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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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In article <5gHLE_IGaJB@alnilam.toppoint.de>
           mintaka@alnilam.toppoint.de "Bernd P.F. Kassler" writes:
> a normal history of learning languages:
> (at least in north germany)
> 
> first language: saxonian (or PLATT) that's what all your neighbours and
>                 your parents talk.
> 
> second language: high german; thats what they talk in TV
> 
> third language: english, thats what you need if you want to travel in
>                 europe or to become a scientist
> 
> fourth language: french; thats what you need to read modern philosophers
>                 or literature
> 
> fifth labguage: latin; if you want to go to university and study in the
>                 philosophical faculty
> 
> sixth language : danish (or whatever your neighbouring country is) that you
>                 are able to buy bread and vegetables when crossing the
>                 border. (or when you want to study in Aalborg)
> 
> seventh language: russian/chinese/japanese or whatever, if you want to make
>                 some profit in these countries.

Anyone who can speak 7 languages fluently is a damn sight cleverer than
I am. Either that, or they've spent a long time learning them.

-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
