you wrote: That was the end of the book, and I then tried to find out why I was reading in Spanish to a child who doesn't know Spanish. It may indeed be useful for language learning--though in that case I hope my accent doesn't scar him for life--but why did he want to be read to in Spanish?
me reply: I wonder if it's not for the same reason that I can still listen to radio stations broadcasting in languages I haven't a hope of understanding -- listening to the beauty of a human voice, the mystery of words one doesn't understand, deliberately frustrating the impulse or will to know immediately, marvelling at the qualities of sound, rhythm, and melody that makes the language distinct from the ordinary everyday stuff we talk with. Perhaps?
A fun sharing, thanks for Donde viven los monstruos?
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Date: 2002-09-08 12:30 am (UTC)That was the end of the book, and I then tried to find out why I was reading in Spanish to a child who doesn't know Spanish. It may indeed be useful for language learning--though in that case I hope my accent doesn't scar him for life--but why did he want to be read to in Spanish?
me reply:
I wonder if it's not for the same reason that I can still listen to radio stations broadcasting in languages I haven't a hope of understanding -- listening to the beauty of a human voice, the mystery of words one doesn't understand, deliberately frustrating the impulse or will to know immediately, marvelling at the qualities of sound, rhythm, and melody that makes the language distinct from the ordinary everyday stuff we talk with. Perhaps?
A fun sharing, thanks for Donde viven los monstruos?
Crazy(I call those orange monsters "dust kittens")Soph