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| LorenzoGuapo Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6448 days ago 79 posts - 94 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: French | Message 1 of 3 10 July 2012 at 3:35pm | IP Logged |
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A few years back I read the book by Barry Farber which this website is named from How To Learn Any Language and to my suprise in one of the chapters he basically says, no matter how many languages a person knows and no matter how well they know the languages, that person will always be judged by their French. I am pretty sure there are some of you out there who have worked hard at achieving high levels in your prefered target languages and those may not be French. I do not agree with his statement what does everyone think or feel about that?
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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4682 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2 of 3 10 July 2012 at 4:25pm | IP Logged |
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Well, if your favourite target language is not French, then it must be that it's your mother tongue! I don't really see how it could be otherwise! :)
Anyway, on this forum, what kind of answer do you expect? Most people are going to say it's wrong, and some people will try to explain why he said that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5013 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3 of 3 10 July 2012 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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It's been some time since I read the book but if I remember correctly, the example was
set in a situation where you speak French with a french and you are judged by your level of the language, not by the fact that you can as well speak several other languages. The message was "learn rather few languages to high level than a lot of languages to bad level" not "French is the most important foreign language no matter what". He could have as well say that in Spain, you will be judged by your Spanish or in Germany by your German. Edited by Cavesa on 10 July 2012 at 5:16pm 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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