How did you learn english?

For all you dutch people, how did you learn?

As clever as we are,..

We let some people study your Language, so they could teach it to others.
And all this take's place in buildings we call School's.

in the beginning of 🇲🇾 times the was SKY channel.
I pikked up a lot from the t.v.

Later in school it was easy.
When i went to work i met a guy from the south of london and sat next to him for about 4 years.
I even picked up his accent but i guess i'm lossing it cause i don't talk english that much anymore

well thats all folks

Don't forget TV, probably one of the most popular educational instruments nowadays.

School and living in England.

From my nabour, a Irish bloke

He realy fucked up my accent!

Uitspraak van Broken Rules op maandag 29 augustus 2005 om 21:01:

For all you dutch people,

i'm not dutch,so i can't answer on this topic...

op school!

nice fake profile!

by fucking youre mother

fake

Uitspraak van verwijderd op maandag 29 augustus 2005 om 21:06:

in the beginning of 🇲🇾 times the was SKY channel.
I pikked up a lot from the t.v.

the DJ-cat show

Uitspraak van verwijderd op maandag 29 augustus 2005 om 22:15:

by fucking youre mother

haha...

Ofcourse I learned a lot from the television. But since a few years, I'm part of an online community, and I speak to the guys almost every day. Most of them are from the UK, or from Ireland, so English is the main language we use!
I learned the basics on school, and from the television. But I learned the more difficult words or lines in this online community!

School, Teacher Training, 2.5 years in the UK....

Uitspraak van verwijderd op maandag 29 augustus 2005 om 22:15:

by fucking youre mother

she obviously didn't teach you how to spell ...

My mum & dad tought me (my 1st language),
as they are english.

On school, dude..

But before school i already went a couple of time to England on my vacation and i learned it also there.

Uitspraak van Broken Rules op maandag 29 augustus 2005 om 21:01:

For all you dutch people, how did you learn?

I learned it from that broken rules guy

but growing up in canada helped alot

Uitspraak van AmunRa op dinsdag 30 augustus 2005 om 00:10:

but growing up in canada helped alot

i thought you Canadians spoke French ?

Uitspraak van Engelsman op maandag 29 augustus 2005 om 23:20:

My mum & dad tought me (my 1st language),
as they are english.

Same here

Uitspraak van E-Noid op dinsdag 30 augustus 2005 om 01:45:

i thought you Canadians spoke French ?

Well technically we all can, its our second national language

English
French
Nunavut

are the 3 offical spoken languages here

I grew up with french mostly, and learned in english when i moved out of Quebec mostly, however my french really sucks now as i can only read it but no longer speak it

Telli and ad school of course

I worked at an American Company (Pratt and Wittney, Airplane Engines) as receptionst/telephonist, so I had to speak Englisch al day

Uitspraak van verwijderd op maandag 29 augustus 2005 om 23:18:

she obviously didn't teach you how to spell ...

nee je naam is lkrr .

cursus nederlands mischien.

hehe thats cool

i know alot of people in holland say they learn from tv and movies

van Muzzi, green, big and fuzzy

I attended an International school in my younger years, where the language is obviously English. And at home we spoke English, as my dad did not speak any Dutch at that time, I didn't attend a 'normal' Dutch school until I was 10. I even still dream in English sometimes and can even express myself better in this language! It is strange after all those years, but true.

I learned it by watching TV

Learned it from watching The Fun Factory on Sky Channel, and later the DJ Cat show.
Alos from English friends on Holidays.

I learned in the school... but it is not enought becuase most of Spanish people don't speak english and they study it at school!
I learned seeing some films in english and translating sogns in english that I liked some years ago.

There is only so much you can learn about a language through study. You have to get the "feel" for a language through using it regularly. Some people never pick up that feel, even if they've been speaking the language for years.

i learnt english while i was really young

i learnt english along with my dialect, way before knowing the national language..... lol

What's your dialect, if I can ask?

I'm watching english cartoons since im 3 years old (without subtitles)

And then at school I always had a A+ for my tests.

English is very easy.

Uitspraak van verwijderd op maandag 5 september 2005 om 23:23:

English is very easy.

I KNOW!! But why the hell do some young people speak it so badly then? I listen to some people my age, or younger, using the English language and it astonishes me. It doesn't even resemblance US tv or anything. I find it quite strange, people should speak more English I recon..

But then again, if you can become PM of Holland with such an accent, why should anyone even try?

Uitspraak van Faisal op dinsdag 6 september 2005 om 08:25:

I KNOW!! But why the hell do some young people speak it so badly then? I listen to some people my age, or younger, using the English language and it astonishes me. It doesn't even resemblance US tv or anything. I find it quite strange, people should speak more English I recon..

But then again, if you can become PM of Holland with such an accent, why should anyone even try?

recon? your complaining about people using english badly, and yet you use the word recon.

And? The problem with that is........ ? At least I use the language..

But my comment was a friendly one, I was not complaining. I am just wondering how it can be that in this day and age younger people sometimes speak English in a not so fantastic way. With all the US/UK programs on tv, books, magazines and English songs one could imagine that the use of the language could be better. But my experiance it that it is not.

*edit*

I just realized that "recon" is obviously not a British English word, it's an Australian English slang kind of thing... I worked with Ozzies for years.. But it's English

hahaha

it's RECKON

lol

but my dialect is more spanish-based that indo/malay-based

^_^

watching englisch movies, at school of course, reading books and that kind of stuff

My 2 years in the States

Uitspraak van uberbiatch op dinsdag 6 september 2005 om 12:34:

it's RECKON

Really?!? How funny is that!! Me preaching the English thing, and then getting a word wrong! Hahaha.. Anyway... Let's all start TALKING English with a little bit more love & feeling..

I learned to speak English trough the mirracle we call Television, Seen lot's of shows and my Family wich I have in the States and on Aruba brought me video's of Barney
That's a popular kidsshow overthere.
And by taking businesscalls for my former stepdad at home.

Uitspraak van KellyLynn op maandag 5 september 2005 om 15:14:

What's your dialect, if I can ask?

Mine's American, but I've been speaking English for so long I can do several accent's.

I learned it from all the adult movies

Did you know you should use a capital D if you write the word Dutch?

And I learned something while i'm working for a US companie for the last 4+ years

School, living in the UK .... my English m8s are complaining, my accent is better than theirs WOOOOO

school

lived abroad for a while so it goes naturally.mostly just listening to others or watching tv.

School & TV

My mum & dad tought me scouse......that's ehm a sort of english

what's SCOUSE?

(old)School

Uitspraak van uberbiatch op vrijdag 16 september 2005 om 14:35:

what's SCOUSE?

Liverpool dialect

Uitspraak van Faisal op dinsdag 6 september 2005 om 19:26:

Let's all start TALKING English with a little bit more love & feeling

Talking with love and feeling in any language would make the world a much nicer place.
Still, I'm curious to know why you are placing so much emphasis on English when we're living in the Netherlands?