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Started to learn English in secondary school at the age of 12. But the formal education didn't teach me much... In retrospect the only thing we were doing was grammar drills and vocabulary for 5 years straight lol and since I didn't do any homework or pay attention to the classes, I managed to do poorly on those things as well. Listening exams saved me from failing English, though, so I guess it evens out.
Nouw dey iss evry good von youquote:Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 23:44 schreef DikPropje het volgende:
I spoke a fair amount of English on a daily base for about 5 years. My writing is terrible but when I speak I mostly get confused for someone from 'somewhere in GB' even by the brits. Whereabouts they cant tell me.
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Mensen met...quotes in hun signature. :')
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It was me with the porridgespoon ingecast so to speak
"The only sight worse than a sad dwarf is a very sad dwarf"
"Met dubbel s welteverstaan"
"Met dubbel s welteverstaan"
More than 34 years (not sure how long exactly haven't gotten there yet)
En mochten we vallen dan is het omhoog. - Krang (uit: Pantani)
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard - John Cage
Water: ijskoud de hardste - Gehenna
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard - John Cage
Water: ijskoud de hardste - Gehenna
I am learning everyday. Mostly by Games, Films, Series, but offcourse also school. Currently, I am working for a company with the main office in the UK. But the company is in total English minded.
Of saté?
I kinda grew up with English, my father used to work with a lot of people from England who often came over to stay at our house.
But that was only talking, in writing only what I learned at school.
The last 3,5 years I have been talking English every single day, seeing by husband is Icelandic and I don't speak Icelandic.
Also because I live in Denmark and my Danish is not sufficient enough yet to always explain myself in Danish.
So my English has improved over the last years, but only in speaking, my writing is still not what it should be.
From what I hear i do not have a severe Dutch accent, and I'm happy about that.
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But that was only talking, in writing only what I learned at school.
The last 3,5 years I have been talking English every single day, seeing by husband is Icelandic and I don't speak Icelandic.
Also because I live in Denmark and my Danish is not sufficient enough yet to always explain myself in Danish.
So my English has improved over the last years, but only in speaking, my writing is still not what it should be.
From what I hear i do not have a severe Dutch accent, and I'm happy about that.
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"One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad."
About 3 years before I passed my CPE exam, counting from the first real class in English. Of course I knew some English before I went to high school.
Unfortunately, not practising on a regular basis has made me forget a lot.
Unfortunately, not practising on a regular basis has made me forget a lot.
Mediocre during high school.
Acceptable at university.
Perfect is something I do not aim for neither will it be easy, as I got a strong Dutch accent which one of my stupid roommates tends to find funny ... however at one point we had a new Australian roommate who visited us before we chose him, and I managed to make a joke not everybody understood within 5 minutes, so maybe I do better than I think.
Acceptable at university.
Perfect is something I do not aim for neither will it be easy, as I got a strong Dutch accent which one of my stupid roommates tends to find funny ... however at one point we had a new Australian roommate who visited us before we chose him, and I managed to make a joke not everybody understood within 5 minutes, so maybe I do better than I think.
fight my main saferquote:
As a kid I watched Tom and Jerry with subtitles. Watching English comedy on Belgian television, such as 'Dad's Army' and 'Are You Being Served?' was a favorite pastime. As time went on, I frequently turned off the translative subtitles in English media.
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I stopped speaking "English" when I started to say "y'all" in half of my sentences. Living for 11 years in 'the south' makes you do that.
Started at the age of 12. But I was never really good in it. Last year I did an internship in an English speaking country and I think I learned more in that half year than in all the years before.
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In this forum you can discuss just about anything, as long as you do it in the English language.
Who's Hanna?quote:
Or did you mean to say "Andra moi ennepe mousa"?
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Yes. Auto correct can be a bitch. It took me 6 years to learn a bit of ancient Greek by the way. Loved it, really want to do a refresher course one day!
Ja doei.
I hardly know any Greek at all, but there's more languages that i know nothing about, but that do have some nice sentences to use in daily life and i have somehow managed to collect a stack of those in my brain.quote:
Yes. Auto correct can be a bitch. It took me 6 years to learn a bit of ancient Greek by the way. Loved it, really want to do a refresher course one day!
This was one of them
And i for sure have no plans to learn Greek, I'm Dutch and run an English household in an Swiss/German area in a country where almost half the people speak French. Enough is enough.
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
I still know the alphabet of course, and how to pronounce most of it, even the differences in modern Greek, so it's nice to be able to make sense of things such as road signs when driving there (still on the to do list 
) But other than that, I just enjoyed it, as I did with learning Latin. But then again, I'm a language / literature lover
) But other than that, I just enjoyed it, as I did with learning Latin. But then again, I'm a language / literature lover
Ja doei.
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