Dearest
Grace:
Again,
THANK YOU so very much for your kind hospitality. Though we never made it to
your real home (which sounds to be very modern and attractive), we certainly
had a fine experience during our escapade through your larger home,
You, as
a linguist, are bound to fall in love with this language as others have with
our background, and not as a language of itself, but as a vehicle for teaching
other foreign languages.
If the
proof of the pudding, as we say, is in the eating, then E-o is good pudding. At
the meeting, several of the members were as new to Esperanto as I was/am, yet
we had no trouble holding a lively conversation. I was so excited, you have no
idea. Prior to last Saturday, I had never really used Esperanto in an actual
conversation with strangers. All I had done was what I suggest the learners in
our E:P:N classes do at the beginning and end of
everyone of their session: read, ponder, and then translate a proverb or saying
into that language, followed by a solicitation of feedback from relatives or
friends. In my case, I always used my dance students to get a feedback from. It
found it fascinating to discover how many ways there were of interpreting
famous sayings. In the field of selling, I’ve determined that the degree of
one’s understanding of these differences determines the degree of one’s success.
Grace,
I gave Mr. WEN Jingen one of my books for you and some printouts of a typical
3-way dialog with a “fly on the wall” giving a blow-by-blow description of what
is happening. Please contact him at 68994740 (office) or 82273068 9 (home) to
arrange a pickup and visit. He will guide you to find a club member you deem to
be most suitable for helping these people at the complexes. Instinct tells me
that the bubbly lady who showed us around will be a permanent part of whatever
manages to mature through this study. I’ve had the pleasure to work with a
teacher here in Orlando who could qualify as her (spiritual) twin sister. Their
vivaciousness and true caring is rare to say the least. I’ve always admired
these beautiful souls, along with angelic people like you and me, of course. J
Grace,
in reference to the text in the sheet protectors: I like that format because it
allows one to be there (virtually) while contrasting thoughts and feelings are
being expressed. This format would also help some of the “conversational
English” teachers, especially those still too young to have more than one point
of view. I think students at all levels deserve better. They need a teacher who has learned the craft
of comparing and contrasting opposing points of view. If you could somehow develop your thesis on
the value and impact of forensic trialogues, it would be a godsend to the
project. Even the dialogs from the award winning TV series back in the late
50’s titled “The Advocate” could be included in your corpora. They were
phenomenal dialogs. Each compelled you
to cast a verdict in his/her favor, thereby leaving viewers with the dilemma of
having to choose. It was back then that
I formed my first opinions on the E:P:N theorem,
noticing that whenever the twelve jurors were comprised of (what appeared to
be) more E’s and P’s than N’s, they generally were unable to reach a verdict. Let’s
talk.
IMPORTANT!
If you wish
that something be kept confidential, please indicate that clearly. For the sake
of the study, open discussions are the better choice, but I will honor anyone’s
request for privacy . . . on anything.
I look
forward to hearing from you after you make contact with Li (if I remember her
name correctly). You must be the judge about whether to first meet with Jingen
or go there first and get some sort of response to the suggestion (of them, or
at least her, learning a little Esperanto before my next visit). Next week I
will start the same approach with oldsters in an apartment complex here in
Have a
great day!
Enthusiastically,
Joe
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