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Do you foreign people have english class in college?

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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#81 - 2015-08-05 19:19:29 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
You english people have been raided so many times in history. I assume french, germanic and latin amalgamation must suffice for now, until you amalgamate hindi and slavic too.



you obviously dont know your history then ! we haven't been "raided" in over a THOUSAND YEARS Roll
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
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#82 - 2015-08-06 08:44:41 UTC
jason hill wrote:
Nana Skalski wrote:
You english people have been raided so many times in history. I assume french, germanic and latin amalgamation must suffice for now, until you amalgamate hindi and slavic too.



you obviously dont know your history then ! we haven't been "raided" in over a THOUSAND YEARS Roll


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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#83 - 2015-08-06 17:40:16 UTC
and we know who to blame for this don't we ... bloody cheese eating surrender monkey`s Evil
Jill Xelitras
Xeltec services
#84 - 2015-08-08 17:21:26 UTC
Mike Whiite wrote:
okay I'll bite.

In the Netherlands, people are taught, depending on their education level, 3 to 6 foreign languages before attending university. Welcome in the country of merchants

English being the first, starting as early as the age of 10, though the "real Teachers" are TV and Cinema as most programs and movies are subtitled instead of using voice over and then there is the internet of course.


Thanks to you Dutchies, we from the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg also get american / english movies in the original version with subtitles. I also agree that this is very helpful in learning english.

We too have a minimum of 3 foreign languages (German, French and English).
Welcome to the country of international banking and tax ev...advice. (Hey, at least WE did not manipulate the LIBOR)

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Alice Stenmark
Global Trust Cooperative
#85 - 2015-08-09 03:50:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Alice Stenmark
Carrie-Anne Moss wrote:
Im in English 102 in summer college class.

Do you people in france have like French102 where you read French books and write Position Papers and Critical Analysises?

It's not called English 102 right?


I only ask here in GD cuz i dont associate with foreign people much except in eve and know that a lot of people in here in General Discussion are from other countries.


Thanks


Yes. I took 4 English courses in college, which is required for everybody here. Also, most of the courses here are taught in English.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#86 - 2015-08-12 18:04:33 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
English is a messy language, compared to other languages. I learned that trying to teach it as an EFL teacher. It has a lot of odd grammatical, spelling and pronunciation exceptions that you just have to memorize.

Having a Germanic base, but also a giant load of Latin and medieval French words in it doesn't help with the disorder. So you have the noun house (Germanic), but the corresponding adjective is domestic (Latin). You have the noun woman(Germanic), but the adjectives female and feminine (French). Then again, there's the adjective womanly (Germanic), which doesn't have the same meaning as feminine. According to linguists, the big choice of similar-meaning words from different languages makes English one of the most expressive languages in the world. But the mashup also kind of makes the grammar and spelling a mess.


A study, published in 1973, offered this breakdown of sources of the words in English:
Latin, 28.34 percent;
French, 28.3 percent;
Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch, 25 percent;
Greek 5.32 percent;
no etymology given, 4.03 percent;
derived from proper names, 3.28 percent;
all other languages, less than 1 percent.



As an EFL teacher myself, I have found that these sorts of inconsistencies and bizarre factoids resolve themselves if you don't delve into them too deeply. As an interesting discussion point, they are certainly there to be talked about: however, if you subscribe to the theory of 'chunking' and lexical categorisation, English suddenly becomes a lot more accessible.

For example, unlike in the wonderful textbooks that we use where each unit has a particular target language point to be learnt and practised, it is quite clear that the real world doesn't work like that. When did you ever hear a conversation almost exclusively conducted using the past continuous, for instance? Lol If you approach learning (and teaching) English as more of a categorical sport - functional chunks of language, in other words - it's a lot more straightforward and learners can usually make the connections between topics themselves.

I should also let it be known that I additionally subscribe to the Dogme model of teaching, so take what I say with a ton of salt LolLolLol

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Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#87 - 2015-08-12 18:21:04 UTC
Alice Stenmark wrote:


Yes. I took 4 English courses in college, which is required for everybody here. Also, most of the courses here are taught in English.

UK doesn't, like, count...yo







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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#88 - 2015-08-12 19:02:34 UTC
Vortexo VonBrenner wrote:
Alice Stenmark wrote:


Yes. I took 4 English courses in college, which is required for everybody here. Also, most of the courses here are taught in English.

UK doesn't, like, count...yo









According to what I have learned from Tippia in this thread, this is a clear pointer that Alice Stenmark is a Scandinavian.

Dang, I actually learned something from the EVE forums...that's really weird...

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#89 - 2015-08-12 19:48:14 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:

Dang, I actually learned something from the EVE forums...

WHAAAT!!? UNACCEPTABLE!!
Choke yourself.











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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#90 - 2015-08-12 20:45:37 UTC
Quote:
Do you foreign people have english class in college?
To most of the world, it's actually you that's the foriegn person.

Just sayin'.

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#91 - 2015-08-14 01:33:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Jenshae Chiroptera
jason hill wrote:
and we know who to blame for this don't we ... bloody cheese eating surrender monkey`s Evil
The surrender monkey that trampled the world until the World Wars?
The surrender monkeys who had a resistance, a guerrilla war even when they lost?
Those surrender monkeys?

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