| Re: IDL in Espana [message #51445] |
Sun, 26 November 2006 17:20 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Guillermo writes:
> Salamanca is indeed a very nice city, but am afraid that your plan of
> only speaking Spanish is hardly feasible, not because of the natives,
> who actually hardly speak English (only young people do) all over
> Spain, but because your fellow students, who depending on your level
> will be prone to shift to English when the conversation gets difficult.
I'm painfully aware of this tendency. But my son has
convinced me that it IS possible to resist the temptation.
He refused to speak anything but German while in Germany
(even to me for a long while!) and it paid off as his group
of American students were deemed the best German speakers
ever in their program's history.
I realize that "Si, es muy frio" and "Donde esta de
cuarto de bano?" is not the stuff of great intellectual
conversation, but I have to start somewhere. :-)
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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