Re: Speaking without a foreign accent

From: Des Small (des.small_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:15:45 GMT

LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Dy <peterdy@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
> >> If a person is *willing* to correct his accent and somehow know
> >> HOW to do it, I believe it is possible. A phonetician would be
> >> helpful here. Some exceptionally brilliant language teachers
> >> (who have some talent in phonetics without form training in it)
> >> may do it, too. Maybe, that also distinguishes an excellent
> >> language teacher than an ordinary one.
>
>
> Peter> But there's only so many hours in a day.
>
> I always think that's the biggest difference between children and
> adults in the context of L2 learning.

Word!

Having revived my career as pedagogical guineau-pig, I can find
lots of materials that are designed to let me learn by immersion, like
I allegedly did the first time, but I cannot find a universe in which
I can take two (2) or more years to learn to say "Mama!" and
everyone is delighted and impressed.

Des
could also do with more nap-time. 

-- 
"[T]he structural trend in linguistics which took root with the
International Congresses of the twenties and early thirties [...] had
close and effective connections with phenomenology in its Husserlian
and Hegelian versions." -- Roman Jakobson

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