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Re: Jack Keane, slightly {OT}

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From: Pixel "#~
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:01
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Earlier DG muttered:

>I've been accused of having an Antwerpian accent in French. And I don't 
>bloody speak French. I can fake Antwerpian though.
>
>I was also under investigation why I managed to get good grades for 
>Dutch, great grades for English and a fine collection of zero's for 
>French. They didn't understand that I didn't learn a language in school, 
>but by watching TV, like the BBC or listening to music. I also watched 
>French TV like TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3, but it went too fast to follow, 
>there was no way to discern what tense they used and when it came to 
>writing there were all these letters you didn't pronounce or had to 
>write extra.
>
>I guess the biggest problem was that you had to learn loads of words by 
>heart for French (something I didn't have to in Dutch or English: I 
>already knew most). I never got to knowing how to use them: I already 
>had a zero because if I managed to spell them correctly, I put the wrong 
>le or la in front of them or put the words in the wrong order.

I suck at all languages I took, Dutch, Frisian, English, French, Latin
and German.
But Dutch and English were the only one I could talk my way out off...


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From: "Pixel  \"#~" <jjwweerrff@phil.uu.nl>
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Subject: Re: Jack Keane, slightly {OT}
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