| I've been thinking about this lady in San
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| | other monolingual Americans and locals
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| Miguel de Allende. I don't know her well.
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| | who speak English. In Asia during the
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| I've never met her, actually, but we have
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| | 1950's, the locals called the enclaved
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| corresponded. She told me that she's
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| | Americans The Social Incest Club.
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| tried learning Spanish. She's spent money
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| | What is so sad to me are those who want
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| she didn't have to attend classes that
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| | to learn the language and make a valiant
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| yielded little in the way of spoken
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| | attempt only to fail. They want to
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| fluency in the language. Her experience?
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| | significantly expand the social group
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| It's very typical. You come to Mexico,
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| | with which to have communion and
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| you might even come to live, and take
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| | fellowship but they can't. They are
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| classes only to find very little, if any,
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| | forced either to mingle with the
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| success in learning the language. Imagine
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| | Gringolandia "Social Incest Clubs"
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| the despair, the frustration, and the
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| | exclusively or they remain alone and
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| emptiness.
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| | isolated. These are motivated people who
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| I've seen a trend in the research I've
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| | need to know a secret.
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| been doing lately. I've been looking at
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| | The "Translation Method" of language
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| American expats in many different
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| | instruction, the method which dominates
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| countries involved from Foreign Service
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| | almost everywhere, by design cannot work
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| to simple retirement. The overwhelming
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| | to teach you spoken fluency.
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| common theme that dominates almost all of
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| | What are all the different language
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| the Americans in foreign countries is the
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| | instruction methods that have come down
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| linguistic inability to communicate with
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| | the pike in the last 100 years? Why are
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| the locals of the country.
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| | there so many methods and which ones, if
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| Some Americans, let's face it, do not
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| | any, really work?
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| want to learn the language. If they don't
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| | NEXT: What is the translation method?
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| have to, why bother? They associate with
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