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I was speaking and living in English for the last few days. I maybe improve a little my speaking but I'm still far for feeling comfortable with the language.
The university I arrived, the Ohio State University, is big, really big, only to say that it has a airport of its own, not a small airport for jets, a real one where the students of aeronautics can learn to fly real planes. The university has his own bus service, as well a football stadium and very large buildings. They love to talk about how big this university is (second bigger after Texas'), and they to love to talk about it football team. I never saw a complete match of this sport, but I'm sure I'll have the opportunity;. I had it with soccer too, and it was enough, although I never read nothing interesting, literary speaking, about football, and a lot of literature have been written about soccer.
This days the university is kind of empty, they told us that the reason is the classes hasn't began until end of September, and then we will see a lot of people and a lot of stress in the area.
One of the most interesting thing, language related, in the department I'm in, the Spanish and Portuguese Department, is that all the people, but the secretaries, speak a very fluent Spanish and English, in a way the feeling of bilingualism is really strong. The Latin-American students are a few (only a third part), but the rest of the American students have been speaking Spanish for many years so the first language in class is the English but everybody understands well the Spanish as well. The feeling of mixed languages, cross-languages conversations and a free choice of words, in either Spanish or English, is really similar to what I experienced in a full bilingual culture like Barcelona. I think the conversation is richer if the people can find in their background the best word to use in any given situation. The important things is to communicate ideas, and with more languages you have more tools to do it.
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| De: Javier |
Fecha: 2006-09-08 03:20 |
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I recomend you some of the latter ESPN articles the great Hunter S. Thompson used to write. The ones about football will make you get interested on it. You can catch them online, I think.
Needless to say that Hunter S. killed himself during the post season hiatus. Had he not been that badly depressed maybe Raoul Duke could still be around.
Good luck and keep up with the language work.
Regards
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