...how are you all speaking english?
I'm not. You're simply imagining things.
oh shit waddup
How are you not?
It's just a prank
>>59278896
With a combination of impulses into muscles located around the mouth
本真英語分かんないねん
mas eu não tô
>>59278896
I am a Greek
ignore yugo- and russhits
glooge traslate
>>59278896
Google translated
I was taught at a very young age and gradually built upon it over years of learning.
now
i
am
the
master
>>59278896
It's my first language because of colonialism :^)
>>59278896
English is the natural language of the human being. All humans can speak if they try.
All the other languages drifted away from English after the tower of Bable was destroyed by God. The purest most original form of English is spoken by the Queen of England.
I still don't know how to use some tenses properly
>Past Perfect
>Present Perfect Simple
>Present Perfect Continuous
>mfw
>>59278896
cartoon Network
Courage is best cartoon and if you don't agree you are not white
>>59279242
based romania
American cultural imperialism
We are all using proxies from non-english speaking countries
because i have no life and browse english websites 16 hrs a day
>>59279242
Courage the Cowardly Dog?
You have good taste, my friend.
>>59279242
This is the truth.
>>59279222
No one really gives a shit, bro. Grammar rules don't make sense to anyone. As long as it sounds about right, it's alright.
El tradutor del Google, ese
>>59278896
I wanted to learn the language of Nicolas Cage.
>>59278896
Are we though?
>>59279365
Gogle.exe is best traducao. Parabains.
>>59279222
I dont even know what those tenses mean
>>59278896
Tout ça n'est qu'un produit de ton imagination.
En réalité c'est la Matrice qui traduit tout.
>>59278896
baly
>>59279222
as long you get your point across who gives a shit
>>59279440
Honestly, I don't remember that shit either.
>>59278896
I stayed in school and I'm not obama.
>>59279369
I didn't know you could learn incoherent yelling as a second language.
I don't. I simply muster all my hate for Denmark and English comes out.
>>59278896
va vill du din pilltonge?
>>59279369
Vocaroo desu "OH NO! NOT THE BEES! AHHHH AHHHHHH!"
>>59279506
What do you think "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJ" and the rest of argiespeak are?
>>59279511
Why do you hate Denmark though?
>>59279615
You'd hate your country too if it were tiny and flat and made of legos.
>>59278935
>>59278896
Je ne parle pa anglais
>>59278896
m-mitä?
what is english?
french is language of france
german is language of germany
english is language of england
what is language of america ?
>>59279803
usa has no official language but it is primarily english
Children of Britain :^כ
>>59279803
>what is language of america ?
Freedom
>>59279803
>>59279830
Back in 13 colonies days a lot of early Americans spoke German, Dutch, French and Spanish. After the revolution the Anglo-American ruling class of the young Republic made English the official language.
There were Dutch cities like New York, German states like Pennsylvania and French states like Maine, as well as a lot of Spanish in the south (Georgia and the Carolinas).
>>59279222
>Ran, jumped
>Run, jump
>Running, jumping
>>59278896
They actually have a chance to practice the language and it gets taught well.
They don't have to practice their English with criminals, illegals, and maids like Americans have to with Spanish
>>59279979
>They don't have to practice their English with criminals, illegals, and maids like Americans have to with Spanish
I've never met a gringo in my life and i speak english fairly well even though my practice has been negligible
>>59280090
Well you also aren't a mexican and can speak correctly. Why do mexicans have both the worst Spanish and English accent?
have to. My brother and sister were the only ones who spoke our native language cause they're older and I was pretty much raised English speaking
>>59280130
What's life like in the outback? Why is it like the 3rd world? Will things ever get better for Aborigines?
>>59278994
Eu nao falo ingles tambem
>>59280169
i'm not abo, by native language i should've clarified it was Croat
>>59280129
It's a central american thing. Have you ever heard puelto licans talk? They're a disgrace.
By the way, i quickly googled some stuff related to mexican accent and the butthurt in the comment sections was so strong i thought i was watching canadians writing in spanish
>>59279979
Technically A, I , O and U are dipthongs not vowels
>>59280295
Opinion on Yugoslavia? Was Hitler right about Croats? Do you identify as Venetian (like that one Greek-poster)?
