Ha - yes. I've got students here who taught themselves English just by listening to music

Or watching movies. And when I arrived, and realised how few English teachers could even pronounce English correctly (because they'd been taught by non-native speakers, and it's like a cycle that continues), it was a bit of a shock.

I often feel very very privileged. We're so lucky to speak the lingua franca and come from a country which has so much respect all over the world. We'll always be in demand in a continent like this.

Posted By: thebigfeller on February 10th 2015 at 01:49:09

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I love Hungarians. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:00:06
- Incidentally, my grandmother is Hungarian. She HATES Hungarians, despises them (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:30:03
  - Too much Goulash . (n/m) (NCFC) - CROYDONCANARY, Feb 10, 08:29:13
  - Weird how badly holocaust survivors were treated (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 01:50:13
    - the locals in eastern Europe often enthusiast (NCFC) - Joe Strimmer, Feb 10, 07:37:30
    - You know thousands ended up stuck in the camps for years afterwards? (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:53:39
      - Yeah a quarter of a million (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 02:00:21
        
        And how the survivors were treated explains, of course, their furious desire to establish (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 02:04:46
        
        Yep (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 02:12:53
  - Did she despise them on November 25th 1953? (n/m) (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:33:11
    - Not a football fan, sadly. In fact, there's no background of football fandom in my family (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:34:51
      - Same here (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 01:51:36
        
        VMT. Props to Ceefax, Oracle and the Rothmans Football Yearbook :) (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:54:52
        
        Props? (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 10, 08:32:10
        
        The internet suggests it's possibly from "proper respect" and/or "proper recognition" (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Feb 10, 09:39:48
- When I did my TESOL five years ago, we had four classes in another language (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:26:58
  - "Egan" - always struck me as odd that the word for "yes" has 2 syllables. (n/m) (NCFC) - Muzzi, Feb 10, 08:18:12
  - Mine was Turkish, we got quite a lot after just a couple of days (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:31:35
    - Yes for sure. We had one class in Finnish at school. My God! (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:34:12
      - Yeah, all the time. English teachers are the worst (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:45:05
        
        Ha - yes. I've got students here who taught themselves English just by listening to music (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:49:09
- Nagyon szepen kosonom (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:00:22
  - s?rga hadsereg (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:05:59
    - Jo! (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:12:09
  - Dont bother with Google translate, it will always be wrong. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:03:57
    - Wasn't Google translate. I actually do speak (a little) Hungarian (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:11:18
      - You should meet my I (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:19:52
        
        You should meet my Immy, she is Hungarian. Very hard language to learn. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:20:30
        
        Well done for learning some Hungarian, big Kudos. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 08:24:29
        
        You're not kidding. Grammar totally unlike any other language I know (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:27:12
        
        Dunno if you two have twitter but George Szirtes is on there (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:47:43

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