Способ улучшить английский.
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Если только, Лола, он не хочет "замаскироваться" ets.Культурный человек жаргоном в своей речи не пользуется, на любом языке.
BEZ
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Do You Think English is Easy???
Read to the end . . . a new twist to an oldie
Can you read these right the first time?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. I f you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP! . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP , so........... it is time to shut UP.....!
Oh . one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P
Read to the end . . . a new twist to an oldie
Can you read these right the first time?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. I f you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP! . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP , so........... it is time to shut UP.....!
Oh . one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P
J
Josie
Guest
Читаю книги, газеты все без разбора.Стараюсь выбирать английских или новозеландских писателей.У американских немного другая грамматика и spelling.Слушаю talk radio.
Asmira
Guest
Я еще когда в России была делала так, чтоб набрать словарный запас, у нас в городе была библиотека Бритиш консил и там там книжки брала выше своего тогдашнего уровня знания английского языка, а когда читала то было много неизвестных мне слов.Так как память больше зрительная у меня, то я выписывала все непонятные слова из текста красной ручкой столбиком, а потом со словарем писала перевод черной ручкой,и таких листочков много-много у меня было, я их в туалете, на кухне, в корридоре, возле компа развешивала, меняла местами периодически, чтоб на глазах было, и так же граматику учила таблички с временами сама от руки писала разными цветами.Может кому-то поможет.
L
LaVRSS
Guest
а я сейчас немецкий подучиваю - просто устроился в компанию где немцы работают.... то же самое и с английским вполне можно проделать - через год будете говорить на лету причем со всей терминологией по вашей специальности... (тяжело первые пару месяцев - потом нормально)))
J
Josie
Guest
А я вот решила учить Maori .Не знаю как продуктивно ,но пригодится .
L
LaVRSS
Guest
Я не к тому "ЧТО" учить, а как это можно сделать))
Если не секрет, расскажите как его изучаете..
J
Josie
Guest
Записалась на беспалтные курсы для начинающих;посмотрите наверняка в Вашем городе они тоже есть
Bот если будет время то можете просмотреть на досуге --
grammar
phrases
for leaners
Удачи Вам
PS.Извините за offtop
S
spool
Guest
Неа. Не пригодится.
На нем умеет говорить максимум 4% населения страны.
Это меньше трети самих маори.
Никакой уникальной информации только на маори не существует.
И нет пожалуй ни одной ситуации когда можно объясниться на нем и нельзя на английском.
Мандарин пригодится намного больше
J
Josie
Guest
Мандарин пригодится намного больше
Мандарин это хорошо.Хотя если я останусь в Dunedin , то мне прийдется немецкий учить.Это фуфло написано только чтобы написать что-то.
На этом языке говорят практически все обособленные и изолированные поселения маори.
С ними (поселениями) работают специалисты различных ведомств NZ, для которых знание этого языка - обязанность.
Мне лично эту работу предлагали в прошлом году (причем за хорошую зарплату).
S
spool
Guest
Полностью с Вами согласен.
Только вот первую строчку надо или поставить в подпись или выделять как заголовок.
А для тех которые писатели а не читатели повторяю м е д л е н н о
В переписи указали что говорят на маори 160 тыс народу. (при том что самих маори больше полумиллиона)
Но сказать и говорить не одно и тоже.
Подсчеты из других источников дают цифру что говорить достаточно свободно чтобы заявлять что это их native language могут 50 тыс.
Учить язык на котором говорит 50-80 тыс (не забываем что они все при этом замечательно говорят на аглицком) не для конкретной задачи а на предмет - вдруг пригодится?
Правильный ответ будет - нет, не пригодится.
Хорошо я подумаю
Полмиллиона себя позиционирует как маори.
Я Вас умоляю - так уж и все - а "непримеримые" , например.
А те кому учиться лень?
S
spool
Guest
Ха. Кто же от такого счастья добровольно откажется?
Это я Вас умоляю.
Я старался цифры все же в пользу маори сдвинуть.
Потому что учить язык чтобы пообщаться с нациками которые белых терпеть не могут настолько что даже на аглицком совсем не говорят, это уже скорее для мазохизма чем для "вдруг пригодится"
Мы ведь еще не забыли условия задачи?
Я же не говорю что язык совсем ненужный ( хотя что-то в этой мысли мне нравится
Кому то наверное нужный
YeeeesКому то наверное нужный
J
Josie
Guest
Не общаться ,а понимать о чем они говорятПотому что учить язык чтобы пообщаться с нациками которые белых терпеть не могут настолько что даже на аглицком совсем не говорят, это уже скорее для мазохизма чем для "вдруг пригодится"
Ollga
Member
А какие фразы и местный сленг вы используете в быту? Несколько примеров можете написать.
А то с пониманием языка хорошо, а говорить пока трудно...
J
Josie
Guest
Мои знакомые туристов из Германии называют "ya-yas"
Sunday driver - кто медленно ездит
Crib -дом на берегу (для отдыха в выходные дни) --но ето в основном для South Island;по -моему на North Island его называют bach
Scarfie --студент
Посмотрите тут:
https://www.narodnz.com/index.php?showtopic=4265
Или тут:
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/kiwi.htm
Но уже без перевода.