Re: Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-14 Thread John Rudd
On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:32 PM -0600 Paul R. Ganci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I am still a linguistic idiot and only speak English ... a Buffalo, NY version at that! My grand parents came over from Italy in 1920 and

Re: Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-14 Thread Roger Taranto
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 23:38, John Rudd wrote: And, reiterating Kenneth's question: Anyone have advice for an almost middle-aged person who wants to go about expanding his natural language capabilities? There was an article in Newsweek a few weeks back about language immersion vacations.

Re: Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-14 Thread Manuel Giorgini
[2006-04-14 08:38:46] John Rudd, I wish to start by greeting the list; I am a recent addition and I have been lurking for the past two weeks. You guys already make enough traffic. :-) JR And, reiterating Kenneth's question: Anyone have advice for an almost JR middle-aged person who wants to go

Re: Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 14. April 2006 06:46 Kenneth Porter wrote: To those of you who've successfully learned 2nd and 3rd languages as an adult, what do you recommend for accomplishing that? There are books called Assimil, because you just assimilate the language with them, learning in a very natural way

Re: Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-14 Thread Manuel Giorgini
[2006-04-14 06:46:51] Kenneth Porter, KP To those of you who've successfully learned 2nd and 3rd languages as an KP adult, what do you recommend for accomplishing that? As soon as you finish the basic/intermediate courses, find a penpal, or more than one, as soon as you can. With the Internet

Re: Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-14 Thread Ham
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 23:38, John Rudd wrote: And, reiterating Kenneth's question: Anyone have advice for an almost middle-aged person who wants to go about expanding his natural language capabilities? There was an article in Newsweek a few weeks back about language immersion vacations.

Non-English languages (was: xxxl spam)

2006-04-13 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:32 PM -0600 Paul R. Ganci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I am still a linguistic idiot and only speak English ... a Buffalo, NY version at that! My grand parents came over from Italy in 1920 and promptly stopped speaking Italian around my parents. It