Struggling with English
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Being both overwhelmed with complexes because I'm not a fluent English speaker (such a relief my writing does not reflect my grotesque pronounciation, some of my English friends call me "Inspecteur Clouseau") and totally obsessed by languages, I keep buying books about grammar or vocabulary. Not as a punition, I really enjoy reading them (though I prefer crime stories)...
Vivian Cook, author of Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary, has set a quiz in The Guardian to test our knowledge of some of the most difficult and frequently misspelt words in the language. |
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I've got the same troubles regine :)
let's put some interesting french words in english so that we can have nice french-english idiomatic expression like "I gave him a rabbit" or "I don't give a merde" :)
keep on trucking
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;-))))) yes, and insert lots of "Olalah!" and "Ce n'est pas possible!" in our posts.
If it's any consolation, many supposed native English speakers/writers may as well be foreigners, so bad are their grammar, spelling, etc. At least you can claim more than functional fluency in a tongue not your first; I doubt more than a diminutive minority of native Anglolinguists can claim the same.
But 'ave yew get a minkey on yur beck? ;)