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Dan_ad_nauseam · Joined:Sat 18 Apr 2009 5:25 am Posts:198

ErzsebetGilbert wrote:

You claim your English is bad, but reading your post, I think it's beautiful. You definitely list specific difficulties with learning it, but English really is an insane language - I think so, and it's my native tongue! I just wanted to say that whatever troubles you're experiencing I can wholly tell you're doing a fantastic job!

A lot of languages have insane features. The Dyirbal gender system looks crazy, but Lakin proposed a relatively reasonable framework.

Neqitan · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 9:59 pm Posts:397 Location: Canada

dtp883 wrote:

-I put off school work in general and it all ends up being do on the same day.

=O Why not "it all ends up being done on the same day".

Quote:

-The position of subject pronouns and why they come after the verb.

Dislocation for contrast.

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

¿Cómo se dice "spelling mistake" en español?

Neqitan · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 9:59 pm Posts:397 Location: Canada

Error de ortografía.

Some people prefer to say "horror" de ortografía though.
Eso sí, algunas personas prefieren decir "horror" de ortografía.

dtp883 · **Posted:** Sun 06 Dec 2009 3:47 am

Neqitan wrote:

dtp883 wrote:

-I put off school work in general and it all ends up being do on the same day.

=O Why not "it all ends up being done on the same day".

Excuse my mistake. I meant to write ...it all ends up being due on the same day.

Kristie · Joined:Thu 30 Apr 2009 5:46 pm Posts:21

Ok, here goes...
I am too quick to jump into a conversation in a language I know too little about. For instance,
I was tutoring a Russian man with English and I thought I would try to speak a little in Russian. So, I THOUGHT I said "I don't speak Russian very well'. In REALITY I said "You don't speak Russian very well. I wondered why the man was giving me a very quizzical look, and then I thought a moment and then we both started laughing

It was a very good cultural experience, even though my ego suffered a little in the translation

Tikolm · **Posted:** Thu 18 Oct 2012 2:10 am

Not that this thread is in use or anything, but I thought I'd post at it.

I'm bad at jumping into conversations in general, but to be precise, I'm mostly the exact opposite of Kristie above -- too slow to talk myself into trying to speak a language I don't know that well. It's a side effect of being shy, I guess.
I don't feel like trying to give an example, because these days whenever I try to give an example of anything it ends up having something to do with Welsh. I'm kind of tired of that.

Elijah · **Posted:** Fri 19 Oct 2012 3:56 pm

Speaking of INSANE languages, Archi.