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On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:05:11 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller wrote:

But if you were to immerse yourself by eg watching lots of
German TV (with subtitles) you would soon start to pick up
the language again.

"by eg" should be "e.g. by"

but if I was going to try, I'd either look to improve my spoken French, take up

Subjunctive alert! "If I were going to ..." ;)

You missed the either-or construct with 3 terms.

Oh dear JGM, you are slipping.

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On 22/03/2012 15:05, J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, at 12:51:48 +0000, Java Jive wrote:

Can't remember much of it though.

Hardly surprising -- if you do not use it you forget it.
But if you were to immerse yourself by eg watching lots of
German TV (with subtitles) you would soon start to pick up
the language again.

I suspect 60+ is too old to be learning languages anyway

Not true at all, unless you are going senile, and there is
no evidence of that. ;)

"You are never too old to learn a new language"

http://www.japantoday.COM/category/executive-impact/view/youre-never-too-old-to-learn-a-new-language

but if I was going to try, I'd either look to improve my spoken French, take up

Subjunctive alert! "If I were going to ..." ;)

I'm just as happy listening to music if I can't find anything to
watch.

BR-Klassik? MDR Klassik? NDR Kultur?

All available at high bitrates from Astra 19,2 East.


Mark Twain said life is too short to learn German :-)

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John Legon wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

"Die Programme der ARD werden grundsätzlich unverschlüsselt und ohne
zusätzliche Kosten ausgestrahlt."

Anyone pasting that into Google Language may get completely the wrong
result. Quote:

"The programs of the ARD will be encrypted

Oh sorry, I'm another bablefish man myself ... the joys of machine
translation.

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On Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, at 17:22:38h +0000, Paul Ratcliffe complained:

You missed the either-or construct with 3 terms.

Oh dear JGM, you are slipping.

Yes I have been guilty of doing that myself.