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From: dick@cs.vu.nl (Dick Grune)
Subject: Re: Languages in which total immersion is impossible
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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 11:48:51 GMT
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In article <782300633snz@cary.demon.co.uk>,
Kittredge Cowlishaw <Kitt@cary.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>This has always worked fine for me, and I've been pretty smug about
>it, but last week I heard a heart-rending tale suggesting that total
>immersion in Dutch is impossible.  If this is true, then Dutch is
>dropping out of my language queue forever.
>

This is true for the west of the Netherlands only.  In the east and the south
of the country English is still considered a very foreign language, and people
welcome any attempt to speak Dutch.  I found English a very weird language
when I got it taught in school (I'm from Enschede, which is about as east as
you can get) and heard and saw it no place else.

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