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Great souvenir
and did you record him saying the name too.
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No, but believe it or not, they have a small
cassette tape in a souvenir shop, which puts the
name of the town to a song, and I bought that.
The whole thing started way back in elementary school where
I loved geography, and in our geography text was a picture
of the trainstation of this town with the sign with its name.
And when we reached Llanfair I remembered it so many years
later. So it is really a good memory. I have a picture
of the boy carving the town's name on the slate as well.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Carpal Tunnel
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I've been to that town in Wales.
What a nice memory. The fluency rate in Welsh is about 90% in that area around there.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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As a high school teacher myself at the time, I stopped
across from a school where three boys were having lunch
outside on a wall built around it. I asked them their
ages and 12 was the median. We talked awhile and I asked
them how many languages they spoke. They argued in Welsh
(I presume) for awhile and then each listed what he
spoke. Each told me five, not all the same, but each
spoke five languages and studied Latin as well. Needless
to say I was impressed, and a little discouraged for our
kids in USA. But still it was memorable.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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