English - not a mother tongue for some of us

[TOTO]

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]

They're all KBers. We should have a competition to figure out who they are.

[breakaway]

It's fucking hard to learn a language once you're past a certain age :mellow:

[Dilligaf]

I'd still be a teacher if I could do what they were doing in number two.
Whakish! :spanking:

[breakaway]

It certainly seems like a sweet job. Class filled with hot asian chicks etc.

[Mikkel]

3rd video is funny. Somehow it made me think of MP. :niceone:

[ukbandit]

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]

That first one, :headbang: I wanna teach there!

[007XX]

It's fucking hard to learn a language once you're past a certain age :mellow:

And what age might that be?

[breakaway]

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]

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]

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]

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]

In your thread heading you should have writen "the mother t..." not "a mother t".

Strueth.

[TOTO]

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: