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Message board > Why do you like English?
Why do you like English?
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JulietaVL
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English was one of the most boring subjects for me... but in preparatory school I had a teacher who was awesome!
She made me feel interested in English, her classes have been the best classes I�ve ever had in my life, I still remember her with love... my ex teacher Elsa :D |
13 Oct 2009
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1. Sounds nice and smooth, instead of other ls. I speak/ or just listen to, that sound harsh.
2. Very plastic and concise; excellent both for poetry & technology.
When I started to translate every other tec., computer-related exp. into Portuguese, it would take a lot of words to translate a simple two-word expression (Portuguese is more, say, analytic and the words tend to be longer). So, I had a hard time and a couple of good intentions for noth.
However our neigbours, the Spanish, tend to translate everything: for instance, they translated links into enlaces; they don�t mind writing more and longer words.
Ex: English: computer-mediated communication /Internet research methods
Portuguese: comunica��o mediada pelo computador/ Met�dos de investiga��o com a internet (and this one would need another 2 prepositions+a conjunction to be as precise, such as: Met�dos de investiga��o com e atrav�s da internet ).
Best regards,
ij
edit: Douglas, next post, made a good point: since I travel as much as I can, it�s easier having English to communicate. And when people don�t treat me right or as well as I deserve, I can scold them in my British accent...  There! |
13 Oct 2009
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douglas
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Because it provides me with a paycheck 
Just kidding.
I like English because it is so international. You can use it to communicate with people all over the world. |
13 Oct 2009
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mariannina
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I agree with Douglas, I like it because I can communicate with a lot of people all over the world. When I was young French was the international language and I can communicate in that language, too. Spanish is very similar to Italian and I can manage in the Spanish speaking Countries, when it �s impossible to use one of those languages I speak...Sicilian!!!
Ciao |
13 Oct 2009
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Zora
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Well, I like English because I love how my language works - and strangely enough in school, I studied Business because I was good at Math and only just gave English a sidewards glance because it was "boring" then, even though I got good marks. Later on though, my first job was teaching English to pick up some extra cash for a trip and, well, I instantly fell in love with it.
It �s a simple, yet complicated language - sort of mathematical in structure. The logic behind the structures is very interesting especially when you compare it to a Latin-based language like Spanish or French - I love how it coincides a lot of times and yet how it can be so different too. I LOVE the vocabulary (always have, I used to - and still do - read dictionaries for fun!!) I love finding out the roots of words, how they evolved and the simple logical nature of some words and what �s so amazing is that the language is growing at an amazing rate because if English doesn �t have a word for something and, for example German does, we just take the word and adopt it!!
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13 Oct 2009
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Mariethe House
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I simply  English because it is so precise , logical , poetical, strong, clear....
So easy in its conception of grammar.... I think you have to be in a lazy frame of mind to understand English! I mean in Frengh we have so many conjugations for verbs..; In English: so easy : I love, you love they love ... Why should life be complicated when it can be so easy?
But getting into that way of seeing things is not so easy! You need observation before you can understand why the language functions that way and not any other! Anyway, before I get all mixed up in what I want to say I �ll just say: I love English!!
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13 Oct 2009
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