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echo: barktopus
to: David N. Barnett
from: Randy H
date: 2003-05-11 14:43:08
subject: Re: 1939 already

From: "Randy H" 

That was Phil's post from a few days ago.

"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 May 2003 07:14:59 -0400, Monte Davis
>  wrote in message
> :
>
> | And it's hard to sell DLE in a country where people take it as given
> | that learning a second language is hard. They assume it "competes"
> | with mastering English for their own kids, and slows
"Americanization"
> | for immigrant kids... when in fact neither is true.
>
> I saw a good chart the other day:
>
> Speaks four languages or more:   polyglot
> Speaks three languages:                 trilingual
> Speaks two languages:                    bilingual
> Speaks one language:                     American
>
> Speaks more than six languages:  probably Dutch
>
> --dnb

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