[AT] Does Walt .../language barrier

[Gordon Hart]

Come over hear in Arkansas and work for me along side of the 8 I have and 
not only will you stay in shape but you will learn enough language to 
survive. They want to work daylight till dark 7 days a week. I have to 
restrain them.
Gordon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Does Walt .../language barrier


>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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