Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 04:33:15 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 00:57:57, Ulf Flörsheimer wrote: >On November 07, 2001 at 23:07:53, Chessfun wrote: > >>On November 07, 2001 at 21:53:17, Thomas Mayer wrote: >> >>>Hi Sarah, >>> >>>>>I tend to agree with you, but I would not ask people to stop posting in >>>>>non-english languages. >>>>>I would suggest them to add a translation in english, even a short one, so we >>>>>can at least understand what's going on. That's not an obligation, but that >>>>>would be really nice for the majority of readers. >>>>>If a majority of people disagree with me, then I'll just start writing all my >>>>>posts in french. ;) >>> >>>>Actually it makes perfect sense to me, but I still don't understand >>>>when they can read and write English why they don't post in English.? >>> >>>I agree with you, that those who can speak english should try to do so, at least >>>with Christophs idea to add at least a short translation... But there are people >>>who can't should they be out... >> >> >>No. They should post in their native language. >> >> >>>And believe me, well, I try to speak english here, but my english is that worse >>>that it is really hard work for me to do so... >> >> >>Well, your doing a pretty good job. >> >> >>>But maybe another one: You know the german forum of the CSS - from time to time >>>we have there VERY much english postings - noone ever claimed on that... and >>>they were right, why should we claim - it's an international hobby - everybody >>>try's to help those guys, collects the last rests of his school english and try >>>to explain... Nothing wrong with me... So why not allow a little bit >>>multicultural, multilanguage here ? >>> >>>Greets, Thomas >> >> >>As I've written I have no problem with any language being posted. >>But seems to me as a clear majority here read and write English that if >>a poster is capable of doing that then he/she should. >> >>I myself have posted at CSS, if I could have written in German I would have >>done so, although it seems a much larger percentage of the German posters >>read and write English than vise versa. >> >>Sarah. > >I think for many native english speakers who haven't learned any foreign >languages it isn't easy to understand that it makes a big difference between >understanding a text (or at least getting an idea of what's going on) an writing >only a few words in a language, where you pemanent aren't able to fetch the >right phrase out of your mind. So please don't judge too harshly, if I plötzlich >nicht mehr weiter weiß und in meiner Not nur noch in deutsch weiter machen kann >... (suddenly find no more english words and only can go on in my native >language ...) :-))) > >For the above words I needed a dictionary three times, but to understand the >whole thread I didn't need it once. That's the point. > >Ulf There is a great difference between "active vocabulary"(those words we use when speaking/writing) and "passive vocabulary"(those words we understand when listening/reading,but are unable to use by ourselves). JAFM "Travelling the Road to an Active Vocabulary" by Norma Shapiro [Peace Corps, Los Angeles Unified School District] http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/00/jul/shapiro.html JALT ==> Japan Association for Language Teaching
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