XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish
XPost: soc.culture.scottish
From: josiah-jenkins@dsl.pipex.com
Whilst perusing Usenet on Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:02:35 -0000, I read these
words from "Westprog" :
>"allan connochie" wrote in message
>news:45e52e34@news.greennet.net...
>...
>> > On a pro rate population basis, I'll wager that more
>> > Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Greeks and Poles
>> > have attempted to learn to speak a second language
>> > compared to the English !
>
>Why say English here? Why not say British?
Because I meant *nglish !
>
>I noticed the same thing a while
>back when there was criticism of "English" cooking,
>as if Welsh, Scottish or Irish
They all have a first/second languge to start with.
Many of them speak 'Gaelic' (of whatever flavour)
and *nglish. That gives them a head start !
Perhaps because of that influence on the culture,
there isn't the same reticence to attempt to converse
in another language.
Shouting LOUDER rarely helps !
(even, as I have witnessed, in Auchan in Calais)
>
>If you speak the default language for world commerce,
>you're less likely to learn another language.
>How many Germans learn a second language that
>_isn't_ English?
Not the question in hand, is it ?
How many 'Europeans' learn a second language . . . ?
vis
How many *nglish learn a second language . . . ?
BTW I am not even speaking of achieving *fluency* in
another language, just making the attempt to master the
simple phrases needed on a day to day basis.
Excuse me
Thank you
How much is this ?
I don't speak <. . .> very well
Can you help me ?
Numbers 1 - 10 (for the beers)
Ich bin nicht *nglisch, ich bin Schottisch
Je ne suis pas *nglais, je suis Ecossais
No soy *nglés, yo soy Escocés
-- jjj
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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