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.

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[grimmjow-jagger.livejournal.com]

As for me, I just lived in the states for quite some time and then kept studying English as a second language back here in Russia, first at school and then at a linguistic university.
But if it weren't for online rambling and reading books/watching movies in English I'd definately forget the language, since don't think our education system is efficient enough...

And I still make a hella lot of typos.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

...........I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU'RE RUSSIAN.

I have this impression that most Russians don't know much English... probably because they always comment in Russian in LJ news posts, and have their own fandom pages. I've also been asked if they could translate my fics into Russian, which led me to believe not many of them could read English........>_>"""""

[grimmjow-jagger.livejournal.com]

:D

Well, to be honest, I can't really say that there are a lot of people here with good English. Which is actually really strange, since almost every school teaches it starting from first or second grade... But really at the end even if they can read English, they mostly suck at writing and are even worse at spoken English.
What surprises me even more is that most of my friends started learning some third language at university and got much better at it (be it Dutch, French, Chinese, etc.) than English.

And yep, I remember coming upon translations of your fics, though I didn't read them since I prefer the originals.