>>59278973
I love British humour. Dont you love British humour? I love British humour.
>>59278896
Everybody studies English since they are very young
>>59280455
Monty Python! I've got a pocket full of coconuts. OO-AR-OO-AR! Tooty-fruity point and shooty. XD I luv britis comedie!!!
>>59279634
This
>>59279958
I was taught once in high school that the US was *this* close to having German as an official language, but I never saw a source on it.
>>59279222
Guess what bro, there is no single definitive grammar system. Don't worry about it so much. If you are communicating effectively it does not matter if you have perfect grammar as decided by some arbitrary collection of somebodies.
>>59279979
I bought AN Xbox last week.
Where is your god now?
>>59280983
I graduated a A History major?
or an history major?
I use google translate
This is a beautiful wood, culture and fun mail
>>59280897
Bullshit, German was extremely prevalent prior to WW1 ( about as much as Spanish is today). However, simply the fact that the US were a British colony from the start and under the Crown's protection guaranteed that English would be most important.
Do the US even have an official language though?
>>59281074
Not the US as a whole. Some states do, at least two that I know of have English and French, and my retarded state has like 20 official languages because the lame duck governor decided to include the eskimo languages.
>>59281074
no, and there's all sorts of moral hysteria from the left every time it is suggested we name English as our official language. IIRC you could get a ballot and voter's pamphlet for the city of Seattle in at least six languages. English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Russian, plus a few others like Ukrainian and Laotian and Japanese.
There was a big push about a hundred years ago to only educate in english, which did all sorts of damage, particularly to the Cajun culture, but overall it was Radio (and later television) that really made it so everyone had to speak english.
>>59278896
Google translate
>>59280424
You're telling me this book lied to me?
>>59278896
nique ta mère fils de pute
>>59278896
It's just a bit of banter bro
>>59281022
If the 'h' is not silent there is no reason to use 'an'.
But people also argue this rule can vary depending on the accent, but desu I never put much thought into it, I just go with what sounds more natural to me.
>>59281375
I think most people say "a history major"
>>59281213
In the Czech Republic, the consonants won, and sent all their vowels to death camps.
Also that book looks like it was written with the aid of lots of drugs.
>>59281439
Yeah, the 'h' in this word doesn't sound silent to me, so I would go with 'a history' as well.
>>59280897
Someone bullshitted you quite hard
>>59281503
I think it was a metaphor for something, but I'm not sure what. I thought it was the Civil War, but then I reread it and it had a lot more of a class warfare thing going on.
Vowels master race though.
>>59278896
Foreigners have an advantage. All the best movies, video games, books, and shows are in English while France and most other countries don't have any quality literature or media.
Also the English speaking world is big so the few non-English media that are worth something get translated into English.
>>59281439
If the sound after it is a consonant its a, if its a vowel its an
>>59281577
As AN official language? Not that hard to believe. As THE official language? Yeah, that's bullshit.
>>59281627
It was never close to being an official language
I just wish Americans spoke in London accents instead of in raspy whispers
>>59281577
Yeah, I expect so. It was mentioned in the directions on some assignment as an example of the importance of voting. IIRC the exact quote was "one vote gave us English instead of German."
>>59280424
Retard
![388544-top_foto1-nkwzt[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MlksQJk.jpg "388544-top_foto1-nkwzt[1].jpg")
>>59281503
>>59287540
Škrt plch z mlh Brd pln skvrn z mrv prv hrd scvrnkl z brzd skrz trs chrp v krs vrb mls mrch srn čtvrthrst zrn.
>>59278896
What if we're all actually speaking our native languages, but we just think we're speaking the same language to each other because our minds have sychronised?
Because it has only 26 characters.
cartoon network
![0bb[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CFGOsTU.jpg "0bb[1].jpg")
>>59287693
That must be it
>>59279222
Lol wtf even are those
>>59279059
>pooland
also damn sweden, denmark and the netherlands
>>59278896
Thank God I didn't actually learn English on 4chan because otherwise I'd be royally fucked. I only started posting here when my English was already pretty decent and although I remember that when I first started coming here back in 2006 I spoke relatively little English, I still learned English the old-fashioned way (i.e. school) with the help of movies and such.
