English as not a first language

[dighn]

yes i like it. it's pretty much like a native language to me now. i think in it most of the time.

do i prefer it over chinese? that's a hard question. i would say i like them equally. i still speak chinese at home, watch chinese television and read chinese papers.

i wouldn't say it takes me more effort to understand and speak english. in fact it takes me more effor tot speak chinese because of my limited chinese vocabulary.

came here at 12

 

[Raj]

no preference really. I am better at english than english though.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: cipher00
In the early 1900's an enterprising fellow penned a little tome to assist his fellow immigrants (Italian) in appreciating their newly adopted language. The title? "English as She is Spoke."

😀

Wrong.

In 1855 two Portuguese translators, José da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino, produced an English phrasebook so unbelievably bad that it was reprinted for half a century as a masterpiece of hilarity, under the title English as She is Spoke. Paul Collins of McSweeney's Books has reprinted a selection from it, and it's well worth picking up.

http://www.zompist.com/spoke.html