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

[mayezinha.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends of the region, many particular schools include ESL, because the government-approved average is not quite good.
They're many courses and stuff, but I believe that globalization makes people to learn or at least read in english, but that doesn't mean we improve pronunciation.
About my case, this is why I say I'm weird, the bicultural luggage implies some useless references (to many people), ergo my topics are kinda... strange. Or people tended to say we were uptight or elitist. Not that I'm a Malinche (a person who belives that foreign is better, the term has a historic background) per se, but my mind has been somewhere else.
Runaway roomie said the Creek was worth an anthropolgist study because of the behavior patterns aquired not only by me, but my frienda and family.
I think that roomie and I made lots of adjustments, because she made me notice that not everybody has my english level so I have to stop rolling my eyes on people who don't understand me, and because I do spanglish without noticing. Oops.
Salma Hayek's english is little bit better. XD