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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:08 am    Post subject: Vanessa and Scorpia and Henk and English Reply with quote

((Vanessa et al,

I've been meaning to say this for a bit now. You're English is very good. You really shouldn't be embarassed by it. For that matter, Scorpia and Henk do very well with English.

If nothing else, your English is way better than my Italian... and I took Latin for four years, so I should at least be passable at Italian.

Anyhow, don't fret about it. It's freaking awesome that you're bi-lingual. I'd love to be bi-lingual.))
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*Hugs Caroline*
Thank you so much sweetie! Very Happy It warms my heart to hear, since I often fear the quality of my english.
In my country we learn english in third grade, but many of us know a little of the basic even earlier due to so much english in TV and music. Razz
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think your English is better than some Americans i like to call it 'Americanese' lol

actually for having English as a second language you do better than some Mexicans over here in my home town
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well miss scorpia your english is in my books perfect.

as for me im half english half australian so english is my main language, but i can speak good spanish and a little french but as i live in australia the need of those language's never come up.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its not bad to be bilingual. I speak a limited amount of various languages from around the world, but its nothing compared to actually being able to speak two languages fluently. I applaud miss Vanessa's and anybody else who can speak english (Makes it easier for me to understand)
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hoshiginiro wrote:
I think your English is better than some Americans i like to call it 'Americanese' lol


For good reason. It's not the same language anymore. Having been to England i can say this from personal experience. There's a reason that line from my fair lady is so sad, and yet so funny.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone makes adjustments. Thank you miss Vanessa for putting up with all of us.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scorpia, is english your second language? I guess I never realised, you do awesome!
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Scorpia, is english your second language? I guess I never realised, you do awesome!

Thank you sweetie. My native language is danish. I am from Denmark, a small country in northen europe.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you, too kind with me
I have get away with the "present" but I always have some problems with the "past" of the verbs. Embarassed
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thank you, too kind with me
I have get away with the "present" but I always have some problems with the "past" of the verbs. Embarassed
Yeah, English is a confusing language, even for those of us who speak it fluently. (not that I am one of those people)

example, Japanese have no tenses, no past tense, no future tense... go from that to a language with an entire subsection for tenses and you just sit there and scratch your head with a dumb look on your face as you try to make sense of it all.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A lot of people seem to think that English is a hard second language, and yet, you guys seem to have been using it for years. You even best me at grammer sometimes, and I'm American. Tongue
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BioRust wrote:
A lot of people seem to think that English is a hard second language, and yet, you guys seem to have been using it for years. You even best me at grammer sometimes, and I'm American. Tongue
Bio you got to take into fact of all the redneck and spanglish slang terms in america
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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BioRust wrote:
A lot of people seem to think that English is a hard second language, and yet, you guys seem to have been using it for years. You even best me at grammer sometimes, and I'm American. Tongue
Bio you got to take into fact of all the redneck and spanglish slang terms in america
AKA americanese!
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Speaking of which I've always wondered why Americans spell words like Colour as "Color" and Pronounce Aluminium different etc. *Shrugs*
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Speaking of which I've always wondered why Americans spell words like Colour as "Color" and Pronounce Aluminium different etc. *Shrugs*
in americanese colour is pronounced differently than color as are many other words
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks but I was wondering "Why" though
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats how I've always spelled it. Its probably cause americans wanted to be different from the rest of the world, so the early americans taught their children how to do things "Americanized".

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BioRust wrote:
A lot of people seem to think that English is a hard second language, and yet, you guys seem to have been using it for years. You even best me at grammer sometimes, and I'm American. Tongue
Bio you got to take into fact of all the redneck and spanglish slang terms in america

Oh yeah... git 'er done
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maxwell The Tiger wrote:
Thanks but I was wondering "Why" though
that is the why we pronounce it differently therefore we spell it different
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's no intentional reason why American English varies from English in the UK. Just the natural drifting of a living language into distinctive dialects and accents. After all, there's been more than 200 years of separation and there was little mass cultural mixing between them for a while. More years if you count the colonial period. And spelling wasn't standardized for much of it, either.

