...oh for gods sake don't encourage him!...Me too, Kurb! You do great Calla speak, Sai ghost.
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...oh for gods sake don't encourage him!...Me too, Kurb! You do great Calla speak, Sai ghost.
Mayhap I'll ask you to get off me lawn cully. I'll set my watch and warrant on it, so I will...oh for gods sake don't encourage him!...
Me too, Kurb! You do great Calla speak, Sai ghost.
lol, yup, generally speaking, very much like Americans when it comes to assuming that their mother tongue is everyone's mother tongue.I'm prettig good at English now, but that's because of tv and internet. At school I barely scraped a 6 (5 and lower is a fail). As for the other two languages I was taught, I pretty much forgot everything about French and currently I'm struggling with refreshening my German, which takes a lot of looking up in online dictionaries when I need to send an e-mail or while talking on the phone.
About other Europeans being good at foreign languages... Ever met a German or a Frenchman?
My son watches "the Incredible Dr. Pol" - he finds it interesting to see what a veterinarian does. I will have to check out the accents next time it is on - I am usually cooking in the kitchen, but due to our 'open concept' floor plan I can hear the TV in the living room.Apart from a day in Gibraltar I've never visited any English-speaking country, so my knowledge of British, Irish, American and Canadian accents is based solely on television shows and movies. But then it depends on how true to their accent people are. You can probably rule out a lot of movies. But still, I can hear Mary Cooper from the Big Bang Theory is from Texas, and sometimes Sheldon as well. On the other hand I don't hear it so much in the people in Fast'n'Loud, they're just "American" to me. I can pick out some Canadian accents (I discovered "The Liquidator" is Canadian because of his accent). I just listened to a Newfoundland accent on youtube but to me it sounds different from Irish (at least different from Eddie Jordan or Michael Gambon).
To me American/Canadian accents differ less than England-English differs from Scotland-English. But maybe that's just me
Even in a small country like the Netherlands there are big differences. I don't know if anyone here is familiar with the show "The Incredible Dr. Pol"? He's Dutch, but lives in Michigan. His son Charles therefore doesn't speak Dutch, but he wanted to learn it when his uncle (Dr. Pol's brother) had planned to visit them in Michigan. At one point during that episode, uncle says something in Dutch, to which Charles (who has by then a basic understanding of the language) comments "yeah... I didn't catch that". Well, me neither... That's because the Pol family is from a different part of the country than I am, and I have a hard time understanding people from that region as well (I have an uncle who lives there, 90% of the time I have no idea what he's saying, and you can only ask one to repeat what he said so many times before they get annoyed, so I just mumble something that could be yes or no at hopefully appropriate moments).
That makes me not like her one little bit. Who could be rude to our Neesy?
Like Antonio! Yes.
I love a Nordic accent - those soft "Y"s that they can't say so they sounds like "J"s. Like "Jes" instead of "Yes". OH.MY. And those long eyeteeth. :swoon:
...remember mister, I deal in lead.....Mayhap I'll ask you to get off me lawn cully. I'll set my watch and warrant on it, so I will
Hile, Gunslinger!...remember mister, I deal in lead.....
Hile, Gunslinger!
...is that like some gustatory bastardization of "spew" and "puke"?...either way, I'll just have a pizza.....Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the one ultra-bizzaro term for a submarine sandwich people in MA use. "Spukie". I mean really, WTF is a spukie?! And why would I want to eat one?!
...is that like some gustatory bastardization of "spew" and "puke"?...either way, I'll just have a pizza.....