You speak English yes? Or?

"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
02/24/2015 at 17:59 • Filed to: None

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I got an A+ on this.. It's rather easy though, but it's all fun and games :)

DISCUSSION (20)

itschrome > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:03

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Yeah, maybe... How ever I sure do enjoy running children over with cars too much to teach them..

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:03

Apparently I would make a wonderful english teacher... Oh no... cue Garrison Kiellor english major jokes.

Tipo Stradale Fever > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:03

Kinja'd!!!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > itschrome
02/24/2015 at 18:05

Yeah, I got the same result. As a Norwegian I must say that this result.. well.. not the most accurate :P

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
02/24/2015 at 18:06

Yeah, I would make a great teacher as well... not sure about that though :P

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:07

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Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:07

I'll tell you what half of them were guesses at best. My first language is French so I have a very hard time with the words that sound the same but are spelled different. I got an A+ but I think it's because the correct answer was there to see. because half of them I would not of even thought of if I was writting a sentence.

desertdog5051 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:08

That was way too easy. For a person (you) who does not speak English as a first language, I kind of expected that as well. You learned proper grammar. Unfortunately, many English speakers learn from the streets or social media.

jkm7680 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:10

Kinja'd!!!

Oh goody.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > desertdog5051
02/24/2015 at 18:14

That's the thing though.. I find that I have better grammar than people who speak English as a native language..

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Luc - The Acadian Oppo
02/24/2015 at 18:15

My native language is Norwegian :P Don't know if that's good or bad though.

scoob > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:19

Don't worry, both of you did much better than the average American teenager.

Source: I am an American teenager :P

desertdog5051 > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:22

And you do.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > scoob
02/24/2015 at 18:22

The reason that/this happens is probably because we tend to take some pride in learning "foreign" languages, whereas in the US you just need to learn enough to get by.

RallyWrench > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:26

Nice work. I'm fairly certain that English is taught better in places where it's a second (or third, fourth or fifth) language than it is in the US.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > RallyWrench
02/24/2015 at 18:31

I've got a feeling you're right. I hope I'm wrong though.. but.. yeah. Here in Norway it's a second language, we learn it from the age of six or so.. We can choose German/Spanish/French as a third language when we're 14 or so. That said, I'm not fluent in English or German (my third language) but I can read German and Dutch, and I can understand some Spanish and Italian.

vdub_nut: scooter snob > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 18:50

I believe you mean "How *well* is my English".

And it's fine.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > vdub_nut: scooter snob
02/24/2015 at 18:52

How should I know, It's my second language :)

Biased Plies > Luc - The Acadian Oppo
02/24/2015 at 21:01

..."would not have even thought of...

NJAnon > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2015 at 21:28

Well I wouldn't make a parade or anything just yet Laird. That test doesn't even qualify as a test of english composition and/or grammar. That was simple stuff. Subject and predicate is simple stuff. For anyone that speaks english as a 2nd language:

Understand that English speakers are just as irritated as you are learning English. If there is a list of languages that have a obscene amount of "slang", english would be at the top because of its swath of rules and no rules. Folks just use the slang to bypass the crap. :P

Even when you have gone over a sentence or paragraph and satisfied all the parameters for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, vowels, consonants, prepositions, alliteration, similes, metaphors, etc. There are still at least 6 possible errors. Isn't learning fun?