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   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 18.01.2021 23:36   
      
    AH>>> I think he's trying to learn English by copying patterns & trying   
    AH>>> out variations on them. This can be a useful learning strategy at   
    AH>>> times, but it is confusing to the rest of us when we can't be   
    AH>>> sure who said what or whether he's reporting accurately here in   
    AH>>> E_T what's going on in his life... [wry grin].   
      
    MP>> Yes, but whatever works I guess. A friend of mine who came here   
    MP>> from Vietnam c1975 learned English by watching TV shows,   
    MP>> like "Three's Company" and "The Dukes of Hazard."   
      
    AH> Hmm. As a learning assistance teacher, I was called upon to help a   
    AH> girl in kindergarten who came to school without a word of English.   
    AH> I was told she enjoyed the movie ET so much, however, that she   
    AH> watched it numerous times. If she were older I might have   
    AH> recommended STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND....   
      
    AH> Different people have different preferred learning styles... and if   
    AH> Denis's instruction in English thus far has been mainly from   
    AH> textbooks I think it must require a great deal of courage on his   
    AH> part to interact with folks who routinely use colloquial English in   
    AH> Fidonet echoes.   
      
   I also wonder about my speaking abilities. But well, time's going on. Maybe   
   some day the echo writers in ENGLISH_TUTOR would be able to talk a little via   
   Skype and have a baptism of fire. ;-) Although there is a difficulty -- you   
   have a night when we have a day. ;)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2021   
      
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