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Re: [lojban] Re: Hello from a newbie!
At 10:34 AM 06/15/2000 +0000, you wrote:
--- In lojban@egroups.com, Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> wrote:
> >With luck I'll fair better with lojban than I did with German. :-)
>
> Vier fünfmal vervierfacht macht mehr als fünf viermal
verfünffacht. Li vo te'a
> mu pi'i vo zmadu li mu te'a vo pi'i mu.
Oh boy, oh boy! Where did you pick up all *that* German!!! Although
totally correct (I never heard that before) your teachers
really must have - successfully - tried to chase their students away
from *that* language!
There are reasons why Americans never learn foreign languages, and one of
the main ones is that the textbooks present us with the most stultifying
versions possible. I learned far more German trying to read a one chapter
of a German astronomy textbook with a dictionary than I did in a year of
classroom German.
I still have memorized part of a dialogue from my German class from
1968. It is wonderful should I ever be a student asking another about
going with them to the library to return a book. Something I doubt that I
ever did in English even (what - I need an escort to walk to the library now?).
lojbab
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