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| lolo67 Newbie France Joined 5245 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 1 of 6 16 July 2010 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You are interested in manufacturing an object specific to a foreign country (panpipes from bolivia) or in mastering a cultural competence (greek cuisine)but you can't speak the language.
Ask about it in English, someone will perhaps answer in his mother language, whenever possible with video tapes showing insisting gestures. Find all the necessary clues to identify the content of the explanation, even if you don't understand at first. Example : a cake easy to guess : How do you cook an "apfelstrudel" (austrian applepie)? Eier (egg), Zucker (sugar)mit Apfel (apple) und Honig (honey) mischen (mix). Die Masse in den Teig verteilen 220 Grad backen (bake) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| feanarosurion Senior Member Canada Joined 5281 days ago 217 posts - 316 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish, Norwegian | Message 2 of 6 16 July 2010 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at here. I see what you mean, but I'm not sure how this can be considered a learning technique. This is obviously a situation that comes about very infrequently, and it's also quite likely that whoever you're with will answer back in the same language. If this is some sort of game, then I'm not really sure whether that's OK on this forum. Some more information as to your actual point of discussion would be good.
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 3 of 6 16 July 2010 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I agree, I learn all my languages through cakes.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 4 of 6 16 July 2010 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
You must mean that learning languages is a piece of cake. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6203 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 5 of 6 16 July 2010 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If I understand what you mean, then what you're referring to is a technique that I think is common in revitalizing Native American languages with only a few elderly speakers. The idea is that the speaker will get together with a learner as often as possible, and they will do various activities while the speaker explains what they are doing in their native language. However, this is an extreme case where a language has only a few speakers and little to no resources; I don't really think this is an ideal method in general.
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 6 17 July 2010 at 5:00am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, this was a (bad) joke. I definitely don't consider learning languages a piece of cake! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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