Sæl öll,

I'm a little worried that my preceding letter was too harsh. I didn't
agree with the tone in Keth's post, but I still want his input here.
He is the only Scandinavian here (that has presented himself), so I
think "his side of the story" will be valuable here in face of the
Anglophone majority and the strong German "presence". Apologies for
any unfairness or arrogance he or others will have felt from my
criticism.

> > When Germans come to Norway, for example, it is always possible,
> > even after many years, to hear they are Germans, because they

never

> > learn to pronounce the vowels the Norwegian way.
>
> Why, that would apply to any speaker of any speech form learning

any

> other speech form. They always try to replace difficult new sound

with

> familiar old sounds. Everybody does that, not just Anglophones.

I especially wanted to mention this comment of mine. Obviously, I'm
reading something from between the lines there that perhaps wasn't
there at all. That was unfair of me.

But the point remains, that mononlingualism, linguaphobia, and
inept
pronunciation is *not* something unique to Anglophones. The
monolingual English-speaking students here must not feel inadequate,
and more importantly, must not be *made* to feel inadequate by others
here. Even if Keth wasn't trying to do that, which I'll presume he
wasn't. So I guess I'm just warning in advance :)

Hope you'll all excuse me freaking out :)

Óskar