How long did it take for you to learn English?
And where did you learn it?
I learned a lot from games and movies, but learned a lot in school too.
I probably took 4 serious years of learning, which made me an okay speaker.
How about you guys?
I'm sorry, you're in a cult?quote:Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 23:40 schreef Hyaenidae het volgende:
Ai lurnt it in trie dees wen ai wos u littel boj, i ken spiek it fluwentlie but wraiting is diffie kult.
Jes joe ar wan of de smartust bojs on urt.quote:Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 23:39 schreef LompeHork het volgende:
T.V. and books mostly, didn't take me any effort at all. Grade-and middle-school English was a walk through the park.
Just keep actively using it on a regular base.quote:
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I literally just wrote that in the OP!quote:Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 23:47 schreef Opsonisatie het volgende:
Since when are you speaking English this good, FallendownFlat
Your grammar sucks mate.quote:
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Just keep actively using it on a regular base.
Educate mequote:
I didn't expect you to be this bad at English.quote:
Since when are you speaking English this good, FallendownFlat
Pee break
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Whad r u talkin' 'bout im an expert englishistquote:Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 23:58 schreef Spatieloos het volgende:
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I didn't expect you to be this bad at English.
No, I'm lazy.quote:
You even suck at speaking it terribly.quote:
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Whad r u talkin' 'bout im an expert englishist
I think that over the last years 95% (if not more) of my thoughts even are in English. If it would be up to me Fok! would change fully into an English site. Would also mean we get rid of a bunch of the current trolls.
I tend to believe that when it comes to writing my English is better than my Dutch writing as for spelling errors
Have been living in the UK for 4.5 years now, and have been told to have a proper Barnsley accent of which I'm very proud
For example Southpark or streetlanguage (by hiphop). We are never done learning.
I think I am rather well in English and still make a lot of mistakes.
At school I had al lot of English, but not until the "mavo." Than the meao, and it continued on the heao, but only till the second year.
Of course the were movies, but music lyrics were very important for me. That was the most important source for speaking in normal conversations ( as in non- business language like V.A.T.- vallue added taxes - and that kind of business/ tax language).
Still, I think we do not have to be ashamed for not speaking or writing fluently English. As long as they understand what we are talking about, and as they don't speak Dutch. .
We often speak 3 languages, the avarage Englishman speaks two languages at most.
Nouw dey iss evry good von youquote:
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.
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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Unfortunately, not practising on a regular basis has made me forget a lot.
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:
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.quote:
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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"?
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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) But other than that, I just enjoyed it, as I did with learning Latin. But then again, I'm a language / literature lover How many languages do you know yourself?quote:
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
I never was a language lover, but being sorta forced into it did made me appreciate different languages more.
German is OK-ish, same as French. Have to get that back up to an acceptable level too. Once I'm in Germany/France for a couple of days things go quite well, but it's not 'brilliant', it's 'I can explain who I am, where I'm from and what I'm doing'
. Still want to learn Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian.
I have the same with German and i would love to learn French! And also better Icelandic, i can understand and read it a bit but i can't talk it.quote:
Dutch and English are fluent and native/near-native.
German is OK-ish, same as French. Have to get that back up to an acceptable level too. Once I'm in Germany/France for a couple of days things go quite well, but it's not 'brilliant', it's 'I can explain who I am, where I'm from and what I'm doing'
Still want to learn Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian.
I used babbel.com for Danish, i will probably use it more often in the future for other languages.
I'm a French native, my English is.. uhh.. idk, intermediate, I'm also doing Spanish at school (unfortunately) and learning Dutch on my free-time (and I don't have a lot anymore --").quote:
How many languages do you know yourself?
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You can teach me French and i can teach you Dutch, hahaha.quote:
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I'm a French native, my English is.. uhh.. idk, intermediate, I'm also doing Spanish at school (unfortunately) and learning Dutch on my free-time (and I don't have a lot anymore --").
Are you also living in France?
Of course, in the most beautiful land of France -> Burgundy!quote:
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You can teach me French and i can teach you Dutch, hahaha.
Are you also living in France?
Nice!quote:
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Of course, in the most beautiful land of France -> Burgundy!