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January 10, 2014 7:47:58 AM

how to learn english

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January 10, 2014 7:57:37 AM

Take a class? Get an application like Rosetta Stone? Immerse yourself in another culture (like move to an English speaking country)?

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January 10, 2014 4:52:36 PM

COLGeek said:
Take a class? Get an application like Rosetta Stone? Immerse yourself in another culture (like move to an English speaking country)?
English I am an American. Go to night school if you want to learn English .

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January 11, 2014 12:19:03 PM

Just don't come to England - it's a dying language over here.
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January 11, 2014 4:41:41 PM

Saga Lout said:
Just don't come to England - it's a dying language over here.
Why do you say that may i ask you?

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January 11, 2014 11:38:01 PM

It's become quite hard to hear it on the streets because of mass immigration of people determined to keep to their own languages. Even immigrants from English speaking parts of the old Empire and Commonwealth of Nations - Jamaicans are a good example - have kept their own Patwa and slang versions thereof and are corrupting the English language.

On top of that is the younger generation's use of alternative spellings and the dreaded txtspk - SMS language they use on mobile (cell) 'phones.

Every generation has had its own lingo to hide what they're saying from the elders but this current crop seems determined to make theirs stick. I'm no stick in the mud and I recognise language must evolve but I care very much for English and fear it could die out from its present form.

I expect someone like me said the same in 1066 and thereafter when the Norman French invaders corrupted our native Anglo-Saxon but at least we had the chance to fight them off. Any mention of immigration over here or attempts to have serious debates about it is branded as racism and suppressed.
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January 12, 2014 12:20:30 AM

It started with a guy who wanted to learn english, and it ends with "French invaders who corrupted anglo-saxon language" ????!!!! ^^

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January 12, 2014 2:37:11 AM

Yeah gropouce ... its standard protocol for the English to blame the French.

We Aussies are thankfully half a world away gropouce ... but yes ... the French did invade England ... why though?

The place is freezing cold, has frack all natural resources, and the people are a miserable lot.

The French must have been working on "Improving" them ... a bit of the original "Colonialism" perhaps?

France certainly was a much more advanced culture at the time.

The British only managed to beat them in naval warfare by copying the French designed ships.



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January 12, 2014 3:19:08 AM

The French have always been envious of English food and cooking in general that's why they invaded! :ange: 
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January 12, 2014 3:55:24 AM

HAHA!
You forgot beaches and weather, MM ! ^^
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January 12, 2014 4:44:52 AM

I'm sure that's just a bonus, it's the food that causes all the jealousy. ;) 
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January 12, 2014 5:14:52 AM

MM I only posted those lies to tease you old buddy ...

I find French food fantastic but very rich.

I am quite partial to the traditional English roast though.

Call me backward.
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January 22, 2014 5:30:24 PM

Read more, write more, talk more please
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January 22, 2014 5:40:33 PM

Like any language, immerse yourself in books, take courses. Get an english tutor to educate you in the pronunciations of each word. Alas, i'm Scottish so i probably butcher the language under my heavy accent.
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January 22, 2014 11:28:57 PM

Some of the finest spoken English comes from Inverness. I'll give you the Gorbals isn't quite so hot. :D 
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January 23, 2014 12:44:35 PM

Don't talk about accents, that's my awkward since december...
i have to work in a prison for a while, and i question people who come from England, Iran, Irak, Albania, Croatia, etc..
We have to speak in english when they don't understand french or german...

awful moments for me...
as listener AND as speaker... you have no idea.

exept with this english guy... i wasn't able to ask any understandable medical question in english, so we talked about rugby, that was great ^^

Reading and writing on TH does help me a lot. i hope i improve my level.
But i really have to improve spoken language..
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January 31, 2014 4:23:06 PM

gropouce your english is improving in leaps and bounds.

Perhaps you should start a thread here in news and leisure called " cours de français pour les nuls".

Then we can learn a bit of French in return?

