[AT] Does Walt .../language barrier

[Cecil Bearden]

I wish I could have the opportunity to work with a Mexican who would 
teach me enough language to survive here..

Cecil in OKla

Danny Tabor wrote:
>  
>   
>> Translation software? Sometimes, a few times a year
>> I use an online
>> dictionary, it is able to translate maybe one word
>> out of three. The rest
>> I've learned from friends, school and telly. My
>> technical english has really
>> improved the years I've been on this list.
>>
>>
>> Mattias
>>     
>  
>    I find it neat how people learn a new language. I
> worked with a Mexican (legal by the way) who learned
> english by watching cartoons first in spanish then the
> same in english. When he first started at the concrete
> plant his english was broken, hard to understand but
> after the first few months he spoke almost as well as
> anybody.
>      I used to joke with him that he should of stuck
> with Yogi Bear and Bugs Bunny to teach him proper
> english. Rather than allowing them thar' rednecks to
> learn him to talk. 
>
> Danny Tabor 
>
>
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