Re(2): Medit people I love you
- To: t*@xtra.co.nz
- Subject: Re(2): Medit people I love you
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 19:12:13 -0700
theryans@xtra.co.nz writes:
>Oh! Alessandra! Don't be bashful about your English! Your command of
>this language is so masterful and total that Moira and I always have the
>greatest difficulty in believing you are not an English or American
>person who happens to live in Italy! If it were not for your given name,
>(which is beautiful) we do not think we would believe it at all.
Oh yes Alessandra, no need to be ashamed of your English. I would say you
are perfectly fluent in it. And you are much more literate in it than many
native speakers are! :). At first I thought you were from the States or an
English speaking country because of your command of English.
>
>Sadly, neither of us has any facility with languages other than our
>native tongue (we both managed - after a fashion - to speak the local
>native language(s) when we lived in Africa, but not with complete
>fluency), and we do always admire people who have that facility.
So do I. I am always fascinated by people who are fluent in languages
other than their own. I hope to become fluent in Spanish, not just
proficient.
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Time was I stood where thou dost now
And view'd the dead as thou dost me
Ere long you'll lie as low as I
And others stand and gaze at thee