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January 31, 2014 4:26:53 PM

Get some of the guys from PresencePC to come over and join in?

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January 31, 2014 4:38:33 PM

alembrator said:
how to learn english
Go to night school if you are working during the day.Many good classes learning about English are available.
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February 2, 2014 2:52:36 AM

HAHA!!
Two problems, at least.

First, i don't have a clue about how to teach a language.
Second, i'm not sure my english is good enough.

edit : third problem, and maybe the worst: i think that people here really don't care about other languages.
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February 2, 2014 4:38:10 AM

I might be the exception to that, gropouce but it's why I try to avoid my fellow Englishmen when I'm abroad. It's not only embarrassing but most annoying to think they're so self-centred, they can't be bothered to learn languages. It's quite amusing to hear them try a few words of poorly pronounced French in Belgium and wonder why they can't be understood in almost half the country. :D  I had a reasonable command of some languages back when you would be granted fluency by the Foreign Office just for learning five hundred words, regardless of whether you could put a cohesive sentence together or not.

Sadly, it fades away with age and lack of use but now a form of English is virtually world-wide on the net, it probably matters less. The Francophone countries will never give up, of course, and Chinese will probably take over at some stage (can't wait for the Americans to adapt to that one) but I'm pressing on trying to get some languages back as an exercise in brain improvement.

Your English is very good by the way and surpasses any of the French I could ever manage. Charles de Gaulle had marched you all out of NATO the year before I was Shangheidposted into SHAPE so we never bothered with it. The Walloons had to fit in with the rest of us.

Happy days.
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February 3, 2014 5:33:45 AM

Yeah, we're the minority...
Foreing languages always interested me.
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And my government is saying that french sucks at foreign languages for 20 years... i'm upset with that.
So, ok, we have this kind of guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JulmkVVfyDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=304UHIZE01c

But f**k it!!
i can understand french, english, german, italian, a few japanese and i start to learn spanish.
I even had to learn LATIN in school... and translate some text from the first century...
And the badest english speakers of my country are complaining about our "lack of efforts in foreign languages"... CONNARDS! (sorry, but french swear words are the bests)
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I don't think that our american friends will have to adapt to chinese languages in any time...
China has too many languages.


I still need some times to get the rest of your message :D 
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February 3, 2014 8:50:28 AM

Oldmangamer_73 said:
We'll adapt just fine to Chinese. Haven't you seen the show Firefly? We learn to curse quite well in Chinese. :) 


:lol: 
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February 6, 2014 3:25:50 PM

I speak no Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) beyond yes and no and thank you.

French and German no problem ... since I did these at school.

I spend quite a bit of time helping a chinese mech eng who is working on part of my project - I edit her poor English on documentation and she teaches me construction assurance - its a good deal. She is very polite, patient and thorough, and I have a lot of respect for her.

I just don't want to see chicken feet on my plate at lunch ...

:) 
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February 6, 2014 4:41:03 PM

Saga Lout said:
It's become quite hard to hear it on the streets because of mass immigration of people determined to keep to their own languages. Even immigrants from English speaking parts of the old Empire and Commonwealth of Nations - Jamaicans are a good example - have kept their own Patwa and slang versions thereof and are corrupting the English language.

On top of that is the younger generation's use of alternative spellings and the dreaded txtspk - SMS language they use on mobile (cell) 'phones.

Every generation has had its own lingo to hide what they're saying from the elders but this current crop seems determined to make theirs stick. I'm no stick in the mud and I recognise language must evolve but I care very much for English and fear it could die out from its present form.

I expect someone like me said the same in 1066 and thereafter when the Norman French invaders corrupted our native Anglo-Saxon but at least we had the chance to fight them off. Any mention of immigration over here or attempts to have serious debates about it is branded as racism and suppressed.
Very sad indeed to hear this.

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February 11, 2014 11:14:20 AM

watch movies.tv series like FRIENDS.
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