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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Well hi there!

Who're you? Blog readers? Really?

Wow.

Anyway, bad intros regarding, Slovenia is much more concious about languages than we are. They are so small and so ringed by other countries that to know three or four languages is a must. I feel quite small when I here someone speak slovene, english, and german.

So we all trooped to a language school. After hellos, the owner brought in a woman who was the english, spanish, italian, french, slovene, AND arabic teacher. That's a wow. I was amazed.

Slovenia, in accordance with the languages of it's populace, is a very diverse country. It has mountains, forests, coasts, and plains, apparently with some nuclear skiing sites that I'm dying to try. The main soil type is Karst, a limestone mix that is perfect for caves. Much of North carolina and Tennessee are Karst too. When rain water with even the slightest bit of acid rains, it eats away the limestone, leaving some truly spectacular cave formations (some are so big in Slovenia that there is a CASTLE inside one.

There's also the mediterranean on the south-west side of the country, with all it's charms (no surfing, sadly.) Italy is only a short drive (or sail) away, and Germany and Austria are too the north.

We're hoping to visit some of the sights in these areas as well.

Adijo (goodbye)\

G-man

4 comments:

  1. sounds like you are having a good time.

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  2. you asked for news from the usa.
    "Tai Shan, a 4-and-a-half-year-old male panda born at the National Zoo of Washington D.C., and Mei Lan, a 3-year-old female panda born at Zoo Atlanta, will arrive in Chengdu, China Feb. 5 after a 14-hour journey from Washington."
    I can barely speak english so persons who speak more than one language do wow and amaze me as well.

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  3. yes, the u.s. should be ashamed about this language thing. it doesn't bode well for our survival as some kind of major world force. plus, it's just so . . . arrogant, isn't it, G? You're smart to soak up as many as you can get while over there. Seems like once a person gets comfortable with multi-lingualism as a way of being, even if he or she is not real fluent in many languages, it becomes easy to glide in and out of them as necessary, even with limited vocabulary, because there's no fear factor. I know a lot of French but always sort of seize up in France because I am not one of those comfortable multi-linguists. Like Bilbo says, "fear is never good for thinking" . . .

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  4. It is amazing. While traveling, I have met many many Europeans and it seems like they all know at least 3+ languages...fluently. It's never too late!

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