Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 05:45:17 +0100 From: Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com> Subject: Re: GM to cut virtually all Saab's ties to Sweden
MH wrote: > > .... I spent 2 yrs learning German too from 14-16. > > ... > > As for German - they think I'm Swiss. > > That's not bad after only two years of German in a UK school, or it must > have been a really intensive course.... Thank you. I had an *excellent* teacher for the first year and that made such a difference. > Usually it takes -a lot- longer to be so fluent as to be mistaken for a > 'native'. With most non native speakers you can tell their origin after two > sentences, sometimes one. I picked up the Swiss accent from my then g/f who was from Basel. She had friends over from time to time and we often talked in German. I obviously picked up some of the linguistic character that way - just as I did with French from my Provencale friends here. Graham