LA LENGUA

[chatte calico 10]

se me ocurrió una linda idea (cosa usual en mi) de que podríamos tener un thread donde hablemos sólo en inglés.
Es probable que a muchos les pase que saben algo de inglés, pero nunca tienen opción de practicar... a mi al menos me pasa.
(acá viene la parte donde me pego la quebrada) Y no es justo que mis 925 pts del Toeic se vayan desgastando por el no uso del idioma...


Qué les parece la iniciativa??


so... let's get started!

The first thing to do in this thread should be to tell the way you learnt english, for me it was in high school, like most people i started translating songs by my favourite bands, until then i thought i knew fairly enough english, but i was wrong, by 2001 i started to visit a chatroom from england, it was blur's chat, to be honest i couldnt understand anything that these ppl were talking, plus the usage of slang was wide... i really felt dissapointed! but i didnt give up! i kept coming night after night to the chat with a dictionary by my side, and suddenly after 3 months i realized i was understanding mostly all of the conversations, and i was able to explain myself quite well!

later in uni i took a diploma, it was 3 semesters of very intensive english with an awesome teacher! that lend me to gain a lot of new vocabulary...

So thats how i learnt the little english i know, what's your story? tell us

Please lets feel free to correct each others so we can learn more =)

[Pipín 175]

Puta oh, yo creía que era una broma pa' Don Paci!

[Juanga 156]

Y yo que pensaba que saldria una tonta haciendo quizas que coshina

[macana 1]

Ok.
I`ll try.
My english is not very good.
I studied a couple months in Rancagua, and the reason was i had a lot of time!!!!
After that I started working on a international company and to speak english is a must. So I tried studying after work, but the most important progress was try to speak with natives.
Anyway....now I liked to learn more, because I feel my "level" is not what I need.

Cheers!!!

PD: tambien se hablar en shileno, pero eso es pa despues ja ja ja ja ja ja

[lag 496]

Dear Chatte,

My most sincere congratulations on your effor to understand and speak english.
As you know slang is common in chats but if you have the chance to go and speak with UK natives , it will drive you nuts . Is like going to Spain , everyone looks to speak a different languaje,

Anyway , wish you the best with this idea.

[victorg 6]

Good idea!!!

In my case, i studied when i was in the Catholique University of Valparaiso, in an institute, a long time ago obviously....

Right now, i study english at work (is for free to me..... ), with native and chilean people, it's not bad at all.....

[pacifyer 100.000]

My two cents:
[img]http://www.perufail.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/caballeros-knights-bano-hombres-servicios-higienicos.jpg[/img]

[chatte calico 10]

[quote name='pacifyer' date='17 March 2011 - 09:21 AM' timestamp='1300364502' post='50571']
My two cents:
[img]http://www.perufail.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/caballeros-knights-bano-hombres-servicios-higienicos.jpg[/img]
[/quote]
hahahahaha! priceless!

i hope they have parking for the horses xD

[lag 496]

[quote name='chatte calico' date='17 March 2011 - 07:30 AM' timestamp='1300365006' post='50575']
[quote name='pacifyer' date='17 March 2011 - 09:21 AM' timestamp='1300364502' post='50571']
My two cents:
[img]http://www.perufail.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/caballeros-knights-bano-hombres-servicios-higienicos.jpg[/img]
[/quote]
hahahahaha! priceless!

i hope they have parking for the horses xD
[/quote]

Of course the pawns has to pee on the backyard. .

[RoConde 91]

Excellent thread! :D

I remember I've learned English at school, and I take a course, on saturday evenings.... I was good on English, but I didn't have the chance for practicing, except for reading english documents, papers and websites. But I've learned english again every time I've studied something. The last time I can't take the English test, but I choosed to learn with my classmates. I usually help them in that matter and I'm don't afraid for reading english books.

[fabian ramirez 690]

Perdon yo crei que eran estas lenguas..... sorry i don´t speaking english

[img]http://members.fortunecity.com/bombones39/especial/lengua/leng0012.jpg[/img]

[img]http://members.fortunecity.com/bombones39/especial/lengua/titulo2.jpg[/img]

[Voh Poh 134]

Good job Calico Cat! Now that we're communicating in English your name shall be anglicized (Or anglicised if you're British).

