In which Pez wastes space on your friends list!

[pez]

I was just thinking how many people around here don't actually speak English as their first language. On my flist, I have Chinese (Mainland/HK, and I don't know if Taiwanese and Singaporeans like to call themselves Chinese), Filipino, Brazilian, Portugese, French, German, Norwegian, Finns (is that the right word?), Argentinian, Vietnamese, Indonesian... and others I can't think of right now because I lost some brains through my nose this morning. XD

I know we all mostly write in English because that's the language most understands around here. My question is, how come everyone's English is so good? Is it because you live/lived overseas? You learned it in school and keep practising online? You love reading English books?

Don't mind me, I'm just curious. XD Here, watch Roy dance.

Comments

[ikusatami.livejournal.com]

wow that's really a wide variety of people you have there.. xD

I improved my english with.. yes.. the internet mainly <XD, reading fanfics in english, even attempting to translate them.. and videogames. a lot of companies don't even bother translating the games in german. but right now I play them in english even if there is a german option *lol* (helps with the faqs on gamefaqs.com XD) and I read english books :D only a few but.. Harry Potter series of course ^_^" Howl's Moving Castle.. and.. maybe you know this series.. it's by Laura Joh Rowland (or whatever she is called) and it's about Sano Ichirou, something like a detective working for the Shogun, dealing with murders that occured around the shogun.. and stuff. *babble babble*

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

So it's more reading/writing than speaking/listening? Because I remember meeting up with friends from flist who have very good written English but weren't very confident with speaking it.

I've heard of all those! Tried HP, couldn't get into it (I must be a rare case). I like to read, too, but am not doing it as much as I should. I think the last time I really got into a (series of) book is George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". :DDDD

[ikusatami.livejournal.com]

More reading and writing, yes.
I'm also not very confident with speaking... ^^" the pronounciation makes me nervous and I start to stutter..
I only talk in English in school. :\
(and when I'm in france and refuse to talk french with them. *lol*) (but my french was and is worse)

oh really xD that's really rare.. most people at least have read HP a bit. but not everyone can like it.
I have so often heard now about A song of Ice and Fire >_< maybe I should try too

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

I borrowed and read the first 3 HP books, but didn't find them particularly special...

Song of Ice and Fire is really exciting :DDDDD the plot's huge though, and it's still not finish.