http://www.patterico.com/2004/05/31/learning-a-foreign-language/ Harangues that just make sense Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.patterico.com/2004/05/31/learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-2323 do Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1589#comment-2323 A proviso: contrary to Patterico's experience, which may hold perfectly well for Germans and Italians, French people actually like you less (but respect you more) when you speak French. After living there several years and acquiring fluency, I found myself occasionally pretending that to be a monolingual American tourist. Smiles always accompanied the tortured English response. This method also has the benefit of permitting you to guage your interlocutor's real attitude when they address colleagues. A proviso: contrary to Patterico’s experience, which may hold perfectly well for Germans and Italians, French people actually like you less (but respect you more) when you speak French. After living there several years and acquiring fluency, I found myself occasionally pretending that to be a monolingual American tourist. Smiles always accompanied the tortured English response. This method also has the benefit of permitting you to guage your interlocutor’s real attitude when they address colleagues.

]]> http://www.patterico.com/2004/05/31/learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-2324 John Jorsett Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1589#comment-2324 Take a look on EBay. There's hundreds of Pimsleur courses for sale there. Take a look on EBay. There’s hundreds of Pimsleur courses for sale there.

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