"Brenda Ann" wrote:

Not to mention flammable and inflammable..

Not to mention boned, deboned, and boneless.

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In article , t1000
@webtv.net says...
The Tactic? Learning a foreign language! That's it. I know, we Americans
hate 'learning' stuff we don't NEED to know, unless it's 'entertaining'.
Eg. we resisted the more logical Metric System tooth and nail, 60% of us
have never read a single book after High School, and we spend an average
of 21 hrs. a week watching TV. So, When you MAKE time to learn a new
language, which one have you always wanted to learn to enhance the
enjoyment of your hobby?

For those interested in learning another language, I highly recommend
the Pimsleur tapes/CDs. They're designed for learning to speak (as
opposed to read) another language, with primarily travellers in mind.
The lessons each run about 30 minutes, so they fit well into the commute
time for many people. Thiry minutes a day for a couple months and you
can be conversant, if not fluent, in another language.

Obligatory disclaimer: I have no connection with any company marketing
or producing Pimsleur materials. I'm just a happy customer.

-- Jay

The Pimsleur tapes are very good, and I think they're also available on
CD. 'Funny thing is that studying languages actually becomes EASIER if
you 'group' them from, for example, their Latin roots. So say if you
know Spanish, Italian is fairly easy because alot of the words are the
same or very similar, and so on...

Tony Meloche wrote in message Es correcto, BA. And next to English (and I'm not positive English
is #1), Spanish is easily the language heard most often on SW around the
world.
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And around United States welfare offices.
Melvin

I took French and Spanish in college, and I failed both miserably. I could
usually decipher a small amount of meaning from some simple written phrases,
but it was just impossible for my brain to extract anything from spoken
conversational French or Spanish. If I heard something like "heartache", my
mind would process that word as "har dake" and then it would start trying to
remember the meaning of "har" and the meaning of "dake". It was a horribly
embarrassing experience for me. Still, many nights, I would still sit by my
radio, listening intently to French or Spanish stations, hoping to be able
to understand what I heard. Twenty years later, it remains a totally
impossible effort for my feeble mind..

I really commend anyone who can speak and understand more than one language.
Nice job!

Tom Sevart wrote:

"Vic Martinez" wrote in message
...
So, When you MAKE time to learn a new
language, which one have you always wanted to learn to enhance the
enjoyment of your hobby?


I've been meaning to learn Espanol so that I can understand the many
Spanish-language outbanders all over the HF bands. Just really haven't had
a lot of time, though, but might see if there's a language course at the
local college. Learning Spanish would also help with my job since we do
have a lot of Mexican immigrants who don't speak English.

--
Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc



That's basically what my wife and I did. We both taught for years in
a school district that had a large influx of migrant students every
spring and fall. There were always a few of them that we called "ni una
palabras" - they didn't speak one word of English. And we were
responsible for *teaching* them! It was a big help (we just studied it
at home with tapes), and later on, as we traveled in Spanish-speaking
parts of the world, it was also very helpful. No time spent learning
another language is ever wasted, IMO.

Tony


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"Vic Martinez" wrote in message
...
So, When you MAKE time to learn a new
language, which one have you always wanted to learn to enhance the
enjoyment of your hobby?


I've been meaning to learn Espanol so that I can understand the many
Spanish-language outbanders all over the HF bands. Just really haven't had
a lot of time, though, but might see if there's a language course at the
local college. Learning Spanish would also help with my job since we do
have a lot of Mexican immigrants who don't speak English.

--
Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc

In article ,
says...
I took French and Spanish in college, and I failed both miserably. I could
usually decipher a small amount of meaning from some simple written phrases,
but it was just impossible for my brain to extract anything from spoken
conversational French or Spanish. If I heard something like "heartache", my
mind would process that word as "har dake" and then it would start trying to
remember the meaning of "har" and the meaning of "dake". It was a horribly
embarrassing experience for me. Still, many nights, I would still sit by my
radio, listening intently to French or Spanish stations, hoping to be able
to understand what I heard. Twenty years later, it remains a totally
impossible effort for my feeble mind..

I've found it helps to watch TV news broadcast in the language you're
trying to learn. (Assuming you can find such a broadcast.) The
announcers usually speak slowly and enunciate clearly, comparatively.
On most of the stories there is also video to provide context to the
words being spoken. At the very least it gets you conditioned to
hearing the language spoken in an environment where you aren't going to
be embarrassed and you have some chance of figuring out what they're
talking about. You're also not going to be worrying about how to
respond... unless you enjoy talking back to the TV.

-- Jay

If you come to America you better learn English.. because if I went to
Mexico I would be expected to learn Spanish. Same deal.


Ahhh... but your a racist if you expect them to speak english.. racist
racist *ugh*


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(RedOctober90) wrote in message . com...
If you come to America you better learn English.. because if I went to
Mexico I would be expected to learn Spanish. Same deal.


Ahhh... but your a racist if you expect them to speak english.. racist
racist *ugh*



This is the way I look at it. It is WAY easier to learn a language
when you are little. Communication would be so much easier if a
majority of the population spoke 3-4 of the most common languages.
After all there is no formal national language in the US.

Eric