[tied] Re: Celts & Cimmerians

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Alex:
> >I use english when I need to comunicate with people which do not

know my

> >language; I don't use english for comunicating with my family; I

do not

> >dream in english, I do not count in english, I do not make any
> >calculation in English or German. For such kind of things the brain
> >switch automaticaly in the "mother language".
>
> How strange. Maybe the problem you evidently have with language

acquisition

> is that you think you have a mother language. Perhaps I'm unusual

but

> I can pick up another language like trying on a pair of trousers.

In French,

> I think in French. My grammar may not be perfect but I don't think

in

> English and convert to French... I just think in French. By

thinking of

> _every_
> language as one's own, not just one's "mother tongue", it becomes

easier

> to learn new languages because one can then identify with that

language.

> It isn't new; it's already "your" language.
>
> As for cultures picking up new languages, get over it. It happens

all the

> time
> and is happening as we breathe. Probably for the same reason --

They no

> longer think "us-versus-them" but begin to identify with

their "foreign"

> counterparts.
>
> Just a thought from gLeNny.

When was the last time you identified with your foreign counterpart?

Torsten