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Ruffle the cat
Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 32 Location: different counties
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: conflicts in class |
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Try Chinese uni students most have taken 8 yrs of grammer from some one who doesn't speak english.
Here is a case in point not a student but my best friend. I said look at the dolls he said they are dulls I said no they are dolls. He said my english teacher in high school said it was pronounced dulls. Who speaks english here I said. You do says he, teacher was wrong.
Really this guy was very western in his thought so it wasn't a problem to say the above to him but it might be to other people. |
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Insubordination

Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 394 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe it was American English. They would say something akin to 'dulls'. |
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GueroPaz
Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 216 Location: Thailand or Mexico
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Insubordination wrote: |
| Maybe it was American English. They would say something akin to 'dulls'. |
Not in the 3 American states I lived in!
I met my best friend, a native speaker of Mandarin, after he'd been in the States about three years. His English was quite rough, although he'd studied it a lot in northern China. Ten years later, he's great at English! |
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