Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00794)

-Hallo Bart,

Communication in the black letter is always colourless and difficult.
With voice you hear much more of the person you communicate with.

But I think that the American language if speaking slowly will be 
much more understandable, just as the English and other strange 
languages do: they speak them too quickly.
But we try to understand, that will be better than the French do, 
they only speak their own language.
I studied for 7 years French, but if I am in France now; I can be 
glad how to survive.

The power of expression in the native language also can give 
problems, because of the many minds that colored different from what 
one is saying.

The best is to have an empty mind and listen well.
But we all are in The Babylonian Confucion of tongues.

I think if somebody is living in a English speaking surrounding
all will comes easy after a while.
Times ago .... I corresponds with 5 friends
one in Australie, one in VS, two in Spain and one in Austria.
>From Spain comming to my country and speaking English so much, that 
we just thinking in English.
But on my job, I must speak to the customers(Pharmacy) Dutch, 
terrible difficult for I forgot how to speak Dutch.
As you see; it is normal you forgot Dutch.
But I just forgot my own language!
Christina
-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> christinaleestemaker wrote:
> > American English is different from the Oxford English and we 
learned 
> > Oxford English.
> 
> I know that. When I lived in Amsterdam, I was told not to 
speak English 
> to my friends, because I was ruining their accents (I have 
forgotten 
> almost all my Nederlands, thought). However, at least when I lived 
> there, many of the television shows were American in origin, 
although 
> many were British, as well. I suspect that you understand English 
far 
> better than you speak it.
> 
> I suspect that Anand is using subtle reverse psychology, 
expressing his 
> ideas in such an incredibly obnoxious manner as to make even those 
who 
> might be inclined to agree with some of what he says disagree with 
him.
> 
> Bart