GregTheGreat
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British English all the way!
Also a little bit of French and German from school.
Also a little bit of French and German from school.
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Well I live in Britain. Brought up in the North and then moved to Scotland so I have an... Intresting accent. 
English is my first language and only one I can speak semi-fluently. I also know a tad of German. Hoping to learn more as English is quite similar to German.
Oh. And as for that person saying that American English is better then ENGLISH English... You deserve to be taken outside and shot. American English has MASSACRED the English language! *grins and runs away from the irate Americans*
English is my first language and only one I can speak semi-fluently. I also know a tad of German. Hoping to learn more as English is quite similar to German.Oh. And as for that person saying that American English is better then ENGLISH English... You deserve to be taken outside and shot.
American English has MASSACRED the English language! *grins and runs away from the irate Americans*I agree with Larask... American English has turned into, "Like oh my God, she was like you are like so stupid. I was like you're like so wrong. He said he was like going all the way with that other pretty girl. And I was like what a slut."
British English rocks. I wish I could say, "Bloody" and not sound so horrible.
Anyways, would any of you be willing to help with any Spanish homework I have, if I need it?
English is by far the one of the hardest languages to learn. A whole bunch of rules. A whole bunch of broken rules. Way too many exceptions. I'll go with Spanish being the easiest, 'cause of the whole phonetics thing.
British English rocks. I wish I could say, "Bloody" and not sound so horrible.
Anyways, would any of you be willing to help with any Spanish homework I have, if I need it?
English is by far the one of the hardest languages to learn. A whole bunch of rules. A whole bunch of broken rules. Way too many exceptions. I'll go with Spanish being the easiest, 'cause of the whole phonetics thing.
Feceset said:
I speak US English, and that never stopped me from using "bloody" like a Brit :teeth:
I'll help you with Spanish if you need it, I think it's fun! :thumbsup:
Just remember that if you've got a big assignment that you want looked over, give me a little extra time
Kaysaar said:Just remember that if you've got a big assignment that you want looked over, give me a little extra time
Thanks for volunteering. It'll prolly be a while before I need any actual help.
We're learning what ¿Qué?, ¿Cual?, ¿Por qué?, etc. are. Nothing remotley hard.
JicamaEater
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I speak english, I think it's a funny language 
. I don't like to think of language like a set of rules regarding syntax, but as a means of communication. So fairly often I don't actually speak "English" but my own way of emphasizing what I want to say. I also don't give a darn about s's and z's, I don't know how to spell a lot of words, and as long as people can understand me it doesn't matter either (I got fourth place in a Spelling Bee in second grade, but I don't know how to spell normal words. I can spell all sorts of obscure words that most dictionaries don't have, and cannot spell "believe" correctly.)
I'm taking 3rd year Spanish, much to the chagrin of my school's International Baccalaureate coordinator, and my teacher who has hopefully realized by now that I don't think that I'm going to be in trouble in Mexico just because I used a feminine adjective on "tazon." :teeth:
(I hope tazon is a masculine noun in Spanish...)
. I don't like to think of language like a set of rules regarding syntax, but as a means of communication. So fairly often I don't actually speak "English" but my own way of emphasizing what I want to say. I also don't give a darn about s's and z's, I don't know how to spell a lot of words, and as long as people can understand me it doesn't matter either (I got fourth place in a Spelling Bee in second grade, but I don't know how to spell normal words. I can spell all sorts of obscure words that most dictionaries don't have, and cannot spell "believe" correctly.)I'm taking 3rd year Spanish, much to the chagrin of my school's International Baccalaureate coordinator, and my teacher who has hopefully realized by now that I don't think that I'm going to be in trouble in Mexico just because I used a feminine adjective on "tazon." :teeth:
(I hope tazon is a masculine noun in Spanish...)
Singaporean here so we grow up here speaking english. It might sound mutated/butchered by British purists but I'm quite comfortable :lol: We've got a few words like "lah", "loh" "yah" in our sentances which of now, I don't believe you can find in the dictionary (yet!)
I can say "bloody hell!" in an authentic British (Midlands) accent.
Technically, I also speak/write mandarin (learned it as a mother-tongue) and speak a smuttering of related dialects.
I've tried to pick-up German, French and Japanese but I fail miserably
Languages are one of my (many) weak points. I can however, say the phrase "can you speak english?" in several languages :lol:
I can say "bloody hell!" in an authentic British (Midlands) accent.
Technically, I also speak/write mandarin (learned it as a mother-tongue) and speak a smuttering of related dialects.
I've tried to pick-up German, French and Japanese but I fail miserably
Languages are one of my (many) weak points. I can however, say the phrase "can you speak english?" in several languages :lol:
Social Suicide
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Spanish is my native language (born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico), and I also speak some english.
To all that say spanish is easiest to learn: Well yeah, the basics and stuff, but there's like at least 17 country's all with different pronounciations, slang and dialects so you can't just take spanish courses and easily understand everything someone (for example a mexican or an argentinian) is saying, that and the adition of specific area slang, like here in mexico, (or even in the USA for that matter) someone from the north doesn't speak at all like someone from the south, and that's just in one country.
