LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Schuh, Germanic Languages, Peace Corps
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This paper compares some features of english and german, and it says some things about my experiences with these two languages and how my abilities in the two languages relate to those experiences. I was born and raised in the state of oregon. From the time i was about seven years old until i reached adulthood, my family lived in klamath falls, in southeastern oregon. Klamath falls is essentially a monolingual english-speaking town, and all the people i had any contact with there--family, friends, teachers, employers--used only english. As an undergraduate, i majored in french, and i spent two years in the peace. Corps in niger, a francophone african country, where i also began learning the hausa language. Thanks to this experience and periodic returns to french and hausa speaking areas, i speak both these languages relatively well, though certainly not at a native speaker level. The focus of this paper is not these languages, however, but rather on german.
