Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a differentlanguage?

2008-06-30 Thread Perry E. Metzger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > One of the most amusing things to happen to me is people in Southern > Italy telling me that the way I said common phrases like "va bene" > sounded "northern"- given how basic my command of the language is, > I'd have thought "foreign" or "tourist-like" would be the fir

Re: [silk] Are you a different person when you speak a differentlanguage?

2008-06-30 Thread divyasampath
Giancarlo Livraghi wrote: One of the most amusing things to happen to me is people in Southern Italy telling me that the way I said common phrases like "va bene" sounded "northern"- given how basic my command of the language is, I'd have thought "foreign" or "tourist-like" would be the first c