On the other hand it gives me a lift when they respond in the local lingo. .... Even if I don't understand what they said
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The biggest disappointment is when you have been learning a language all year and when you're trying the utmost to use it the recipient says "Speak English"
On the other hand it gives me a lift when they respond in the local lingo. .... Even if I don't understand what they said
On the other hand it gives me a lift when they respond in the local lingo. .... Even if I don't understand what they said
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There's a new Paris full of French chauvinists, sexual-predators, bitches, arrogant waiting staff and wotnot too.Hipper wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 4:42 pmIt might have been the wrong Paris I went to. That could explain alot:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071282/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_83
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A lot of talk about using duolingo, phone apps, books, audio books, etc.
No-one ever thought of actually doing a real course? With a teacher? 90 or 120 hour courses to get started. Now is the perfect time to do courses online with a teacher from the native country via zoom or other platforms.
The best way to learn a language is to concentrate even amounts of time on each of the 4 abilities (speaking, listening, reading, writing). Also get in a group with like-minded people at the same level and get some rapport together where you feel comfortable practising with each other and with the teacher. Don't run before you can walk and think about how kids learn their native language.
Learning a language is one of the most difficult things to do in my opinion especially when learning from abroad. Find a good teacher who knows what they are doing and who can create lessons / courses giving you the chance to use all 4 abilities, and use these apps and other novelties that don't help that much but are decent enough for revising things you've done in a course. It will cost a lot more over time but if you really wanna learn then you'll need patience, dedication, money and a lot of balls when you feel like a right plonker and didn't get what was said.
No-one ever thought of actually doing a real course? With a teacher? 90 or 120 hour courses to get started. Now is the perfect time to do courses online with a teacher from the native country via zoom or other platforms.
The best way to learn a language is to concentrate even amounts of time on each of the 4 abilities (speaking, listening, reading, writing). Also get in a group with like-minded people at the same level and get some rapport together where you feel comfortable practising with each other and with the teacher. Don't run before you can walk and think about how kids learn their native language.
Learning a language is one of the most difficult things to do in my opinion especially when learning from abroad. Find a good teacher who knows what they are doing and who can create lessons / courses giving you the chance to use all 4 abilities, and use these apps and other novelties that don't help that much but are decent enough for revising things you've done in a course. It will cost a lot more over time but if you really wanna learn then you'll need patience, dedication, money and a lot of balls when you feel like a right plonker and didn't get what was said.
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I hope I got it right. The last time I tried speaking German in front of people was at the player of the year evening in 2016 when I welcomed Rouwen Hennings. If you recall, I asked you if you would write it for me.
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Understanding East Lancs in the 60's was big problem for a Yorkie!
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You were perfectly correct with the gender of Idee (feminine)Tony, including the adjectival ending !! I think your speech went down well with Rouwen.
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Knew an English teacher from Chorley who was going to Germany to teach English. I often wondered how his pupils would get on with booook and looook etc..dougcollins wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:00 pmUnderstanding East Lancs in the 60's was big problem for a Yorkie!
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French and Latin A-levels at school and a place at Oxford to read law based on French entrance exam did not prepare me for working in Paris for six months. However, living with a family who didn’t speak English and working in a French company enabled me to be pretty fluent after 4 or 5 months.
My retirement project (apart from having a TM season ticket) was to learn Spanish. I studied initially at the Instituto Cervantes which was good for a grammar nerd but the teaching materials were regimented and dull. Now in an Advanced Conversation class at Battersea Spanish which is run by Latin Americans and focuses on Spanish and Latin American culture and history. I watch a lot of Netflix series such as La Casa del Papel (Money Heist) and Narcos usually with subtitles in Spanish. However my ear for Spanish is relatively poor, something that can only improve by living in the country.
Still it keeps the remaining brain cell working.
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My retirement project (apart from having a TM season ticket) was to learn Spanish. I studied initially at the Instituto Cervantes which was good for a grammar nerd but the teaching materials were regimented and dull. Now in an Advanced Conversation class at Battersea Spanish which is run by Latin Americans and focuses on Spanish and Latin American culture and history. I watch a lot of Netflix series such as La Casa del Papel (Money Heist) and Narcos usually with subtitles in Spanish. However my ear for Spanish is relatively poor, something that can only improve by living in the country.
Still it keeps the remaining brain cell working.
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I completed an Inlingua TEFL course in Edinburgh in 1975 on which people of various nationalities had paid to learn English whilst visiting Edinburgh. They were used as our guinea pigs for the teaching of EFL. I guess some may have returned home with a Lancashire dialect !!