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Johnathan, I will go slow for you then, in a survey talked about on the Radio this last Monday Polish was the most common foreign language used on these shores with half a million recognising it as their first language to be used, Romanian was the second most commonly talked foreign language in Britain. F**K, Mother F***er, Ausie B*****d etc were the most recognised English words by non English speaking foreigners.
Can anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.
Quote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.
Can anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.[/quoteI speak German with a Niedersasche accent, so pass for a German when in Deutcheland
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 01:35:10 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.Italian is a beautiful sounding language. I've just researched and found that after English, the most spoken languages in the world are Mandarin, Hindi, French, and Spanish.I love languages. My only regret is that I got my TEFL qualification too late in life to use it.
Iberian Red is happy to come on here virtue signalling while living in the most racial country in Europe. Push illegal immigrants straight through into other countries back yard, and Brutally put down the Catalan movement when the rest of the EU just closed their eyes. No cries of crimes against humanity, no going to court in the Hague, and the ECJ just closed ranks, while the police went on a craze of beating everyone in sight up.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 01:35:10 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.Offensive to Italians, You better than most should know this. Something done similar about any ethnic language would of had some on here up in arms.
It's a case of faux outrage#Just like me being accused of phobias when I was clearly saying a certain poster was a man that enjoyed satisfying himself.
Quote from: scawsby steve on March 14, 2024, 02:09:48 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 01:35:10 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.Italian is a beautiful sounding language. I've just researched and found that after English, the most spoken languages in the world are Mandarin, Hindi, French, and Spanish.I love languages. My only regret is that I got my TEFL qualification too late in life to use it.That's a pity SS.A TEFL or TESOL qualification is an opportunity to work nearly anywhere in the world,this some of the more interesting countries won't give visas to over 40s.
Quote from: Iberian Red on March 14, 2024, 05:01:25 pmQuote from: scawsby steve on March 14, 2024, 02:09:48 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 01:35:10 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.Italian is a beautiful sounding language. I've just researched and found that after English, the most spoken languages in the world are Mandarin, Hindi, French, and Spanish.I love languages. My only regret is that I got my TEFL qualification too late in life to use it.That's a pity SS.A TEFL or TESOL qualification is an opportunity to work nearly anywhere in the world,this some of the more interesting countries won't give visas to over 40s.That won't worry SS, he's not far off getting his birthday card from the King, so getting a visa isn't on his bucket list
Quote from: danumdon on March 14, 2024, 03:14:56 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 01:35:10 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.Offensive to Italians, You better than most should know this. Something done similar about any ethnic language would of had some on here up in arms.God help us. Does EVERY exchange have to end up like this.It is not in any way whatsoever offensive. There is a reason why how their language spoken by them sounds different to their language spoken with an English lilt, exactly as NNK reflected on. Italian DOES have a vowel at the end of pretty much every word, and that gives the spoken language a certain rhythm. It's precisely why an Italian who is not very experienced at speaking English tends to add a vowel-a sound-a at the end of every word. Because it is unnatural for them to end words with a hard consonant. There's nothing offensive about noting that. It is a fact.Equally, it is difficult for us native English speakers to get used to a language that doesn't have words ending in hard consonants. There's a tendency for us to put the emphasis in the wrong place. In particular, they almost never put the emphasis on the final vowel, and when we do, that sounds just like a foreigner speaking Italian badly. When I started consciously trying to mimic the way Italians pronounce the final vowel, everything else suddenly became easy. Like I automatically knew where the emphasis should go.
Quote from: ravenrover on March 14, 2024, 08:00:40 pmQuote from: Iberian Red on March 14, 2024, 05:01:25 pmQuote from: scawsby steve on March 14, 2024, 02:09:48 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 01:35:10 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.Italian is a beautiful sounding language. I've just researched and found that after English, the most spoken languages in the world are Mandarin, Hindi, French, and Spanish.I love languages. My only regret is that I got my TEFL qualification too late in life to use it.That's a pity SS.A TEFL or TESOL qualification is an opportunity to work nearly anywhere in the world,this some of the more interesting countries won't give visas to over 40s.That won't worry SS, he's not far off getting his birthday card from the King, so getting a visa isn't on his bucket listCheeky bugger. That's it, Raven, you're definitely not in the team on Sunday.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 05:21:43 pmQuote from: danumdon on March 14, 2024, 03:14:56 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 14, 2024, 01:35:10 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.Learning to speak another language is an adventure. It broadens your mind. I've got passable Italian, taught to me by my half-Italian wife. It's a beautiful language. Elegant, poetic, expressive and surprisingly easy to learn. I was hopeless at speaking until one day I decided-a to-a ham uppada de style-a. It was astonishing from that moment how easy it was to get the pronunciation and the genders and the verb conjugations right. Never looked back.Offensive to Italians, You better than most should know this. Something done similar about any ethnic language would of had some on here up in arms.God help us. Does EVERY exchange have to end up like this.It is not in any way whatsoever offensive. There is a reason why how their language spoken by them sounds different to their language spoken with an English lilt, exactly as NNK reflected on. Italian DOES have a vowel at the end of pretty much every word, and that gives the spoken language a certain rhythm. It's precisely why an Italian who is not very experienced at speaking English tends to add a vowel-a sound-a at the end of every word. Because it is unnatural for them to end words with a hard consonant. There's nothing offensive about noting that. It is a fact.Equally, it is difficult for us native English speakers to get used to a language that doesn't have words ending in hard consonants. There's a tendency for us to put the emphasis in the wrong place. In particular, they almost never put the emphasis on the final vowel, and when we do, that sounds just like a foreigner speaking Italian badly. When I started consciously trying to mimic the way Italians pronounce the final vowel, everything else suddenly became easy. Like I automatically knew where the emphasis should go.BST, the infant/junior school i went to was adjacent to the local C of E school across the road, consequently i had to walk to school most days and have to fight every other day the local C of E kids because they were mimicking and harassing me with those definitions using the same words, now that was to me and kids like me deeply offensive regardless what you think. Language appropriation like that in this day and age seems to be taken very seriously and its understandable when people are offended.I am aware you were using this in a different context but nevertheless it still makes me think of the crap that you had to put up with because your background happens to be slightly different to the majority. I thought you may have understood this a bit better than others because of your Mrs background and also your own, but maybe not eh.
Quote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.[/quoteI speak German with a Niedersasche accent, so pass for a German when in DeutchelandI worked in Bavaria most of the time I was in Germany so the bit of German I picked up was with a Bavarian accent. When I went up to visit friends in the north they all burst out laughing as there it's judged the equivalent of a West Country yokel.Similar when I learnt Dutch from living in Amsterdam and had a Amsterdam. Apparently that's like being a cockney.Weird how this thread has taken a turn from this mind.
Quote from: Sprotyrover on March 14, 2024, 04:11:19 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 14, 2024, 01:29:34 pmCan anyone on here speak another language? I wish I could.We’re lucky English is so universal though.[/quoteI speak German with a Niedersasche accent, so pass for a German when in DeutchelandI worked in Bavaria most of the time I was in Germany so the bit of German I picked up was with a Bavarian accent. When I went up to visit friends in the north they all burst out laughing as there it's judged the equivalent of a West Country yokel.Similar when I learnt Dutch from living in Amsterdam and had a Amsterdam. Apparently that's like being a cockney.Weird how this thread has taken a turn from this mind.Yes when I visited the Harz Mountains they thought I was a Toff and even referred to it as.’the Queens German.Back in the 70’s we could get East German Telly and their tv presenters had a very different accent to my local area accent!