Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Lost ticket

Jeffrey is learning German.
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Jeffrey: Ich habe mine Fakarte verloren.

Lorna: What?

Jeffrey: I’ve lost my ticket. Just practicing. I’m sure that’s the first sentence I’ll need on the train in Germany next week.

Lorna: A needs-driven analysis of language learning?

Jeffrey: Good book this. User friendly. Decent art work. Speech balloons. Subtitles. Transliterations. Not a bad book for learning a language.

Lorna: Multimedia?

Jeffrey: And it’s old. Published 1982.

Lorna: Pre-internet? Ahead of its time.
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