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Postby KIG1 on Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:23 am

ive lived in the usa all my life so i just learned it from school and parents
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Postby Jackal on Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:27 am

I'm sort of surprised that people outside the US seem to write English way better than some of the gangsters that live in the US.

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Postby Doobie on Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:28 am

That's because in other countries , people are taught to write proper English , and people here refuse to write properly because it's not "cool" enough .
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Postby Jona on Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:03 am

DoobieKnicks wrote:
Jona wrote:Yo viví un tiempo en Miami pero no creo que haya importado ya que tenía 3 años cuando llegué a Chile. Estoy en un colegio que enseña inglés, por lo tanto desde chico aprendí inglés por el colegio. Y siempre leía libros en inglés. (Y)


Translation for those people who can't understand ....

"I once live in miami when I was 3 I came to Chile . I'm in a school that shows english , and as a kid I learned English in this school . I always read books in English" - Jona the god .

I guess I got it close enough :lol:


Yeah, that's pretty much it.
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Postby dada on Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:34 am

I learned english by looking through a dictionary on the flight iover to the US.
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Postby hipn on Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:41 am

Learned english whenI first came here to Canada, Mostly watching cartoons and shows that were shown in the country I came from, so the speech was kind of the same (jsut different language) so translating those shows wasn't hard.
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Postby #12 on Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:44 am

cyanide wrote:
cklitsie wrote:So do you know the sign language deaf people use? I've always had a fascination for that.


Yep, I'm fluent in ASL (American Sign Language). Thanks to that, I don't need to take French.


can you really do that for the language test in high school?????
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Postby Cable on Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:17 am

I learned from wolves who migrated to Russia just to teach me.




Besides that, I'm fluent in French too, thanks to French immersion at school. And don't tell me that Euros have better grammar than moi :P
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Postby Doobie on Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:23 am

Cable Guy wrote:I learned from wolves who migrated to Russia just to teach me.




Besides that, I'm fluent in French too, thanks to French immersion at school. And don't tell me that Euros have better grammar than moi :P


Je Mappelle Sael , et toi? Donne-moi tete , Zut!!!!


I took french freshman year of HS . I failed it with a 40/100...
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Postby Cable on Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:29 am

I can tell. Do you want me to correct French grammar as well :shake:
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Postby cyanide on Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:32 am

Jae wrote:American Sign Language... is that like American English, where certain words are randomly spelt incorrectly but if you try to tell an American that's the case they go mental and accuse you of spying for the Japanese?


More or less :lol: Naw, it's just basically sign language that's used in North America. There's different kinds of sign languages being used in other countries.

#12 wrote:can you really do that for the language test in high school?????


I didn't have to take a language exam. They just said if I have a second language, I don't need to take French.
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Postby Doobie on Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:39 am

Cyanide , I'm sorry to bring it up , but all those jokes Legend used to say about banging your mom seem 100 times more fucked up now.
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Postby Colin on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:43 am

DoobieKnicks wrote:Cyanide , I'm sorry to bring it up , but all those jokes Legend used to say about banging your mom seem 100 times more fucked up now.

LMAO

That was amazing.

Anyways, English is my native tongue. And I "speak" Spanish. By "speak" I mean I know a few choice words and learned all about the classroom objects in class. I don't think I'll ever have to use la mochilla or la regla ever again. Either way I'm good to go with 'hola', 'gracias', and 'dos cervezas por favor.'
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Postby Nick on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:44 am

I can't even speak english. I have a translater sitting next to me for every one of my posts.
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Postby J@3 on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:45 am

:lol: :lol: Doobie's turning into a funny little bastard over time. Ah... bastard, there's a word that doesn't get used enough.
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Postby Colin on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:47 am

Jae wrote::lol: :lol: Doobie's turning into a funny little bastard over time. Ah... bastard, there's a word that doesn't get used enough.


I'm sorry the group of people you are with don't use that word enough, I hear it a good ammount.
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Postby J@3 on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:52 am

Colin wrote:
Jae wrote::lol: :lol: Doobie's turning into a funny little bastard over time. Ah... bastard, there's a word that doesn't get used enough.


I'm sorry the group of people you are with don't use that word enough, I hear it a good ammount.


Cool, reason #2 to move to Canada. Another 98 or so and I'm on my way.
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Postby Doobie on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:53 am

Jae wrote:
Colin wrote:
Jae wrote::lol: :lol: Doobie's turning into a funny little bastard over time. Ah... bastard, there's a word that doesn't get used enough.


I'm sorry the group of people you are with don't use that word enough, I hear it a good ammount.


Cool, reason #2 to move to Canada. Another 98 or so and I'm on my way.


What's reason #1?
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Postby Colin on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:55 am

uh...I live there.

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Postby Jona on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:04 pm

Colin wrote:I don't think I'll ever have to use la mochilla or la regla ever again.


"La regla" is slang for PMS. :lol:
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Postby J@3 on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:07 pm

Yeah, we could make sigs together.

Actually reason #1 is that my girlfriend's desperate to move there. Though I'm hoping that's not because Colin lives there.
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Postby Matt on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:21 pm

i plan on moving to Vancouver one day.....gotta get my degree here first though....aghhh!!!! stuck in lame ass perth for another few years.
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Postby Andrew on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:22 pm

Jae wrote::lol: :lol: Doobie's turning into a funny little bastard over time. Ah... bastard, there's a word that doesn't get used enough.


You know, there's a Simpsons reference I'm itching to make. But I'll exercise restraint for once.

I'm always impressed by how fluently from non-English speaking countries speak English...or can type it anyway. It's a skill that we folks in English speaking countries don't have...or perhaps it's just ignorance/arrogance on our part.
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Postby Matthew on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:42 pm

Matt wrote:i plan on moving to Vancouver one day.....gotta get my degree here first though....aghhh!!!! stuck in lame ass perth for another few years.

"Just a few more years then DETROIT FOR ME BABY!!!"

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Postby J@3 on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:44 pm

Detroit, Vancouver... it's a thin line.
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