I'm a big admirer of anyone who can speak multiple languages. With English being (ironically) the lingua franca, native speakers are under very little pressure to pick up another, sadly. My Spanish is rusty through lack of use. And my German and Latin are hardly functional.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

((If I remember correctly, Kiala Tigara also speaks English as a second language. And she does it pretty well too.

Maxwell,

As to the "color" vs "colour", you can blame Webster.

When Webster went to write his legendary dictionary, he wanted to make language more accessible to the common folk. So... he shortened extra vowel sounds in an effort to make printed words cheaper. A lot of printers made you pay extra for vowels, since they were used so much more often than consonants. So... Webster was trying to make English a cheaper language to write and print.))
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Caroline wrote:
((If I remember correctly, Kiala Tigara also speaks English as a second language. And she does it pretty well too.

Maxwell,

As to the "color" vs "colour", you can blame Webster.

When Webster went to write his legendary dictionary, he wanted to make language more accessible to the common folk. So... he shortened extra vowel sounds in an effort to make printed words cheaper. A lot of printers made you pay extra for vowels, since they were used so much more often than consonants. So... Webster was trying to make English a cheaper language to write and print.))


That could be a reason why the English in the USA is horrible and also why there is so much slang words being used these days! Evil or Very Mad

I personaly would prefer a world without any kind of slang words in it! Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well I know ser henk and miss caroline are not american and the same goes with miss vanessa =3 but your english is very good

as for miss scorpia, now your english as a second language is very very good as well, even though I knew ya from denmark x3

hmm....
well just letting ya guys know i am not american as well, i'm from Indonesia

PS: ohhh miss caroline knows? x3 thanks
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am not an American either, and I don't mean to insult anyone but I'm kind of glad I'm not!

Being an American would be so boring! Mad

And knowing two languages is something to be proud of, specially if one is fluent with both in writing and speaking! Wink

*Takes a flag from his native country and waves it around*

Being bilingual ROCKS! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Que es la problema con Americanos? (Or norteamericanos. Americanos latinos tienen una problema con 'Americano' por las Estadas Unidas solamente :p)

It's as boring as you wish to make it. And many work hard to master a few tongues. Just it seems we can never learn the ones people want us to.

Too many languages... Heck, I don't think I've even heard Danish spoken aloud. And I must confess to total ignorance of what language(s) are spoken in Indonesia. I know enough to not guess it is 'Indonesian.' Maybe a relative of Tagalog? I doubt Dutch is still spoken there...

It's not a small world after all. :p
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy If you want to hear some, here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgtqAQQjDwQ
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kommy wrote:
Que es la problema con Americanos? (Or norteamericanos. Americanos latinos tienen una problema con 'Americano' por las Estadas Unidas solamente :p)


You can talk spanish too Ms. Kommy?
It is as you said, we work hard to learn the ones that others don't.

(I will correct you're spanish Ms. Kommy. Sorry if it makes me sound like a jackass.
"Que es el problema con Americanos? (O Norteamericanos.) Americanos latinos tienen un problema con 'Americano' por los Estados Unidos solamente."
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh well, i'm from italy as well, english is my second language XP
I even tried to learn French as well but...kinda hard X.x

(also, i know few russians words XP )
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Eh, I always get the genders mixed up and my sentence structure is habitually very Germanic/English no matter what I try to write. My Spanish is always rusty and barely fluent. I blame lack of practice and that what practice I get is always with wildly different dialects. Spain, Mexico, and Cuba all have different takes on it which I've had to cope with, not to mention the anglicized Spanglish that crops up here. Razz

Always thought that 'United States' was feminine... Ah well.
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Que es la problema con Americanos? (Or norteamericanos. Americanos latinos tienen una problema con 'Americano' por las Estadas Unidas solamente :p)


La verdad es que inglés americano es inluenced por la cultura de mayoría excepto en los Estados del centro como wyoming y montana, donde viven los rednecks. Pero thats junto al inglés americano de punto es como jugar masa que puede ser meleded en qué pasaría siempre la whants de altavoz para ser o simplemente dejó solo.

Thats what i got to say about that

That was a really informative video miss scorpia it taught me Danish better then my spanish teacher attempting to teach me spanish i would laugh when he miss pronounced the words or phrases i would correct him and he would throw me out of class out of embaressment
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