Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 18.01.2021 23:36

 AH>>> I think he's trying to learn English by copying patterns & trying
 AH>>> out variations on them. This can be a useful learning strategy at
 AH>>> times, but it is confusing to the rest of us when we can't be
 AH>>> sure who said what or whether he's reporting accurately here in
 AH>>> E_T what's going on in his life... [wry grin].

 MP>> Yes, but whatever works I guess. A friend of mine who came here
 MP>> from Vietnam c1975 learned English by watching TV shows,
 MP>> like "Three's Company" and "The Dukes of Hazard."

 AH> Hmm. As a learning assistance teacher, I was called upon to help a
 AH> girl in kindergarten who came to school without a word of English.
 AH> I was told she enjoyed the movie ET so much, however, that she
 AH> watched it numerous times. If she were older I might have
 AH> recommended STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND....

 AH> Different people have different preferred learning styles... and if
 AH> Denis's instruction in English thus far has been mainly from
 AH> textbooks I think it must require a great deal of courage on his
 AH> part to interact with folks who routinely use colloquial English in
 AH> Fidonet echoes.

I also wonder about my speaking abilities. But well, time's going on. Maybe some day the echo writers in ENGLISH_TUTOR would be able to talk a little via Skype and have a baptism of fire. ;-) Although there is a difficulty -- you have a night when we have a day. ;)

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2021

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