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Interested in languages, cinema, books, visual arts…but mainly here for politics. Русский военный корабль иди нахуй
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Indians (in India) are often great language learners: they don’t surround the task with mystique or worry about correctness or progress - they just dive in and use whatever fragments they may have or can quickly pick up.
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I once spent several months in Mumbai. Indian English is the elite language - maybe ‘acrolect’ is the right term? I needed Hindi eg to talk to rickshaw drivers. And my Hindi-speaking relatives, who grew up in the city, barely understand and rarely interact in Marathi, the local language.
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Thank you, that’s interesting and plausible. Kind of you to respond.
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Thank you! But how was Roman military occupation in Britannia different from in Gaul (or Iberia etc) so that all the Gauls, Iberocelts etc across social classes adopted Latin but non-elite Britons didn’t?
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Sorry for not including alt-text in the reference to Peter C. Brown’s ‘Make it Stick’ - and thank you for pointing it out.
I’ve read and value Scott Young’s great book. I’ve downloaded a sample of the Nicole Vignola!
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Thanks for the link! I read this book recently, which is very good on the value of frequent quizzing - of great value not just in gauging how much has been learnt but in sense checking new ideas and knowledge.