A chatroom would certainly be a crash course in slang, especially one about a pop band with a younger (At least in spirit) audience like the one you joined, and a British one to boot. Think of an English speaking person trying to understand a Chilean chatroom, or this forum for that matter! However you seem to have soldiered your way through and picked up the language quite well (Hey, a 925 TOEIC! I got 980 hehe, shame on me. Not that it's helped me get a job or anything but it's always good to be reminded you can do something right).

As for English slang, it's a humbling experience for any non-UK person who might think he has a firm grasp on the language. Once you've mastered English slang you should try joining a Scottish chatroom I've never been in one but last week I saw a Scottish film that made Trainspotting sound like RP. Fortunately there was as much physical as verbal violence so the words weren't too important, they just set the tone. It's called NEDS and I recommend you give it a try without subtitles, it could of been spoken in Sanskrit an I would've understood more.

Well, that's it for me now. Congratulations on the initiative CC.

[YOP 68]

my nick is yop , my name is pablo and my favorite color es green
thanks

[chatte calico 10]

dear lord! voh poh, that sounds like a nightmare, i don't think im ready for that scottish thing, i'm still trying to fully understand spoken english, i write and read much better than i listen, but i'm trying to watch my series without the subtitles now, before just out of laziness i would use the subtitles to make sure i was getting each detail... But just when you're forced to understand is that you get the real improvement


by the way, your writting skills are impresive


pd: what's RP?

[Voh Poh 134]

RP = Received Pronounciation

From Wikipedia:

"Received Pronunciation (RP), also called the Queen's (or King's) English,[1] Oxford English,[2] or BBC English, is the accent of Standard English in England, and to a lesser extent in the other countries of the British Isles,[citation needed] with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms.[3] Although there is nothing intrinsic about RP that marks it as superior to any other variety, sociolinguistic factors have given Received Pronunciation particular prestige, especially in the early to mid 20th century.[4] However, since the 1960s, a greater permissiveness towards allowing regional English varieties has taken hold in education[5] and the media in the United Kingdom; in some contexts Received Pronunciation is now perceived negatively.[citation needed]"

[lag 496]

it´s easy to talk like scottishmen , just put a cork under your tongue and practice with a tape recorder ...

Chatte, yep , Voh Poh manages written , spoken and vocabulary in an impeccable way. But that is easy to understand , in Temuco , as you know , the Irish colony is huge

Editado Marzo 17, 2011 por lag

[lag 496]

ayo goodbye???? la cagó-.

[Voh Poh 134]

[quote name='lag' date='17 March 2011 - 10:01 AM' timestamp='1300370505' post='50650']
it´s easy to talk like scottishmen , just put a cork under your tongue and practice with a tape recorder ...

Chatte, yep , Voh Poh manages written , spoken and vocabulary in an impeccable way. But that is easy to understand , in Temuco , as you know , the Irish colony is huge
[/quote]

It's a little known fact that Temuco was known as New Dublin for some time, before returning to its original name You should hear me speaking Gaelic, although you probably have after a few piscolas

[victorg 6]

[quote name='Voh Poh' date='17 March 2011 - 11:33 AM' timestamp='1300372419' post='50675']
[quote name='lag' date='17 March 2011 - 10:01 AM' timestamp='1300370505' post='50650']
it´s easy to talk like scottishmen , just put a cork under your tongue and practice with a tape recorder ...

Chatte, yep , Voh Poh manages written , spoken and vocabulary in an impeccable way. But that is easy to understand , in Temuco , as you know , the Irish colony is huge
[/quote]

It's a little known fact that Temuco was known as New Dublin for some time, before returning to its original name You should hear me speaking Gaelic, although you probably have after a few piscolas
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It's like to hear Funkyto speak in serbian languaje.....

[lag 496]

[quote name='Voh Poh' date='17 March 2011 - 09:33 AM' timestamp='1300372419' post='50675']
[quote name='lag' date='17 March 2011 - 10:01 AM' timestamp='1300370505' post='50650']
it´s easy to talk like scottishmen , just put a cork under your tongue and practice with a tape recorder ...

Chatte, yep , Voh Poh manages written , spoken and vocabulary in an impeccable way. But that is easy to understand , in Temuco , as you know , the Irish colony is huge
[/quote]

It's a little known fact that Temuco was known as New Dublin for some time, before returning to its original name You should hear me speaking Gaelic, although you probably have after a few piscolas
[/quote]

Yes I did .
What surpises me big time , is your Pascuense dominion. Guess it has to be with a situation with two big natives in the island. Please explain it further , people want to know ....