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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6449 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes  Studies: German | Message 1 of 7 21 July 2009 at 4:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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Some crazy stuff here.
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| Caveben Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5667 days ago 40 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Romanian, Slovenian | Message 2 of 7 21 July 2009 at 4:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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That is sad. As the saying goes: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5985 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 7 21 July 2009 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That is frightening.
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| taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6119 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic | Message 4 of 7 21 July 2009 at 9:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"People are stupid" -Terry Goodkind
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| Linguistics Diglot Groupie Finland Joined 5630 days ago 59 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, English Studies: German, Finnish | Message 5 of 7 22 July 2009 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
How do they manage to teach English to native speakers without introducing linguistics at all?
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| The Narrator Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 5605 days ago 31 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English, Modern Hebrew* Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 23 July 2009 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Would be very generous to post the summary of it for us lazy people, you know.
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| Caveben Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5667 days ago 40 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Romanian, Slovenian | Message 7 of 7 23 July 2009 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A guy was convicted on the bases of what was presented as a recording of his voice selling drugs. In the recording the voice spoke with an American accent despite the fact that the defendant was from Haiti had not begun to learn English until he was 18.
---------- I'm not clear on how extensive the recording was. It is conceivable that he could have learned to speak a few sentence without an accent by repeatedly practising against a recording. I doubt it would be possible for him to have carried out a dynamic conversation without an accent however. I'm not familiar with the case but I would hope there was other evidence other than the recording. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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