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Such an interesting post! I think a lot of confusion comes from accents too... Northern english people pronounce words more rounded and often shorten the words.. For example.... i would type dint instead of didn´t or summat instead of something. And im sure there are other takes on words too depending on the region you come from, which in turn can be very confusing to most trying to learn the correct way to write and speak english. A turkish friend finds the fact that we use words like... read or live in past and present context and becomes very confusing. I can´t explain to him the ins and outs of english grammar because it confuses me at times hahahaa. i learned to speak, read and write english but didn´t learn all about grammar, punctuation, nouns etc at school.. admittedly i was just too lazy to take it all in !
Soooo some english lessons on the latter would be very helpful too lol
Janette
The subject of pronunciation is a whole different topic and one that we could write much about. catwoman was saying her English pronunciaton was getting worse but I wonder who taught her in the first place. If she learnt from a northerner like me she would pronounce words very differently from someone from the south. If she learnt from an American it would be a different kettle of fish altogether! In England very few words have to be spoken to be able to identify pretty accurately where that person is from.
In addition,without wishing to offend anyone,I have very,very rarely heard a non-native English speaker who could be taken for a native and you can normally tell by their English accent which country they are from.I´m sure when we speak Turkish,even though we think we have the correct pronunciation, we are easily identified as English!
Edited (6/17/2010) by sonunda
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she is dutch