To all that say spanish is easiest to learn: Well yeah, the basics and stuff, but there's like at least 17 country's all with different pronounciations, slang and dialects so you can't just take spanish courses and easily understand everything someone (for example a mexican or an argentinian) is saying, that and the adition of specific area slang, like here in mexico, (or even in the USA for that matter) someone from the north doesn't speak at all like someone from the south, and that's just in one country.
That's very true about the slang, but the good thing about Spanish is that the fundamentals are the same across the board (save Argentina). The Spanish I learned in High School was Mexican Spanish, and I studied in Mexico first. I find that I can understand just about everything save the obscure slang, but the same holds true in the US. I can hardly figure out what some people say sometimes .
But I see your point Social, but that also holds true for all languages that are globally spoken. I cursed in Spain, and they immediately told me that I was using a Mexican curse :uhhuh:
One of my favorite things about Spanish is how words in one area can mean entirely different things in other areas. Like Bicho for example... :lol:
. But I see your point Social, but that also holds true for all languages that are globally spoken. I cursed in Spain, and they immediately told me that I was using a Mexican curse :uhhuh:
One of my favorite things about Spanish is how words in one area can mean entirely different things in other areas. Like Bicho for example... :lol:
Wolfgang Abenteuer
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Kaysaar said:
Heh...whenever I spell I nearly always use the British English spelling of words (neighbour, realise, etc.) because most of the people I speak with online are British or use the British spellings, so I've sort of adapted. 'Course, people give me funny looks here in Seattle when I start calling people "sods".
~Wolfgang
Social, my Spanish teacher said the exact same thing to us. Except there are 21 countries who officially speak Spanish not 17.
Did any of you Italien, or Spanish speakers know that you can converse, and pretty much fully understand eachother?
I think that's very cool, and I hope to be able to do that one day with my Spanish. And possibly learn Italien. I love learning other languages, I'm just not good at it.
Did any of you Italien, or Spanish speakers know that you can converse, and pretty much fully understand eachother?
I think that's very cool, and I hope to be able to do that one day with my Spanish. And possibly learn Italien. I love learning other languages, I'm just not good at it.
Wolfgang Abenteuer
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I'm able to understand a bit of written Spanish and Italian, just based on the amount of French I know and the similarities between those Latin languages, but very little in Latin itself. Don't speak either of them to me, though, or you're likely to get a pretty funny look! :teeth:
~Wolfgang
~Wolfgang
ricrestoni
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Faceset, i found English extremely easy and practical to learn. Even having latin origins I find french, for example way harder. German is insane - I guess the easterner the messier! Won't even try cyrilic stuff, arabic, japanese or chinese - those are way out of range for me.
But English is surprisingly easy - a fact that is not obvious for some native English-speaking of you.
But English is surprisingly easy - a fact that is not obvious for some native English-speaking of you.
In New Zealand there are 2 national languages - English (british spelling) and Maori.
I left school in '93 but apparently just after that Maori became a compulsary subject in schools. (someone from Nz will confirm)
The national anthem is now sung in both languages at major sporting events.
The hardest language for me to learn was Australian :lol:
-Grogs
I left school in '93 but apparently just after that Maori became a compulsary subject in schools. (someone from Nz will confirm)
The national anthem is now sung in both languages at major sporting events.
The hardest language for me to learn was Australian :lol:
-Grogs
ricrestoni, by learning English do you mean just reading, writing and speaking, or the whole thing; rules and everything?
I find that all the rules and exceptions way too hard to memorize. I know when something should be capitalized, but not why. As many of you may have seen, my grammar isn't that great. For some reason though, when I write a paper it's either perfect, or near perfect grammar. I guess when I'm writing something that depends on how much time I do get to spend doing whatever I want.
The two things I'm the worst at in English is vocabulary, and spelling. Vocabulary as in how many words I know, and what they mean.
Wolfgang, it's the same way for me. Italien, Spanish, and French are all Romantic languages or something like that.
I don't know any Italien but ¿Por qué?(Spanish) and Pourquoi?(French) both mean "why?". See the similarities?
I find that all the rules and exceptions way too hard to memorize. I know when something should be capitalized, but not why. As many of you may have seen, my grammar isn't that great. For some reason though, when I write a paper it's either perfect, or near perfect grammar. I guess when I'm writing something that depends on how much time I do get to spend doing whatever I want.
The two things I'm the worst at in English is vocabulary, and spelling. Vocabulary as in how many words I know, and what they mean.
Wolfgang, it's the same way for me. Italien, Spanish, and French are all Romantic languages or something like that.
I don't know any Italien but ¿Por qué?(Spanish) and Pourquoi?(French) both mean "why?". See the similarities?
DeathMaster
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Larask said:Oh. And as for that person saying that American English is better then ENGLISH English... You deserve to be taken outside and shot.
then you gonna explain to me why in *bloody" English english, er/or/our/re sound same. Why not spell as color, it is good, simple, logic; colour is just stupid. (and why Center spells like Centre, it is just wrong, Centre should sound like cen-try rather than cen-ter) :lol: There are other things I think american English are much superior, even swearing in English english doesn't sound right to me....