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TALKING TO FOREIGNERS
When you are conversing in your native language with people who don't speak it fluently, assume that they understand about half as much as they look like they understand.
Stephen Cudhea, English-language instructor, Ishikawa, Japan
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MAKING CONVERSATION
Ninety percent of all conversations use only 1,000 words.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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CRACKING A SECRET CODE
If the high-frequency letters ETOANIRSH occur very often, in this order, you can assume that you are dealing with a transposition cipher in which the letters remain the same but are rearranged in a new pattern. On the other hand, the repeated appearance of low-frequency letters indicates that a message has been written in a substitution code.
John Laffin, cryptologist
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COMMUNICATING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY
When traveling in a country whose language you don't know, the words for "Yes," "No," "Beer," "Please," "Thank you," "That," and as many numbers as possible will get you through about 90 percent of the situations you encounter. Memorizing complicated expressions is useless because you will not be able to understand the response. Grammar is irrelevant; correct pronunciation is vital.
Phil A. Schrodt, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Half a semester of foreign-language instruction at the college level is equal to one year of language instruction at the high school level.
David S. Russell, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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LOSING AN ACCENT
It's almost impossible to speak a new language without some noticeable degree of accent if you acquire it beyond the age of 12 or 13.
Robert Keeler, Technical Writer, Chicago, IL, USA
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TRANSLATING GERMAN
To guess the English word for an unknown German word, replace German T with D; Z or SS with T; D with TH; EI with O or I; AU with EE or EA; CH with CK or CH; B with F or V; PF with P; and SCH as the first letters of a word with S. The German word PFLANZ becomes plant; ZWEI becomes two.
Norman Brenner, Fleetwood, New York
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COMMUNICATION ERROR!
When attempting to converse with someone that speaks a different language, talking louder does not help them to better understand.
Ray
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LEARNING A LANGUAGE
About 150 to 200 hours of instruction and $1,500 worth of cds and classes should produce credible speaking ability in French, Spanish, or German. For Oriental and Middle Eastern languages, figure 2 or 3 times longer.
Boardroom Reports
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USING WHO OF WHOM
if you can answer the question being asked with him, then use whom, and it's easy to remember because they both end with m. For example, if you're trying to ask, "Who (or whom) do you love?" The answer would be "I love him." Him ends with an m, so you know to use whom. But if you are trying to ask, "Who (or whom) stepped on Squiggly?" the answer would be "He stepped on Squiggly." There's no m, so you know to use who. So that's the quick and dirty trick: if you can't remember that you use whom when you are referring to the object of the sentence réplique montres, just remember that him equals whom.
Joseph Bauer, Master Carpenter, Indian Hills, Ohio, USA
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TRANSLATING GREEK
If you can't identify a word in a Greek sentence, it is a verb with a prefix. To figure it out, go through the lexicon chopping off one letter from the front at a time.
Gene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois
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