Michelle Harper

O.K. somebody help me with this one....translatons please...OTSBH?      Michelle ~

lgbryk

My daughter is trying to learn French, and is dying to find a way to go to France for as little money as is possible. She discovered that there is an organization called Volunteers for Peace that has opportunities for teens and adults. She has come to realize that without being totally submerged into the language she doubts that she could possibly really learn. It makes sense to me. Also this past weekend we met a woman from France who told us about an organization called Alliance Francaise where people get together to speak in French, she tells us there are groups all over the country. Perhaps there are other groups for other languages. Just a few thoughts we have been coming up with.
Linda
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:34, Elizabeth Hill wrote:
> My son isn't specifically trying to learn a second language, but I am.
> And I'm doing the same thing you are; reading HP #1 in Spanish. (But
> not from a cold start. I had a year of Spanish in Jr. High School more



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Elizabeth Hill

** My daughter is trying to learn French, and is dying to find a way to
go to France for as little money as is possible. She discovered that
there is an organization called Volunteers for Peace that has
opportunities for teens and adults. She has come to realize that without
being totally submerged into the language she doubts that she could
possibly really learn.**

Some years ago, my brother did a pretty inexpensive "summer immersion"
program in Japanese in the dorms at UC Santa Cruz. (It's cheaper, but
you don't get to travel, and you may get a much poorer accent.)

**Also this past weekend we met a woman from France who told us about an
organization called Alliance Francaise where people get together to
speak in French, she tells us there are groups all over the country.**

My mom used to go hear some of their speakers, and maybe attend some of
their other social functions.

Betsy

diana jenner

If you get a spanish-language channel like Univision, watch the real
telenovelas ~ they're highly entertaining and easy to follow (obvious soap
opera story lines). The commercials are funny and if you're up for a
challenge, find an Oprah-like show <bg> It helps to hear the language,
somehow it just sinks in better. Check out Jose-Luis Orozco for children's
folk music, like a latin Raffi :)

~diana :)

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From: "Emile Snyder" <unschooling@...>
>
> > than 30 years ago. And I recently watched through the episodes of
> > Destinos, a fake telenovela designed to teach Spanish that is shown on
> > some PBS stations.)
>
> Were these fun? Seem helpful? I read quite a bit, and enjoy it, so it
> was what I started with first but hearing a language spoken seems pretty
> important too...


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Paula Sjogerman

on 10/7/04 11:47 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

Me: I'm just talking about the idea
>> of "translating" the words of Shakespeare into modern words.
>
Joyce: But I don't see why you'd fear a translation would replace
Shakespeare's
> original works. I do see a side by side translation making Shakespeare more
> accessible and, therefore, intriguing to many people.


Me: I didn't say that. I'm not afraid of that. I just made a comment about
how the beauty of Shakespeare is in the language itself. It's an aesthetic
judgement on my part that anyone is free to disagree with. Also, from the
point of view as the wife of a playwright, it's just plain wrong at some
point to mess with a play's actual words.

To me, the language is still close enough to ours that it's worth exploring.
To others, I guess it's more like translating Aristophanes from the original
Greek. I wouldn't put any energy into stopping you from doing that <gg>. I
wouldn't tell anyone not to watch Disney's Pocohantas, but I also probably
wouldn't recommend it as the best way to learn about the subject.

Paula

[email protected]

In a message dated 10/8/04 8:24:55 AM, hahamommy@... writes:

<< If you get a spanish-language channel like Univision, watch the real

telenovelas ~ they're highly entertaining and easy to follow (obvious soap

opera story lines). The commercials are funny and if you're up for a

challenge, find an Oprah-like show <bg> It helps to hear the language,

somehow it just sinks in better. Check out Jose-Luis Orozco for children's

folk music, like a latin Raffi :) >>

Marty has been watching some of their version of Family Feud. It goes slowly
enough that he can puzzle out some of the answers, and that's fun.

Sandra

Nisha

many of the shows also have the closed captioning in spanish , and
many DVDs have subtitles in either spanish or french.
nisha

--- In [email protected], "diana jenner"
<hahamommy@s...> wrote:
> If you get a spanish-language channel like Univision, watch the real
> telenovelas ~ they're highly entertaining and easy to follow
(obvious soap
> opera story lines). The commercials are funny and if you're up for
a
> challenge, find an Oprah-like show <bg> It helps to hear the
language,
> somehow it just sinks in better. Check out Jose-Luis Orozco for
children's
> folk music, like a latin Raffi :)