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Subject: Re: Susan starts posting


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khms
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Date Posted: 03:02:38 12/10/12 Mon
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Susan starts posting" on 20:56:27 10/21/12 Sun

and I never even heard of German being taught in high school.”and I never even heard of German being taught in high school.”

Hmm. I'm anything but an expert on Japan, but I seem to recall hearing something about that ... but the only two Japanese I ever met professionally - OK, one was a representative for a Japanese business to Britain, and spoke fairly good English; the other came from Japan, and it seems his English was so bad, not only could I not understand him, but neither could the other.

Still, I do know that German classical composers are big in Japan - it almost seems more Japanese learn to play their music than Germans!

On the other hand, a Chinese prof who once rented a room from us did speak German - probably doesn't say much. On the third hand, Germany does a lot of business with China. And Japan does a lot of business with us. I don't know ...

Well - speaking of yesterday - at least they're all metric :-)



As for ESL, duh! I should have thought of that myself - I've heard from several of those over time.

Other ideas: journalist working for German media internationally, might work.

Or development aid worker.

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Author:
khms
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Date Posted: 02:24:55 12/19/12 Wed

Interesting.

First, in the last chapter, Albburg sounded completely atypical from any German public uni I ever heard about (and I don't think we have enough snobby nobility left to fill even a small uni, let alone the very idea of a public uni that sounds like an US religious college), and now the concept of a jock-free US uni ... some tough suspension-of-disbelief stuff there!
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Wes
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Date Posted: 11:42:27 12/19/12 Wed

>Interesting.
>
>First, in the last chapter, Albburg sounded completely
>atypical from any German public uni I ever heard about
>(and I don't think we have enough snobby nobility left
>to fill even a small uni, let alone the very idea of a
>public uni that sounds like an US religious college),
>and now the concept of a jock-free US uni ... some
>tough suspension-of-disbelief stuff there!

There are actually a few jock free colleges although their number is dwindling. I went to one myself, but they've since sold themselves down the river.

But come on, this is fiction, after all -- and in this area, maybe even fantasy . . .

-- Wes


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