[PRCo] Re: Kennywood being sold:

[Fred Schneider]

The problem with taking foreign languages is that we fail to  
comprehend just how much time it took us to learn the first or native  
language.   It isn't going to be any easier to learn the second one.   
List to two, three, four, and five year old kids around you ....    
Then ten-year olds.   And fifteen year olds.  And twenty-year olds.    
It takes a whole lot of effort to learn to speak properly.   But you  
didn't know how much effort you were putting it to it as you grew  
up.   You just did it.

It is going to take just as much effort to learn that second  
langage.   Just as much practice.   Just as much interaction with  
other people.   Then eventually you get it.

Carl Schultz, who makes video tapes for Transit Gloria Mundi, once  
remarked, it took a long while as a foreign exchange student and then  
one day he realized he was sitting at dinner and he realized what the  
family was saying.

I just wished I had had the opportunity, like he did, to live with a  
German family in high school.

Rich Allman, who is on our list, was another who had that  
opportunity.   He lived in Munich for a while in high school and I  
believe he still reads German fan magazines.



On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
>> See, I told you to take Spanish.
>
> I did. I sucked.
>