my favourite spain experience was travelling between two towns a kilometer apart and having the locals in the second town speak an entirely different dialect
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f'real. Spanish isn't so much a language as a family of kind-of related languages that may or may not be mutually intelligible.
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Em, just roll withit. You may be interpreting new awareness as anxiety, when it reality, it's just you adding a wing on the side of your mind. Also, learning a new language, the system for processing your native tongue is getting under-used, so gossip before bed:). Huggles.
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No, I am pretty well-familiar with my diagnosed anxiety.
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Just remember that pain in your stomach is a fact, but a diagnosis is a verbal model, and the map isn't the territory any more than a menu is the meal.
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No, anxiety is actually real.
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No, we're not disagreeing. I have it too. What I _am_ saying, is that a "diagnosis" is a construct of language and law even more than of medicine. We end up getting in a crossfire between something real which is causing us pain and the verbal model which may describe it.
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Medicine is the least scientific of all the tech disciplines, and the laws/lawyers which drive it render it very slow and unresponsive,,,which is what we want, of course. But in cases where it's US (personally) it doesn't hurt to be able to make informed decisions.
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People who succeed in medicine are doctrinaire and regard authoritative pronouncements as above even their own observation. Again, not a flaw EXCEPT when the decision-maker's experience is atypical. See what I'm getting at? Intelligence reserves the right of final veto.
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See, a nice young GP tried to convince me that the sumatryptan wasn't triggering DAILY(!) migraines because that wasn't in their counterindications specs. But it was, and if I'd followed advice, I might have come to a premature end. Why? Because...
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I have anxiety when using other languages, too. But then I listened to the
@Lingthusiasm episode on learning languages linguistically and their non-judge-y discussion of fluency made me feel so much better. Still a bit anxious, but manageably so.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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4. I guarantee you that phrases like "You know, the thing, with the stuff" exist in *every* language.
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People mumble, use colloquialisms AND people in cities talk faster than in less populated areas. As part of AFS as a teen, in the countryside of Lyons my French was fine. In Paris I was looked at as the slow American because I kept asking ppl to repeat themselves.
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I agree. Had this same experience in the 80s going to Paris after living a while in Aix-en-Provence.
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4. There are contractions and slang (I've heard it called "Kitchen German") 5. Native speakers talk fast.
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Dealing with Chinese regional accents just about drove me mad the first few years. Actually, I think it did, and now I'm just calmly mad.
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And then there are dialects. High school French was useful in Paris, Brussels (mostly), Tahiti (surprisingly so; I was mistaken for Canadian), but not Montreal.
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Oh but don’t encourage that “Québécois don’t speak real French” trope that’s all too common in western Canada. It’s just French. With a strong accent and some different expressions, maybe. But it’s about as different from European French as American is from British English.
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#3 is never in the brochure
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