Accents

[Gość: al]

www.nature.com/nsu/030901/030901-12.html

"jumbled word-drawer"

[Gość: m]

"..with a highly defficient system of rifling through it"

Certainly myself...

read this one too?

www.nature.com/nsu/990617/990617-6.html
thanks, enjoyed
I have to admit to a cultural/social discrimination I usually fall prey to.
Out of choice of course.
I choose my mates by the accents, ie a-v-o-i-d-i-n-g native speakers.
Not because I cannot understand them, just because I feel they might
also be misfits and hybrids like myself, unearthed from their own cultures,
therefore more likely to share my attitudes, passions etc

What do u think?

drawers and companions

[Gość: al]

Gość portalu: m napisał(a):

> "..with a highly defficient system of rifling through it"
>
> Certainly myself...
> read this one too?

www.nature.com/nsu/990617/990617-6.html
> thanks, enjoyed

I cannot compare similarities of the described processess with my own as I'm
not bilingual, while my father is (Polish/French). Whenever he makes
calculations (e.g. multiplication, subtraction, etc.) he always does it in
French.


> I have to admit to a cultural/social discrimination I usually fall prey to.
> Out of choice of course.
> I choose my mates by the accents, ie a-v-o-i-d-i-n-g native speakers.
> Not because I cannot understand them, just because I feel they might
> also be misfits and hybrids like myself, unearthed from their own cultures,
> therefore more likely to share my attitudes, passions etc
>
> What do u think?

I would rather choose them conversely than you. Being not bilingual I care
about taking advantage of the best examples.

best examples?

[Gość: m]

Explain yourself please.
In terms of learning the language, perhaps. But I am talking.. socially..
The psychology of choosing one's companions when you're an expat.
And that entails some language politics too.
I tend to use Polish numerals sometimes too, but English became my
first language many years ago.
My daughter however, who was born in UK, is trilingual, speaking fluently
2 other Central and Eastern European languages.
You should see a puzzled look on her face when her ethnic legacy puts
her at an advantage when any other language from those areas is being
spoken around her and she does not quite understand whay is it that she
does?!


Gos´c´ portalu: al napisa?(a):

> Gos´c´ portalu: m napisa?(a):
>
> > "..with a highly defficient system of rifling through it"
> >
> > Certainly myself...
> > read this one too?
>
> www.nature.com/nsu/990617/990617-6.html
> > thanks, enjoyed
>
> I cannot compare similarities of the described processess with my own
as I'm
> not bilingual, while my father is (Polish/French). Whenever he makes
> calculations (e.g. multiplication, subtraction, etc.) he always does it in
> French.
>
>
> > I have to admit to a cultural/social discrimination I usually fall prey to
> .
> > Out of choice of course.
> > I choose my mates by the accents, ie a-v-o-i-d-i-n-g native speakers.
> > Not because I cannot understand them, just because I feel they might
> > also be misfits and hybrids like myself, unearthed from their own
cultures
> ,
> > therefore more likely to share my attitudes, passions etc
> >
> > What do u think?
>
> I would rather choose them conversely than you. Being not bilingual I
care
> about taking advantage of the best examples.
>
>

siur :)

[Gość: al]

Gość portalu: m napisał(a):

> Explain yourself please.
> In terms of learning the language, perhaps.
That's exacltly what I mean.
> But I am talking.. socially..
Then I agree with you.
> The psychology of choosing one's companions when you're an expat.
> And that entails some language politics too.
> I tend to use Polish numerals sometimes too, but English became my
> first language many years ago.
> My daughter however, who was born in UK, is trilingual, speaking fluently
> 2 other Central and Eastern European languages.
> You should see a puzzled look on her face when her ethnic legacy puts
> her at an advantage when any other language from those areas is being
> spoken around her and she does not quite understand whay is it that she
> does?!
Well, my conclusion is that the best results in learnig languages are achieved
when one starts to learn them in the earliest childhood.

missed the point

[Gość: m]

I am not taking about learning languages..alone.
Just analyzing different origins and mechanisms of communication
between human animals.

missunderstood?

[Gość: al]

Gość portalu: m napisał(a):

> I am not taking about learning languages..alone.
> Just analyzing different origins and mechanisms of communication
> between human animals.

Do you mean our elder brothers in fur? (:O)

brothers

[Gość: m]

no, the naked beasts that we are

[Gość: Yorick]

You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals, so... ;)
rgdz
[oh, it's not an offer, just a comment]