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.
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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Date: 2007-04-10 03:17 pm (UTC)I'm a little weird on that though. Some words are completely natural to me, while others my brain goes "What, that's wrong DDD:" (example: defence. My brain tells me it's wrong (and firefox spellcheck XD), but I know it isn't. XD)
Also, it's zee, not zed. 8DHalf the time I don't even know wtf I'm saying T_T;