mr.sumo.snr <llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you're prepared to limit your English to grammatical constructions found
> in school textbooks.  Drop all your definite and indefinite articles.  Avoid
> using the plural form.  Have a somewhat grammatically lax attitude to mood,
> tense, aspect, and modality - especially avoiding the 'perfective'....then
> YES....you can have a conversation in English with a Junior High School
> Japanese English teacher - for a sentence or two.

Provided you speak slowly and clearly in katakana....

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