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To: Neocon who wrote (14426)6/7/2002 3:20:32 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
I would do markedly better on another trip to Paris, but would still feel uncomfortable being much on the spot.

I understand. Languages are one of those use-it-or-lose-it things. I was fluent once in Spanish, passable in French and German. That was when I was a student. I never used French or German since and I wouldn't venture more than a few pleasantries. I can make myself understood in Spanish and I can read it, but I don't understand spoken Spanish well at all. I studied both Japanese and Slovak as an adult. Briefly. I never had the energy to to deal with multiple Japanese alphabets or with declining Slovak adjectives. I can still muster up the pleasantries but that's all. I think that you have to learn languages as a kid and keep them up or they're gone.
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