WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:11 pm

wow...Alboin, that was very stupid, but funny for how stupid...

I never would have guessed you lived in USA...with all your talk of tea and your form of talking(usually inverted sentence structure) plus I could have swore I saw you type "colour" once..

AJ · Post by AJ » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:56 am

Location: <-- Tiverton, Devon, UK
Languages: I'm afraid that I only speak English fluently (the British seem to have a reputation for not bothering to learn any other languages - just go to a Spanish holiday resort and speak loader and louder until someone understands what you are on about). I have learned a little French and German before, but haven't been outside England for years.

Adam

urxae · Post by **urxae** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:02 am

Of the 12 people that have posted as I start typing this (if I counted correctly), 3 speak Dutch and one is learning? Wow

. What's up with that?

Location: The Netherlands
Languages: Dutch, English, and bad German. (I sometimes have the feeling my English is better than my Dutch even though the latter is my native tongue, but that may depend on the subject of the conversation. Though I think my English pronunciation probably sucks

)

os64dev: If you live in Best why do you know Frisian? Is that where you or your family come from or something?

os64dev · Post by **os64dev** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:08 am

@urxae
Yep i was born and raised in Friesland but moved to Brabant 10 years ago. Though my parents didn't speak Frisian my wife parents did so i learned it in a few months.

AJ · Post by AJ » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:30 am

urxae wrote: (I sometimes have the feeling my English is better than my Dutch even though the latter is my native tongue, but that may depend on the subject of the conversation. Though I think my English pronunciation probably sucks )

A lot of non-native English speakers seem better at written English than the English (or Americans, or Australians or...). I guess if its not your native language you are forced to think about the structure of what you are saying a bit - of course this is not universal!

Cheers
Adam

Jeko · Post by **Jeko** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:09 am

I'm Italian. I come from Naples.
Maybe I'm the only Italian in this forum!

Viva l'Italia! Forza Napoli!

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:36 am

Denmark, Danish, Uhmm...

frank · Post by **frank** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:02 am

AJ wrote:
urxae wrote: (I sometimes have the feeling my English is better than my Dutch even though the latter is my native tongue, but that may depend on the subject of the conversation. Though I think my English pronunciation probably sucks )
A lot of non-native English speakers seem better at written English than the English (or Americans, or Australians or...). I guess if its not your native language you are forced to think about the structure of what you are saying a bit - of course this is not universal!

Cheers
Adam

They don't teach us English in school very well. We get 1 whole year of grammar and thats it. Most of the literature we read in high school is foreign. In my state they give us a writing test to test our abilities to write essays and at my school only 40% of the people taking the test passed. And have you ever listened to rap. No wonder non of us Americans can talk or write.

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:36 am

frank wrote:
AJ wrote:
urxae wrote: (I sometimes have the feeling my English is better than my Dutch even though the latter is my native tongue, but that may depend on the subject of the conversation. Though I think my English pronunciation probably sucks )
A lot of non-native English speakers seem better at written English than the English (or Americans, or Australians or...). I guess if its not your native language you are forced to think about the structure of what you are saying a bit - of course this is not universal!

Cheers
Adam
They don't teach us English in school very well. We get 1 whole year of grammar and thats it. Most of the literature we read in high school is foreign. In my state they give us a writing test to test our abilities to write essays and at my school only 40% of the people taking the test passed. And have you ever listened to rap. No wonder non of us Americans can talk or write.

I know. I'm disgusted at how some people speak. It's just poor in every meaning of the word. On one occasion I listened to a group of people, and counted how many times they used the word f**k. I found that they used the word 3-5 times every 5 minutes. (That's not even taking into consideration every other profanity they used.) It's as if they have a vocabulary of 25 words.

Kevin McGuire · Post by **Kevin McGuire** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:20 am

Location: Elmore, Alabama, United States
Language: English, a little Spanish.

I grew up here, the road is named after my Uncle. Moved out in a house down the road (same road at end) for about two years.
Google Maps

Then I moved here for about a half year.
Google Maps

Google Maps
I am the trailer right in the middle. I think it was a recent photo by a overhead plane this year.

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:40 am

I know. I'm disgusted at how some people speak.

Sorry, when I try to speak in English, I have some of the Scottish/German accent. You know, ... English pronouncation is too "soft"

MÃ´Å¾em slobodne prehlÃ¡siÅ¥, Å¾e som tu len jedinÃ½ SlovÃ¡k !

(I can freely say, that I'm only one Slovakian here on this forum! )

inflater

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:44 am

inflater wrote:
I know. I'm disgusted at how some people speak.
Sorry, when I try to speak in English, I have some of the Scottish/German accent. You know, ... English pronouncation is too "soft"

No, no. Not how the words are pronounced, but the actual content. Moreover, the people I'm referring to are all native English speakers.

I can't really complain about someone who doesn't speak English as a first tongue.

AJ · Post by AJ » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:03 pm

Absolutely agree!

When I am able to hold an intelligible conversation on a Slovakian OS Dev forum, I'll start complaining about non-native English speaker's grammar

dc0d32 · Post by **dc0d32** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:58 pm

I'm from India.
Lang (human) : English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit

(i guess i'm the only guy from India)

right here

RedEagle · Post by **RedEagle** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:57 pm

I'm german.
Language: German, English