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TOTO
18th February 2008, 18:50
ha , some of us had to learn english...and it was funny...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gHuAYcUfvrg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5sQw7KY7vRw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GxuEBUXJ2rQ
James Deuce
18th February 2008, 19:59
They're all KBers. We should have a competition to figure out who they are.
breakaway
18th February 2008, 23:22
It's fucking hard to learn a language once you're past a certain age :mellow:
Dilligaf
19th February 2008, 08:14
I'd still be a teacher if I could do what they were doing in number two.
Whakish! :spanking:
breakaway
19th February 2008, 08:44
It certainly seems like a sweet job. Class filled with hot asian chicks etc.
Mikkel
19th February 2008, 16:10
3rd video is funny. Somehow it made me think of MP. :niceone:
ukbandit
20th February 2008, 11:45
ha , some of us had to learn english...and it was funny...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gHuAYcUfvrg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5sQw7KY7vRw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GxuEBUXJ2rQ
that was funny :laugh::laugh::laugh:
deanohit
20th February 2008, 12:01
That first one, :headbang: I wanna teach there!
007XX
20th February 2008, 12:12
It's fucking hard to learn a language once you're past a certain age :mellow:
And what age might that be?
breakaway
20th February 2008, 12:20
After some research I have foudn that it is a myth :shit:
However that rule does apply to accents. Unless you work really hard to get rid of your 'old' accent. Saw it on a documentary where they were training Indians to talk like Americans for help desk jobs. (100% serious here btw)
007XX
20th February 2008, 12:29
After some research I have foudn that it is a myth :shit:
Bugger! There was I, getting all excited about being able to get into a good argument...:laugh:
However that rule does apply to accents. Unless you work really hard to get rid of your 'old' accent. Saw it on a documentary where they were training Indians to talk like Americans for help desk jobs. (100% serious here btw)
Yes, I'd have to agree with that...I've been in NZ for 14 years now, and didn't speak any english when I arrived (french originally).
I still have an accent, but people's feedback on the way I sound has changed over the years. These days, I get anything from dutch or south african...:confused:
I don't think I'll ever really get rid of it.
Hitcher
20th February 2008, 12:39
Age 11-12 is generally the age at which an *accent* cannot be unlearned. Voice box hardening. That sort of stuff.
You don't sound that much like Inspector Clouseau, V. More like Jacques Cousteau...
007XX
20th February 2008, 12:50
Age 11-12 is generally the age at which an *accent* cannot be unlearned. Voice box hardening. That sort of stuff.
You don't sound that much like Inspector Clouseau, V. More like Jacques Cousteau...
Eerrr, sorry sir...but there is hardly any difference between the two to be honnest.
As mightily awesome as was Monsieur Jacques Cousteau, his accent was what I would consider fairly coarse french accent. His son Jean Michel Cousteau however...:whistle:
And the grandson is just :drool: (sorry, I just had to...)
Fatjim
20th February 2008, 13:54
In your thread heading you should have writen "the mother t..." not "a mother t".
Strueth.
TOTO
21st February 2008, 16:05
In your thread heading you should have writen "the mother t..." not "a mother t".
Strueth.
Wel, I iS a foerner my Friend so Me thinking heading of thread are apropriete in theese case :niceone:
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