Klarinet Archive - Posting 000844.txt from 1999/12

From: "Danny" <saxman105@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: languages
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:56:41 -0500

That's very interesting about all the other languages. How many languages do
you know. Or should I say speak, read, or write?

Danny Ehrhart

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Every man's memory is his private literature.
-- Aldous Huxley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subject: [kl] Re: languages

> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:39:14 -0500 Danny Ehrhart wrote:
>
> >what about us students that are taught French but don't speak it. I'm
prime
> >example. I don't see why we need masculine and feminine articles?!
(That's
> >the part I have the most trouble with!) But I try, maybe I'll be able to
> use
> >it some day!
>
>
> Dear Danny
>
> French is a rather uncomplicated language: it has only two genders. Many
> languages have three, usually indicated as male, female and neutral. I am
> not aware of any language having more than three genders.
>
> You can do quite without genders: English contains only one, the
Indonesian
> has none at all, and also this language, like Russian, has no articles.
> Don't shout hoorray to these languages, though, they are not simple! In
> Russian you have no articles, but you "ll meet all three the genders, and
> besides six cases (and many more difficulties), in Finnish (I never
learned
> that one, but a friend of mine did) you have even eight. So cheer up, do
the
> best you can, and try to get fluent in French. Be not as that LA woman,
that
> said to me "I teach French, but I cannot speak it!" It gives much richness
> to your life, when you master a language, and, believe me, I think it is
> easier to become fluent in a foreign language, than to learn to play
> clarinet ...
>
> Rien
>
>
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