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RE:Lang.skills


Author:

Bjorn Are Stolen

Time:

29.01.2003 23:07

Text:

> I too have some experience with other languages. I learned
> French when I was very young, studied Japanese at
> university and I'm learning Cantonese (a Chinese dialect)
> from my wife. Yes, learning by doing is definitely the most
> effective. But I would argue that this is what is reflected
> by treating language acquisition in RQ as a matter of
> practice or research, rather than experience checks for
> this or that particularly stressful usage.
>
> Note that this also fits with your observations of rapid
> improvement at an early level which slacks off somewhat as
> fluency improves. By the research and training rules of
> RQ3, it takes all of one hour for someone with a 1% skill
> to qualify for an improvement roll. Once you hit 30%, you
> need 30 hours to improve, and so forth.


Yes, good arguments. To me, it's more a question wether you call talking to a travellingcompanion for 6 sucsesive days for research or experience. To mee, the recearch \training sounds a bit too alien to ring true in my ears.



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Bjorn Are Stolen 29.01.2003 23:07  
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