Hey PJ!

[sophie]

Exactly...plus when you factor in slang and idioms, it just gets all the more complicated.

 

[pjbleek]

Exactly...plus when you factor in slang and idioms, it just gets all the more complicated.

I have heard that American English is the hardest to learn, with all our tricks and bells and whistles.....

European languages are derived from Latin and they all have some root in the Latin language.... we use too many colourful metaphors....

 

[sophie]

I've heard that too.

 

[Leah Love]

Exactly...plus when you factor in slang and idioms, it just gets all the more complicated.

So is this the time when I brag that I am fluent in 4 languages and that English is actually my 4th and that all know I learned form watching TV? :unsure:

 

[sophie]

LOL! Did you seriously learn English from tv? That's awesome.

I'm fluent in three languages and learning my fourth but not from tv...LOL!

 

[pjbleek]

but television is a good learning tool.....I know that my generation was plopped down in front of the TV with Sesame Street, Mr. Rodgers,electric Company etc. they realized that we could be taught by the television and it was a good baby-sitter

 

[Leah Love]

LOL! Did you seriously learn English from tv? That's awesome.

I'm fluent in three languages and learning my fourth but not from tv...LOL!

Yep, by the time we had to start learning German and English in school I was already fluent in both - at age 9 I went and had an argument with the teacher that it was NOT how you pronounce a certain word and she just sent me outside so I could "cool down" ... never mind that I was RIGHT hehe

and once we had the homework to write out every unknown word for us out of a text - The teacher went around and checked the homework. when she come to me I presented her with a blanck notebook. She asked me why I didn't do my homework - I told her that I knew every single word int he text so I don't need to write out anything.
She got pissed at me and called me out to the backboard, and asked me EVERY SINGLE word in the text, and when I knew all of it she then asked me words that were not even in the book - I knew all of it. SCORE!!!

And I am learning my 5th language
My dream is to be fluent in 10 languages

 

[pjbleek]

what other languages, LL?

 

[Leah Love]

what other languages, LL?

Hungarian - my native, Serbian, German, English (have level D certificates of the later 2) and learning French.

Could go with Spanish, Italian, Russian.... Japanese... Chinese, Turkish... we'll see

 

[pjbleek]

Hungarian - my native, Serbian, German, English (have level D certificates of the later 2) and learning French.

Could go with Spanish, Italian, Russian.... Japanese... Chinese, Turkish... we'll see

Spanish es muy facil...

 

[Dana]

Nem Leah, hogyan maga körül, engem és az ön hálószoba... mit gondol?

 

[Dana]

He Leah, Wie um Sie, mich und Ihr Schlafzimmer. ... Sie was denken?

 

[Leah Love]

Nem leah, hogyan maga körül, engem és az ön hálószoba... mit gondol?

He Leah, Wie um Sie, mich und Ihr Schlafzimmer. ... Sie was denken?

:24::24::24: Didn't you read the thread Dana? Bablefish is BAD :24:

"No Leah, how around you, me and your bedroom... what do you think?" :24::24: :surrender

 

[skyblue]

lost in translation i reckon lilla...pj wishes no-one bad

 

[Leah Love]

lost in translation i reckon lilla...pj wishes no-one bad

I know - no harm done. I just found it funny

 

[skyblue]

I know - no harm done. I just found it funny

just sayin

 

[skyblue]

lilla

 

[Leah Love]

lilla

.yes?

 

[skyblue]

croatia 1 england 4

:surrender:surrender:surrender

 

[USF Sam]

croatia 1 england 4

:surrender:surrender:surrender

She's a Serb. What does she care?