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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 13:47:56 GMT 1
In respect to that of my fellow English speakers in the  USA, I always accept from students either American spelling or vocabulary choice for example if they write " I like going to the movie theater " instead of " I like going to the cinema " then i'm okay with that. It is harder for students to adapt to British English because all they hear is "Queen's English" but in respect to one of my students, we had to give a mark out of 50 for their current mid-term scores and she actually got 49/50  =  Colors = Colours Characterization = Characterisation Mom = Mum Garbage = Rubbish (Thanks to Simon Cowell  ) Apartment = Flat Police = Copper Thousand = Grand Washington = Quid Taxi = Cab and the epic (Correct me if I'm wrong here)... YouTube (t) = YouTube (ch) But I'm more adept to American English. Lol, I'd say  Australian Englsih would be the hardest to learn Probably but I can still remember these words that you have taught us: barbie, bloke, Oz, mate..... Okay, I can't remember the others.  American English uses Grand American English is like British English in 1600's |
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Post by Liev on Aug 1, 2013 15:12:01 GMT 1
^ Really? My bad!  |
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Post by Vaios on Aug 2, 2013 0:33:36 GMT 1
I prefer  British English, and to a response to Robbie: yes, English are easy.  |
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Post by Logan on Aug 2, 2013 10:31:38 GMT 1
Yeah British English looks better.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2013 15:02:57 GMT 1
I prefer British English, and to a response to Robbie: yes, English are easy. English is easy lol |
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Post by Tom on Aug 2, 2013 15:30:34 GMT 1
I think my English is understandable. I like my native language much more, but that's because I can speak that fluently and English is much more difficult for me. I began to speak logical English in around November 2012 I think... x D |
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Post by Vaios on Aug 2, 2013 16:09:10 GMT 1
I prefer British English, and to a response to Robbie: yes, English are easy. English is easy lol Sorry, but I was confused with Greek. In Greek we say: Αγγλικά είναι εύκολα. => English are easy. But, the right is: English is easy. |
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Post by Rick on Aug 2, 2013 16:14:04 GMT 1
I learnt more english here than at school. lol
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Post by Vaios on Aug 2, 2013 16:22:40 GMT 1
I learnt more english here than at school. lol English I was learning in Greek school was shit. Now, I'm practising English here. |
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Post by Eke on Aug 2, 2013 19:55:10 GMT 1
English is too easy.  Well, um, not even sure how I learned it. I watched BBC kids programme when I was like 5-6, and I watched stuff like Cartoon Network too. Guess it kinda stuck onto me. Well, I mistype a few words, and sometimes my grammar messes up. But I don't have a problem speaking nor typing proper English. I don't put English words into Estonian when speaking or thinking about English, so that probably makes me a near-mother tongue speaker. To answer the question of American vs. British English, British is DEFINEATELY harder, and in the UK there's like 1,000,000 different accents, good luck trying to learn them all. The American English is...plain. And most stuff you hear is American, e.g. Movies, TV shows, YouTube commentaries. Though, when I speak, it's rather a mixture of American and British. But I'm pretty sure that if I tried doing a British accent to someone British, they'd laugh at me.  |
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