Foreign Language Acquisition

yochanan bitan ButhFam at compuserve.com
Thu Jan 27 03:25:54 EST 2000


SCM: <<one of his professors had once given a 
lecture, where half way through he quoted from some ancient Greek source, 
only to accidently finish the lecture in ancient Greek. 
...
(SCM)<< a lovely girl of Puerto Rican descent. And I noticed times, 
depending on the circumstances, 
where she could move from speaking Spanish to speaking English without 
realizing that she had shifted from one language to another. For example, 
she could look at her mother and speak Spanish, then look at me and speak 
English, and not realize that she had even spoken in Spanish. So although 
she knew I didn't speak Spanish, she assumed that I understand what she had

said to her mother. But then she was completely bilingual and lived in a 
bilingual world (so to speak).
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I find it hard to 
believe that anyone had so mastered ancient Greek that such an accident 
could be possible. >>

RB: akribws

SCM<<After all, with whom would such a person have had a 
conversation in ancient Greek? 
What community of ancient Greek speakers was 
there for one to cultivate such language behavior?>>

RB: are we smelling the coffee?
tis thelei outws grafein?

erroso
Randall Buth



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