Date sent: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:26:01 EST
Subject: Re: Diction (was Misheard Song Lyrics)
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a message dated 02/08/2000 12:55:01 PM Central Standard Time,
jjh-at-NebrWesleyan.edu writes:

<< I am absolutely green with envy that you get a whole semester on one
language! Shangri-la! Here, I have 1 measly credit (2 hours of "seat time"
per week) to teach English, French, German, and Italian! Oh the pain! At
the same time, I can't complain about it because this course was only
recently instituted here, at the firm insistence of my predecessor in the
job. In other words, we're lucky to have the 1 credit at all! >>

Actually, I was at a disadvantage because except for one student, NO ONE in
my class had ever had IPA - and several of them were seniors!! So I had to
really CRAM IPA down their throats. I think they need to add an IPA class
for freshman and then focus on the individual languages!!

Chris Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI

"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"