmark we most definitely have to study other languages in order to make ourselves known within the international society.
So, as you can see, it is in fact quite complicated.
P.S. I also speak a lousy French. So lousy that I flunked my exam to be precise... 
What's in a language?
Krunchy Posted Feb 23, 2000
I speak lousy french and german, but I passed my exams. I don't expect for even 1 minute to be able to hold a conversation with either countries ppl in their native language
What's in a language?
formerly known as: "He who doesn't call himself `fisk` amymore" Posted Feb 23, 2000
I've never passed a french, nor german exam, I guess that's because I've never had any... and I don't speak a word french
I've had an English exam though, and I passed, wee!
I agree with KimotoCat, how would danes and norwegians do, internationally speaking, if we couldn't speak at least one "world-language"? but we can, not all of us, but pretty damn close!
yup.
What's in a language?
KimotoCat Posted Feb 24, 2000
Det er nemlig rigtigt!
Svaret er rett!
That's right!
Das ist war!
C'est... erh...
Q.E.D.
What's in a language?
Tigger Posted Feb 28, 2000
Yes, well that seems to sum things up exactly.
How was your weekend ?
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What's in a language?
KimotoCat Posted Mar 1, 2000
Boring - my boyfriend came down with a cold.
And as they say that lovers 
should share things - now I have it!
What's in a language?
Tigger Posted Mar 1, 2000
Well, my daughters are taking it in terns to be ill - so i can't afford to be ill myself ......
Tigger
What's in a language?
KimotoCat Posted Mar 1, 2000
Don't worry about that.
From where I'm standing, red nosed, wet eyed, fatigued and generally feeling bad, you're not missing anything that major.
What's in a language?
Tigger Posted Mar 1, 2000
been there, done that !
much sympathy, a heavy cold is a real downer. You should tell your boyfrienf to be more careful ..... 
Tigger |\/\/\/\/|
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