I guess most of you only started learning English because you either wanted to be able to communicate with people of other nationalities or simply wanted to be able to watch movies and series in their original English versions.
I, on the other hand, became completely enthralled with the English language as soon as I started learning it at school, which quickly made me the best in class. I genuinely viewed English as a wonderful and beautiful language to learn and not just as a simple means of communication. I didn't just want to learn English, I wanted to be able to speak it perfectly, I wanted to become a native speaker in all but name. I am obsessed with English, which is why it will come as no surprise that I'm an English major at university. I am also very interested in languages in general, so that even before I started studying English linguistics I already knew a lot about e.g. English phonology.
After studying this language for more than eight year and also getting a few Cambridge ESL certificates (including the C2 one called "Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English") I would consider myself to be perfectly proficient in English and there have been occasions where I even knew the meaning of an English word that an actual native speaker didn't know the meaning of. (Concrete example: The British girl teaching me the CPE course didn't know what "impetus" meant, while I certainly did).
When I spent a few weeks in England about three years ago, my host family complimented me on my English, saying that I spoke "better English than some English people".
Hello. We're talking about language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw
>>59287899
fuckin nerd lmao
>>59281022
"an" before words beginning with /h/ is archaic most of the time (except for words where it's silent like "hour" and "heir" or "herb" if you're American).
Sometimes in speech you can hear people say "an hospital" or "an hotel" because the /h/ doesn't always get pronounced though (or it gets pronounced very weakly).
>>59279979
This is wrong, it's any word that sounds like it starts with a vowel i.e. >>59280983 xbox which sounds like it starts with an E
>>59287976
https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country
>i'm no.1
>you're like 40th
hmmm....
>>59281022
Unless you have a really fucked up pronunciation History does not sounds like it starts with a vowel.
>>59287899
>more than eight year
Pretty sure that's supposed to be "eight years"
Meant to speak in Esperanto but accidentally chose 'English' in google translate.
>>59287899
>I only started posting here when my English was already pretty decent and although I remember that when I first started coming here back in 2006 I spoke relatively little English
Throw some commas in their for fucks sake, you trying to kill somebody?
>>59278896
Why aren't you senor?
>>59288170
Whose for fuck's sake?
![1442219127612[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eEtPUo9.jpg "1442219127612[1].jpg")
>>59288170
>>59288213
>bantered by a jap
>>59287976
Kek'd audibly.
It was a nice story though, and I can see how emphatic Singaporebro is about the language. Being bilingual certainly opens up a number of doors for an individual, and if the second (or third, etc.) language happens to be English, then that is exponentially even more so.
So which movie or series is the ultimate test? As in you should be able to watch and understand it without English subtitles.
>>59278896
Tolmácsot szeretnék kérni
english colonialism
otherwise id be speaking broken english with a heavy irish (as in irish language, not hiberno-english) accent
>>59288357
An episode of The Scheme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xan2xU-ZFic
>>59288506
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNfABzyCaUU
come here for learning tbf
>>59288506
That's not English, sounds like skirt wearing wankers.
>>59288357
Snatch, or Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4tEtuTccc
>>59288953
Doesn't count if they don't speak English, dummy.
The internet taught me everything i need to know.
Funny how all these years i wasted dwelling imageboards actually did something good for me.
The only problem is that my english is pretty much based on using colloquial terms and swearing because of that, so it's hard sometimes to speak properly.
>>59288090
>To complete the calculation of your IQ score and generate your detailed report, you need to connect your Facebook profile.
Why the fuck did I waste time on this
>>59279059
This doesn't seem right. A lot more people speak english in portugal than in france.
>>59279059
>UK
>95%
Kek
>>59278896
Yes. Hallo.
>>59278896
I learn from your mother yelling out during sex
>>59290646
#ANALREKT #360NOSCOPED
You all speak english better than most natives I know. So, pat yourself on the back, please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
/lanka
