To: PapaBear3625
How can one live in a society, watch TV, see billboards and newspapers and not learn the language by osmosis? A week in Puerto Vallarta 30 years ago and we could communicate pretty well in their lingo.
10 posted on
03/30/2016 9:15:07 AM PDT by
Boojum
To: Boojum
How can one live in a society, watch TV, see billboards and newspapers and not learn the language by osmosis? A week in Puerto Vallarta 30 years ago and we could communicate pretty well in their lingo. They live in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, read Spanish newspapers, watch Spanish TV channels. If we eliminated the accommodations, then they might have an incentive to learn.
11 posted on
03/30/2016 9:17:43 AM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: Boojum
How can one live in a society, watch TV, see billboards and newspapers and not learn the language by osmosis?By making a conscious effort to resist learning it, by thinking your culture was superior and that you had no need to assimilate into an inferior culture because your group should be in charge or, in rarer cases, being too elderly to do so.
Even my mother, who made her first visit to Japan when our youngest daughter was born, learned a little of the local lingo at age 67.
13 posted on
03/30/2016 9:21:21 AM PDT by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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