>>Hi All, but esp. Dragan and Terry.
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>>In my Dutch newspaper of today there is the story of a French teacher (a teacher of French, not a Frenchman) who is currently sueing an employer for not wanting to hire him. The employer is a private, commercial school where adults can learn various foreign languages. The employer only wants native speakers as teacher. This person is a Dutchman who claims to have a better knowledge of current French than many of the employed native French speakers. He claims to know 28.000 French sentences by head, to know all current developments in that language, that many of those native speakers may have been born over there, but may have left their home country more than 20 years ago. She, the employer, feels 'insulted' by him because he says she discriminates him.
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>>So, what's your opinion guys.
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>I remember I read that an ordinary person uses just 500 words for daily talking... One of my cousins can read just headings of newspapers (even with tabloids). I'm sure a foreigner at university can be better....
>I remembered from primary school. My near classmate were failed turkish lesson. A girl were just came from Australia that year with limited turkish, she passed turkish lesson end of the year... :))
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