Subj : Re: This week's issue
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Sat Jul 07 2018 00:18:19

Sean,
 
SD> A friend of mine who is a
SD> linguist and speaks 16 languages has told me that save for Mandarin
SD> Chinese,
SD> English is the most difficult language for non-native speakers to learn.
 
I would prefer to challenge that ... English is probably the easiest language 
except for people from South-East Asia.
 
Last October my then 7yr old granddaughter did all the talking when passing US 
immigration in Boston. She speaks a mean kind of english mostly because she 
watches english-language TV-programmes in the original version. Not dubbed.
 
 \%/@rd 

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