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    Cool English - not a mother tongue for some of us

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

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

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    3rd video is funny. Somehow it made me think of MP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TOTO View Post
    that was funny
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    That first one, I wanna teach there!
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    Quote Originally Posted by breakaway View Post
    It's fucking hard to learn a language once you're past a certain age
    And what age might that be?
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    Time to cut out the "holier/more enlightened than thou" bullshit and the "slut" comments and let people live honestly how they like providing they're not harming themselves or others in the process.

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    After some research I have foudn that it is a myth

    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)

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    After some research I have foudn that it is a myth

    Bugger! There was I, getting all excited about being able to get into a good argument...

    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...

    I don't think I'll ever really get rid of it.
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    Time to cut out the "holier/more enlightened than thou" bullshit and the "slut" comments and let people live honestly how they like providing they're not harming themselves or others in the process.

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    Age 11-12 is generally the age at which an *accent* cannot be unlearned. Voice box hardening. That sort of stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    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...

    And the grandson is just (sorry, I just had to...)
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    Time to cut out the "holier/more enlightened than thou" bullshit and the "slut" comments and let people live honestly how they like providing they're not harming themselves or others in the process.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fatjim View Post
    In your thread heading you should have writen "the mother t..." not "a mother t".

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    Wel, I iS a foerner my Friend so Me thinking heading of thread are apropriete in theese case
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