http://daniel.carrera.bz/2008/02/spreche-sie-deutsch/ No trees were killed in the production of this website. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:06:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://daniel.carrera.bz/2008/02/spreche-sie-deutsch/comment-page-1/#comment-205 jeanweber Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:40:35 +0000 http://daniel.carrera.name/2008/02/22/spreche-sie-deutsch/#comment-205 I was most interested in your comment about being able to understand more than you could speak in English, but the other way around in German. Long ago I studied French, German, and a little Spanish and Russian (not to the point of fluency in any of them), and my memory is that in each case I was able to speak more than I could understand (unless the other person spoke slowly and distinctly), and read more than I could speak. Mind you, my vocabulary was limited, my sentences were usually not very grammatical, and my pronunciation was often quite poor. ;-) I was most interested in your comment about being able to understand more than you could speak in English, but the other way around in German. Long ago I studied French, German, and a little Spanish and Russian (not to the point of fluency in any of them), and my memory is that in each case I was able to speak more than I could understand (unless the other person spoke slowly and distinctly), and read more than I could speak. Mind you, my vocabulary was limited, my sentences were usually not very grammatical, and my pronunciation was often quite poor.

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