The foreign tongue thread.

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So, apart from me and Geir, are there any other posters who don't live in any of the Anglo-Saxon countries (= posters who don't speak English as their first tongue)? There was Tiit from Estonia, if I remember correctly... Anyone else? Do you at any time have translation problems because of the "sophisticated" (better put quotes on that one) language used in here? I know I'm sometimes stretching the limits of my English skills trying to keep up with these boards. It's a lot of fun, still.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

message boards are really good for keeping up with a language that you can have direct contact with. if i didnt look at 2step.ru all the time, my russian woulkd have died a long time a go. but the lsang does make it pretty impenetrable. i dread to think what it would be like to work out what the hell is going on here if i wasnt native speaker english.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I've learned English mostly by reading comics and watching movies. Ten years of studying English at school is secondary to that (at high school, I never did my English homework). It's true I don't always get the jokes, but the more I stay here, the easier it gets.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i mean your level of englsih is like 100000000000000% better than my grasp of russian

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

tuomas, your english is like 10000000000% better than my grasp of english!

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

(Not everybody here who lives in a non-Anglophone country isn't a native speaker of English, you know.)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

there was an Eastern European woman who used sometimes post to ILM.

I discovered yesterday that English is not the first language of one of my colleagues... she is a GAELGEOIR.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What, she speaks Gaelish? Where did she grow up?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Although many claim I sound like a native English speaker, my first language is Flemish. (I also speak crap French, German and Japanese.) I started learning English from the age of nine. Since most films on Belgian television channels are subtitled, it was easy to learn it.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you at any time have translation problems because of the "sophisticated" (better put quotes on that one) language used in here?

hm, occasionally it is kinda complicated-ish to figure out wot some foax are on about 'xaktly - but then again it sometimes may have to do with my own lazy thinkin'. depends on the subject too - rather greatly.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ik hou van alles.

― Erik, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I speak English better than I do German (my first language) or Portuguese (the language of the country where I live.) It's actually quite worrying.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What, she speaks Gaelish? Where did she grow up?

well, Irish Gaelic. Irish, as we call it. She grew up in the West of Ireland, in one of those areas where they still speak it.

in fairness, I think English might actually be her first language, but she said they would speak a lot of Irish down there.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't read english and, as you can see, i can't write it neither.

― Bruno- (Bruno-), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread title makes me think of kissing.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

dude! that eastern european person was the ukrainian, er....and i've totally forgotten her name! she was the best poster ever! (apart from gail)

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

I have decided that Malay is the world's greatest language. Here is a selection of words I have learned this week:

Ogos - August
Teksi - Taxi
Polis - Police (just like in Scotland!)
Inggeris - English

― Madchen, Monday, 20 August 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

I like a bit of foreign tongue, eh eh eh?

...i'll get me coat.

― Trayce, Monday, 20 August 2007 03:36 (eighteen years ago)

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