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[arisha]

Today my entire family stayed home being sick. I had some very weird dreams this morning, including a Plains of Abraham mention. Apparently I haven't forgotten all of what I learned in grade nine social studies, after all. >_<; I have been reading Bob Brier's The Murder of Tutankhamen all day and for some reason it's creeping me out. I feel terrible terrible but have to go to school tomorrow for my French and Spanish listening exams ... I hope Sra. lets me leave my oral Spanish exam till Friday, 'cause my throat hurts too much to talk right now. *whine whine whine*

In other news, I have now watched both the French and Spanish versions of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, and though I have studied Spanish for less than half the time that I've studied French, I understood more of the Spanish version. What the heck!!!

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[lkh.livejournal.com]

The fact that you understood the Spanish better probably has to do with the liaisons in spoken French. I never realized until I started living here (and I had studied French for several years) exactly how much spoken French sounds like one continuous word. It takes a lot of listening and practice before you train your ear to listen for the difference between long words and liaisons between words. Spanish has a more Anglophone way of speaking, each word is separate where the desire within spoken French is to continue a flowing sentence. Just an opinion...
Laura