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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Read my post carefully- I make no reference to to LEARNING another language, just speaking and listening to it. I can understand written French fairly well, but my stammer gets very bad when I try to speak it.
The easiest thing about Latin/Greek is you don't have to do speaking or listening: it's all written, which is how I do shit best.
(, Mon 20 Sep 2010, 13:26, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
Trying to listen to a Forrin talking Forrin at you is, I've always found, the hardest part of learning Forrin. I certainly come away with the impression that my French is a lot better when it's written down and I have time to read it, re-read it, re-re-read it, find a dictionary, re-re-re-read it and hazard a guess before throwing the dictionary at a passing Frenchman in frustration.
(, Mon 20 Sep 2010, 13:29, Reply)
(as demonstrated by BobWhatEverHisNameIs, I obviously can't tell when people are being facetious)
The best thing about reading is you can run the word through your mental database and see what matches with other words you know and the meaning of them, then hazard a guess. And there's always the possibility that if you're deaf as a post you mishear and end up confused.
(, Mon 20 Sep 2010, 13:32, Reply)
'Deaf as a post' is an excuse I use a lot myself, and that's just while having conversations in English.
(, Mon 20 Sep 2010, 13:37, Reply)
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