I Need Help! Do You Have Problems Learning English?

[dizzytrizzy07]

i remember HABBOing before (i've got a bunch of american friends there).. i dun remember what really happened but i just remember that i said something to one of them and she just got mad at me.. i know i didnt say something bad to her and it seemed she "misunderstood" me.. so after that, i became careful and learn english more cuz i might "hurt" others cuz it's still different though you know english.. i'm not a native english speaker and i dont have a "full grasp" of the language.

[dizzytrizzy07]

btw, i love reading comments too, especially comments on youtube vids so that i'll learn some slangs.. for me to be "updated" :) he he.. people here in the Phils. are so particular in the language that they immediately notice if there's somethin bad or somethin like that.. some are so scrutinizing and i hate people who do that thingy :'(

[dizzytrizzy07]

not that much. i love it.. just speak and speak then ya'll be used to it. i used to ask people (in chatboxes, blah blah social sites and etc.) some tips on how to be a good english speaker and reading my posts make make them tell me i dun have problem with that language! "it sounds fine.. sounds great and natural".. i used to do this back in my early high school days.. that time i just seem to not notice that asking them starts conversations which makes me speak english more.. :)

[procrastin8r89]

i sorry that voice thing is craaacking me upppp LMAOOOOO

[lalaland621346]

she really need help she cant even talk i dont now what she say

[fressita88]

Hey! well i speak spanish and portuguese and the TH sound its gonna kill me! also R. all the voiceless and voiceled pronunciation. So hard get a lot of practice. For real listen and repeat ten times per day...

[demonxsayoko]

Hm. I started to learn English after learning German so at first my pronunciation was horrible or even worse! But I started to get it after a time, so now it's okay. & I don't think you have a strong accent, in fact, I think it's rather nice. :)

I'm Hungarian, so my language is not similar to English or German in the least but still it was okay to learn them. I'm 16 & now I started to learn Italian, wah, it's funny, I recommend it for you all, it's English with a strange pronunciation, reallyXD

[goodall19]

ur bonkers 4 sure...... i tink it varies between individuals realy... but i have no difficulties as i speak english all the time but invariably that affects my mother tongue as i have now forgotten how to communicate properly with it ...... it sucks coz it takes mr forever to have a convo with my grandmother..... ive lost touch with my roots u could say. it also depends where u r born n so on.

[Hammersolid]

Hi Puffer. First of all I'd like to say that Asian and British/American languages are very different(if compare English and Ukrainian or Russian there's still some same sounds and letters). I think You should get to British/American environment(maybe in university?) so U could loose you're accent(which is terrible.XD sorry)? It helped me a bit... but I'm still having troubles with times(like past perfect, indefinite, etc). Or You maybe could watch more English movies without translation? Cheers!

[indiced]

Accent is a cosmic feature;P

I speak Polish (native) and simply learnt English accent, but: English-British, it sounds funny:D my friends prefer AmE Accent, but I do not mind British. There was a time when I spoke lower-middle-class London accent, just accidentally, it was ridiculous;P

English is not difficult Language, in past 2 years circa 2.000.000 of Poles went to UK... so I guess English is not difficult, ONLY two types of declension...LOL

[Hammersolid]

Hi Pufferfish. I guess that this is kinda country dependent problem. Ukrainian, Russian, German etc languages are more or less similar to English(similar sounds and some letters). But Asian languages is totally different. I'd advise You to find some british/american environment(may be in some university?) so they could help U to loose your accent(which is really terrible.xD sorry). At least this helped me a bit, but i'm still bad with all those times(past perfect,indefinite,etc). Those are crazy

[jasonfernan]

the ending was so funny btw you're nuts

[jasonfernan]

Book also states that the older the age at immigration , the poorer of a second language(esl).Kids that immigrate between 3-7 years old can speak like a native of x country, after 17 years old they would never speak as an english native for instance. I can scan the whole chapter from my book if it helps

[jasonfernan]

My past lesson in my psyc class was about thinking and language. According to B. Lee Whorf linguistic determination language determines the way we think, in other words a chinese thinks different when he speaks chinese than when he speaks engl.

[blueskywclouds]

i will make a vid response .. ohh you look so cute in this vid :D i love it

[Maryangel24]

well, i speak german, so my main problem is, that there are words that look the same but don't mean the same: e.g. will... in german it means "i want" and in english..well in english it means "i will"..^^ ok, this one was easy to learn, but there are a lot of things, like expressions u can't use in english or vice versa. and also the structure in the sentence (ASVOA - adverb, subject, verb, object, adverb) - that's something a lot of ppl do wrong here in switzerland ^^

[AuthorUnreal]

I've got an example:

My surname is Lithuanian - It starts with a "J" but is pronounced like a "Y". People mispronounce it wrong all the time !! So yeah, Pirateporty is right.

[PiratePorty]

WOHO ;-)

lol

[cjk122]

hm... one fact is the individual accent I think... but I don't know how the german culture influenced the way I learned english or if it influenced it at all... I'll think about it...

[indiced]

I've learnt English and German (and Russian;p)

and after every Deutsch lesson, at English lesson I made such stupid mistakes, like, "Englisch", or wrote every Noun with big first Letter;P

[cjk122]

uh I know this problem xD I learn english and dutch and because these laguages are very similar sometimes I really have probs with english grammar now -.-^^

[PiratePorty]

lol the voices XD

ok so lets think....well first there's the accent and maybe problems with pronunciation some words, ummm another thing could be the fact that English is similar to some other languages (letters) but they are not pronounced the same way ( for example some English and Russian letters are the same "C" but in russian it pronounced like English "S" and not "c")

hhmmm I hope I helped you, and that it wasn't too confusing! :S

[PiratePorty]

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