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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (549)	1/5/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

(OFFTOPIC) Mea culpa. I didn't realize you were using (a) referring to answer a or b. I should have thought of that. I speak nothing, much to my embarrassment. Had 6 years of Latin, two years of French, and several years of diction in French, German, and Italian because of voice studies. So I can sing anything--I just have no idea what I'm saying. German lieder don't offer much in the way of practical conversational discourse. I was able to say to people in Germany, Die Lotusblume „ngstigt (The lotusbloom is anxious)or Meine Liebe ist grn wie der Fliederbusch (My love is green like the lilac-handy if we need medical assistance, maybe?) or Je suis Titania la blonde in Paris(I'm Titania the fair), which would be fine if my name were Titania, I suppose. It's a travesty that our young people aren't learning to speak other languages well. My son is in his third year of French and we have yet to hear him say anything. He says he can't. There seems to be no emphasis on the conversational aspect of it-so what good is it???