On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:25:05 -0700, "Bill Bonde ('by a commodius vicus
of recirculation')" <John.Methuen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>LANGUAGE EXCHANGE wrote:
>>
>> Message bilingue | Bilingual Message
>> ______________________________ญญ_______
>>
>> Experimental Project <> Projet pilote (free)
>>
>> Willing to help someone to learn your language?
>>
>> You're invited to help the French speak 'good' English (and vice
>> versa...)
>>
>I'd like to see a newsgroup called, say, alt.usage.language where people
>could provide help in one language and get help in another. Some of that
>happens in alt.usage.english and other groups but there doesn't seem to
>be any place dedicated to this sort of thing. At least that is getting
>used much.
>
>We could eventually add explicit groups which would expand the hierarchy
>from the a.u.spanish, a.u.german, a.u.icelandic to whatever groups would
>get traffic. Since there are groups hidden in non-English hierarchies
>where people are trying to learn better English and might be willing to
>help with others seeking to learn their languages, some sort of
>autoforwarding scheme might be helpful.
The French have beat us to it with fr.lettres.langue.anglais and the
others in that series, relating to several different languages. I
don't know about the rest, but the English-related newsgroup, in
French for the most part, is excellent.
--
Charles Riggs
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