Oh, that's a bit lame, haha, but I grew up with Queen's Highlander theme song so please excuse that bad joke.

Well.. is this a flood topic? What are we supposed to do? Just write rubbish and codwallops in English? Declame some of Shakespeare's rhymes? Discuss the superstrings theory? Get lost in translation and drink whiskey in Tokyo?

Your turn. :p

Talk about everythings you want.
I would like to progress in english, so tell me if I write some mistakes... Thanks!

I would have said "if I do some mistakes."

Anyway. The babel thing is a cool idea.

I have hesitate between "do" and "write". I'm clumsy sometimes... Thanks for your help!

Thanks, it was my idee.

I have hesitated / I did hasitate.

passé composé = aux + verbe en ED pour les verbes faibles.

I feel like a novice...

Don't worry, I still make mistakes after all these years!

I come back from my job. In my home at last !! Could I be quiet ? No, in my forum, which is not mine anymore but it's the same, we speak english now. My brain is not ready for this. Sorry...

Sometimes I feel the other way round: my brain is not ready for French. I call it the ex-expat' syndrome! When you spend many years in a foreign country speaking English and Danish everyday, you come to forget you speak French... HAHAHA!

JCVD, get out of this body lol

When I came back from Greece, I arrived at Roissy Airport. Somebody talked to me in french, and I seem to have changed of planet...

We have a lot of clients who speak english at the hotel. We have to change language in few seconds... That's awful. We loose our latin.

Lose.
Loose c'est pas pareil... :p

JCVD... get out!!! Sometimes English comes more easily or faster. It's quite funny when you have to speak Danish, English and French almost at the same time... After a while I was so used to it that I didn't notice what laguage my mates were using. Was it Danish? Was it English? I stopped a moment to think about it and realised it probably was a good thing if I was able to understand without thinking of the language in use.

But i'm losing it. I haven't been speaking Danish for almost eight months, and it's way too long a period. I miss Danish and I can't wait to start again next September... It would be really cool to meet some Danes... and also start learning Italian and do some German again. I feel a bit excited.

It's so difficult for me, I speak school english and I haven't pratice before a long years
It's to bad.

We don't ask complicated things. Just try...

Where is my cat ? My cat is behind his tree. Oh, so sweet... I'm going to give it a hug

"I haven't practiced for years / for a long time / since I left school."

Before = avant.
Since= depuis (quand y'a un repère temporel précis ou une date)
For: pendant / depuis (durée)

ne pas oublier la marque du participe en ED après un auxiliaire (présent perfect: HAVE + Verbe-ED) pour les verbes normaux, s'entend...

To: pour / à / marque de l'infinitif etc.
Too: trop / très.
Donc: It's too bad.

I can help for not so complicated things. As I don't think before speaking, I sometimes have problems to explain why we use that form or that verb or why we don't write this way and so on. I just do it.

If you want to improv your skills, read books or articles in English, take some paragraphs and analyze tham (where and what are the verbs, what are their use, etc.), listen to English music, watch English spoken movies (with and without subtitles.)
It may take some time...

For the grammatical aspect, there's some books like "Anglais de A à Z", every point is explained with examples and exercises. I have it for German also.

Raphaël McGregor a écrit:

Sometimes I feel the other way round: my brain is not ready for French. I call it the ex-expat' syndrome! When you spend many years in a foreign country speaking English and Danish everyday, you come to forget you speak French... HAHAHA!

Like David Charvet...

Mi english is poor ^^

and my tailor is rich...

I'm a fan of Gad Elmaleh!

"where is Brian?"

Here's a little video on youtube with an English guy (UK NUMBER OOOONE) who speaks english with 24 different accents. My favourites* one are the Irish one and the Australian one, they both sounds great. When I was studying english at the university, our teachers told us we could use any accents during class, so I tried to speak Irish but they never noticed it...

*favourite c'est british, tandis que favorite c'est américain.

Excellent!

My favourite are northern English, Scottish, Irish.
The French accent almost sounds like Algerian accent or something like that.

Scottish accent is my favourite!

What if Raph was speaking with a Scottish accent... lmao

... he'll give me fever!

The actor isn't scottish?
Paul McGillion and Ewan McGregor speak with their accent... ggrrr!

...*checking the info*

Yes, he is Scottish. From Glasgow as it appears.

ggrrr!