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If you want to get better in english

Hi girls, :D
I have been to Ireland because I wanted to speak properly English. In adition, I wanted to leave my routine. I was breakfast chief, waitress and alcoholic and I got fat ! (I'm joking !! but I had a lot of headaches...).
It was a really good experience for me, the first time I left home. I met many very nice people. Irish people are so great.
Next year I want to go to south America because I want to improve my spanish. I don't want to go to Spain because I want a big change. I need to met diferents people and way of life.
 
Actually, when I decided go to Ireland, I was there 2 weeks later. I've found my first job on Internet. It was with a private organisation and I had to pay for that. But as it was my first time leaving, I needed to be reassure. And I had job and accomodation for sure (hopefully, because you don't know how is it before you see, but it was ok).

(J'espère vraiment que je fais pas trop de fautes, il nous faudrait quelqu'un pour vérifier qu'on n'écrit pas n'importe quoi tout le temps ! il y a surement des personnes qui espèrent apprendre un peu avec ce post alors si c'est pour lire n'imp, c'est peut être pas une super idée... :oops: )
What do you think about that ?
 
sarahngu a dit:
Racoon, as you're living in us, could you learn us some typical american expression ? the american you speak with your friends, for example, because, at school, we learn the "polite" english...

For people who lives or have lived in us, irland, uk, etc... why and how did you do ? (of course you have to understand what i mean before answering to my question ! :oops: )
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Hey gals ;),

As celca said, I don't think you're bilingual if you dream, write, speak, think often in English... (It happens to me many times and I don't consider myself as bilingual).

sarahngu> no problem I can teach you some American expressions (such as "hey gals" which means "hey girls") if you want to speak American English you just have to place "f***" everywhere in your sentences (just kidding ;) which means "je rigole")

Well to answer your question: I didn't have any specific reason to leave France, just wanted to discover a new country I guess.
 
The only english word I wanna say today...

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !!! :mrgreen:


Well... I'm too shy to speak with you :oops: (too shy about my english)
 
Racoon a dit:
sarahngu> no problem I can teach you some American expressions (such as "hey gals" which means "hey girls") if you want to speak American English you just have to place "f***" everywhere in your sentences (just kidding ;) which means "je rigole")
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:lol: It reminds me a movie with Jim Carrey: Me, Myself and Irene (In French the title is: Fous d'Irène). His "sons" always used "f***" in every sentence they said, it was soooo funny :lol:.

Hum, what could i say about Ireland? I was fond of it before going there, and as I wanted to learn English for one year, I went to an au pair school which placed me in a big family. I stayed there as an au pair only for 2 months.
It was easy to find a job, even if you don't speak English. So i found one as a sales reservation agent in a car rental company, and stayed in ireland 2 years instead of one. :P
 
Aussie living in France

Hey all,

I must say that I wish there was something like this which existed for Australians wanting to learn French - would have helped me a lot before I arrived I can assure you!!

I've been living in France for 2 years now and studying the BTS CGO, with the exams rapidly (much too rapidly in my opinion) closing in on me.

You talk about watching TV and DVDs in English to try and improve - it does help a lot, a helluva lot but there is nothing at all that compares to just speaking the language. Going to the cinemas is a neat idea too, although like I said I have been in France for 2 years and consider my self pretty much fluent in French (despite the mistakes in le/la and all that!) and I still have trouble understanding some movies! Could be the movies that I have seen though - RRRRrrrr and another one with Michael Youn! Might not have been the best movies to try and understand.

Anyhow, I think I have written enough for tonight. I just want to encourage you all to keep practising by speaking and writing. Practice makes perfect as they say.

Have a great night.

There are too many posts on this thread for me to correct (sorry but I just don't have the time) however I am more than happy to answer any questions and will help out when I can.

Cheers.
 
Hi mellboy,

i don't think that RRRrrr and "les 11 commandements" (i believe that's the movie with Mickael Youn you were talking about) was the best french movies to see ! :)
The problem is that the french spoken have changed a lot, so what you could have learnt at school about french, i think it is the "polite" french. I think that you say "C'est drôle" instead of "Ca déchire" like we say, for example.

I hope you understand what i wrote :oops:
 
sarahngu a dit:
There's nobody here...
however, it's a good idea of topic...
the spanish topic is empty too :( :(
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D'un autre coté y'a plein de t'chat ailleurs ou tu peux corespondre en anglais....ce qui n'est pas le but de premier de ce forum sur les langues.....
 
saranghu - yes I understood what you meant and I see what you mean too!

I think it may have been 11 commandements or some silly movie like that... however I am digressing off of the topic aren't I. :)

The language that you learn at school and the language spoken is completely different - for example when I was learning French at high school we were taught to use ne...guère. When I used it on arriving here in France people just looked at me crazily :shock: Like I said there is nothing compared to being in the country (or for English one of the many countries) where that language is spoken.

Good luck to you all with your English, I will need a lot of good luck for my French that's for sure!
 
Engllish is very important now for our diplomas... so I don't think it's a bad idea, on the contrary, it helps students to have fun in studying. On english chats you don't have time to understand and answer people because they talk a very fast and colloquial language. :cry:
 
tony38 a dit:
sarahngu a dit:
There's nobody here...
however, it's a good idea of topic...
the spanish topic is empty too :( :(
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D'un autre coté y'a plein de t'chat ailleurs ou tu peux corespondre en anglais....ce qui n'est pas le but de premier de ce forum sur les langues.....
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Peut être tony mais je trouve que c'est une bonne idée de pouvoir se présenter comme cela, ils seront ammené à le faire le jour de l'épreuve, et c'est pas en écrivant en français qu'ils éméliorerons leur vocabulaire, aux moins ici ils se feront corrigés, et ils pourront s'améliorer en tenant compte des remarques.
 
hi, it's great to see how supportive you all can be, i wouldn't have taught of anything better myself. I think it's a great idea to be able to chat in english. I'm bilingual but my english is getting rusty c'os i rarely speak it but it's definitely better than my french. I think french is one of the hardest languages to learn, c'os there's so many rules, the female & the male genders, you know the "la, le une, un.......", and then there's the "vous, tu", let's not even get to the conjugation part!!!. Bravo! I think you're all doing good, just very slight mistakes, very okay for an oral if your speeches amounts to the way you write. thumbs up! :)
 
sarahngu a dit:
emiliiiiie a dit:
Actually, when I decided go to Ireland, I was there 2 weeks later.
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:shock:

two weeks :!: that's short, isn't it ? weren't you afraid ?
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actually you're doing well, it's just that you say: "decided to go to ireland" ant not the other way round, and then you forgot the "d" in your reassured.
 
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