I've been thinking about this ever since I started chatting with people... outside my country boarders. :P

 

 

 

So, yeah... I'm curious, when you chat with somebody from another country - whose native language isn't english - do you tend to use other types of words etc? Like, much simpler ones than you would normally; or is it something that you don't really think of, and you don't word yourself any differently? Or is it something else that I haven't covered already?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

// Azvi.

I think i speak fairly normally. Then again, the people i speak to who don't speak English as a first language are pratically fluent anyway, so it shouldn't matter. If i was speaking to someone who hardly spoke any English at all i'd probably try to make things as simple as possible.

I don't really thinkg about it so, I speak normally i'd say. But there have been times when someones been confused about what i've said so i'll word it differently if they ask/seem confused.

"Me Rizla, you woman!" :P

I know a guy here from the czech, everyone talks normally around him and if he doesnt get something (very rare actually) we just explain it.

"Me Rizla, you woman!" :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I belive I have seen him use that in IRC ;)

Almost everyone is fluent in English. I spent a month in Thailand over the summer, right amongst the northern hill-tribes (the ones who are persecuted by the Thai government for not being Thai). Even though spoke English!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only problem that I get is when I use slang, or shorten my words. So I don't do that any more. I did have a lot of fun explaining what 'minging' mean't to a spanish girl though. Me and my friends led her on for quite a while...

"Me Rizla, you woman!" :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You love it, sweetcheeks.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I was a bit (in lack of better words) concerned that people gave me some sort of "special treatment" just because I come from a different country. Because I'd hate that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, another question: if someone speaks english really terrible, and comes from another country, do you, sub-consciously, think of him/her as stupid?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

// Azvi.

Okay, another question: if someone speaks english really terrible, and comes from another country, do you, sub-consciously, think of him/her as stupid?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

// Azvi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not at all. I only wish schools in the UK would teach languages to the same extent as our foreign counterparts. I admire anyone who tries to, or can, speak a second language. It might sound ignorant but i know i couldn't even speak 1 word to Meesy in her language.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I was a bit (in lack of better words) concerned that people gave me some sort of "special treatment" just because I come from a different country. Because I'd hate that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, another question: if someone speaks english really terrible, and comes from another country, do you, sub-consciously, think of him/her as stupid?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

// Azvi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At first I do think of them as stupid because I forget I'm playing an international game. And then I'm like "oh yea...they probably don't speak english." Then I'm just amazed as I think of my trying to play a game in Spanish and not being able to do nearly as well as them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't even try and dumb my words down, but I do often find myself using very colloquial phrases and friends going "what?" and I have to word it in better English.

Me Meesy, Rizla stupid. :D

Me Meesy, Rizla stupid. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You just keep playing hard to get don't you :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've all seen it, like when you were in middle school and if you liked someone you'd call them names and whatnot. You're just too afraid to broadcast your love for me to the world!

 

Me Meesy, Rizla stupid. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You just keep playing hard to get don't you :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've all seen it, like when you were in middle school and if you liked someone you'd call them names and whatnot. You're just too afraid to broadcast your love for me to the world!

 

 

 

Oh Rizla, how could you see through my superb action skills! :(

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/me snarls at rizla stealing my runescape wife :evil:

I wrote a big, long explanation, but it was boring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simple answer (not because I don't think you can take the complicated one :)):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To the first question:

 

 

 

If I simplify what I write, it's only because many people don't like it when other people use big words--perhaps they think it's "showing off". Saying that, I have, when it's really necessary, used "easy" words to get a point across; by necessary, I mean when the person I'm talking to obviously isn't yet fluent enough to understand what I was going to say--whether they be foreign or stupid, sometimes this happens (though I've not noticed it happen on these boards at all).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To the second question:

 

 

 

No. I spent AGES just now thinking whether I do or not, then remembered an occasion recently when I came across someone who spoke terrible English as it wasn't their first language: I just thought of them as having trouble speaking English.

Aww Riz and Meesy have a Hey Arnold thing going on :D

 

 

 

"Move it football head!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anywhos, ON TOPIC I find it really hard not to patronise people who don't speak English as their first language. However, I quickly realise that, ironically, they speak better English than my other friends and, more often than not, myself :P

if they don't understand English AT ALL then I'll use like hand symbols or if it's online I'll use like smilie faces to communicate >_> :)

I play in a minesweeper flags league, and there are many people in there that don't know much english at all. I do try to use simpler words so they can understand, and if I talk to one of them long enough I use their terminology. For example, one of my friends says "I gained him" a lot when he's saying he beat somebody. Also, when someone resigns, he says, "He abandoned the game." It is interesting to see that most of them know quite a few vulgar terms as well.

Well, I don't really talk to that many non english speaking people, but yeah, i'll try and use simpler words just so they can understand the basic meanings, rather than me using a larger word where it's not necessarily necessary. :wink:

All none english people I speak to are also pretty much fluent in english, closest to not has gotta be daan who messes up every so often but is always comprehendable and normally better then me :P.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I was a bit (in lack of better words) concerned that people gave me some sort of "special treatment" just because I come from a different country. Because I'd hate that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, another question: if someone speaks english really terrible, and comes from another country, do you, sub-consciously, think of him/her as stupid?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

// Azvi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not at all, who ever would do that is really shallow. If someone is from a foreign country and trying to speak english, don't bring them down and say "LOLO U SUK AT ENGLIS", help them out with common verbs and nouns, or just talk to them, it's not hard to put together a sentence that has a few things missing.

If they've just come to the country and have made valid attemps at learning the launguage I show the up most respect. But if they have lived here for over a year and still can't say basic words in english I do consider them somewhat "lazy" or something like that.

english is not my 1st language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but i Do talk in simple words to every1 unless i m trying to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

confuse some1 :oops:

Woooh, okay. I'm very glad to hear that. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

// Azvi.