Where did you learn english ?

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04 May 2007, 2:57 am

I had a private teacher when I was 6. Then I learnt the elementaries until grade 3 in school. After that I started visiting sites in English and when my English was at a reasonable degree, I started reading English books.

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04 May 2007, 3:41 am

We got a lot of secondary English speakers.

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04 May 2007, 4:34 am

I don't speak English. I speak Australian.

G'day mate!
What a ripper!
You little beauty.
What ya gunna do tonight?

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04 May 2007, 5:07 am

Smelena wrote:

I speak Australian.

Oz is my first language too, i.e., mate, that sheela in yor avatar is a real goer…mate. I'm unsure if there's an Aussie standard though...I speak a West-side based suburban-country dialect; which is completely different to the South-side based suburban dialect...this is all in the same city too!

Cross border communication is completely impossible...even to the NT.

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04 May 2007, 5:37 am

I speak the Queen's English with an Aussie accent. Now I want you to ask the right question....

The Inevitable Question wrote:

Which Queen?

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04 May 2007, 5:53 am

Danielismyname wrote:

Smelena wrote:

I speak Australian.

Cross border communication is completely impossible...even to the NT.

You have a great name. My 7 year old Aspie is Daniel.

We live in Queensland. Where are you?

Beyond the black stump?

See ya round like a rissole eh eh! (You might be too young for that reference. I'm 33)

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04 May 2007, 5:57 am

Ah, I've heard that before....

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04 May 2007, 6:14 am

Quatermass wrote:

Ah, I've heard that before....

I'll rip ya bloody arms off ...

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04 May 2007, 6:33 am

I English from learning good book. Englishes me you like bigtime.
More to learn it (English) with more pages.
:lol:
....sorry, errrm ... I can speak English, really.
I speak English from South (east) England .... though there's a little bit of a London accent creeping in.
I am as they say, a native speaker

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04 May 2007, 6:46 am

Smelena wrote:

We live in Queensland. Where are you?

My spoken languages on display:

I drift around the NW outskirts of Brisbane…they kicked me out. My ma named me "Daniel", I like it too (mainly because she named me); too bad the Hebrew meaning is lost on me.

Ya…mate, North-Wester of Brisie…good fo nothing coppers kickd me out; moo sprung me “Daniel”, Ya, it’s bonza mate…ya, mate…Jesus is booze mate. Ya.

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04 May 2007, 6:55 am

Smelena wrote:

Quatermass wrote:

Ah, I've heard that before....

I'll rip ya bloody arms off ...

They would be bloody if you ripped em off. I meant 'see you round like a rissole'....

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04 May 2007, 1:28 pm

home more than likley.

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04 May 2007, 3:21 pm

Although English is my native language,in times of crisis I revert to Scottish

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04 May 2007, 3:33 pm

Anubis wrote:

I spoke it from the moment I was born

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04 May 2007, 4:46 pm

Chuck Norris taught it to me.

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04 May 2007, 5:12 pm

jackhippy wrote:

Danielismyname wrote:

Supposedly, it was in primary school…though everything I know about life and language I learnt from reading Heinlein’s Starship Troopers about twelve trillion times.

Which is a good thing and a bad thing.

Unrelated but....I absolutely love that book!! !! Hated the movie though.

Same here!

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