the wonder of it all...
the wonder of it all...
wow...so many great insights about language, culture and life experiences in this thread!!
thank you ossifan, colinh & kevin m for mentioning children's books.
🙂 it reminds me of some yet-to-be taken advice from solares about my trying to improve my spanish. he recommended i start reading spanish language comic books. now that i think about, i think i see why reading those and children's books would be very helpful. over the past year or so i've taken to reading children's books to my five year old grand daughter. the illustrations generally reflect what the text is about.
aarrgghh!! d-ohh!! thank you again , solares. next time i'm home i'll pick up a few. kevin m, i'll try to catch some spanish language soaps next time i'm home. meanwhile i'll keep tuning in to spanish langauage radio. i occasionally visit a couple of french photographers websites and that sort of helps. russian photography sites remind me how little of the cyrillic alphabet i remember and how paltry my vocabulary & grammar skills are.
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i did discover (a generally) french language station on my xm radio (#100) and i catch
some of the lyrics and some of the text as it scrolls across my reciever.
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on my most recent trip to L.A. i also discovered a local fm radio chinese station...perhaps it was also vietnamese and a few other asian languages as well. whew...i think i understood about ten words.
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francisco: aquí está una expresión realmente provechosa en italiano: dove è la stanza da bagno? o : dove il gabinneto?
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kevin m: one of my favorite movies is the french language version of "cyrano" with gerard depardieu. first off, it's a great movie and secondly, with the english sub-titles (and pause and rewind) it's great way to "see" and hear the language.
joe: i am
still trying to get english wright...i mean right.
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