Campbell Ritchie wrote:Please supply more information, including your location, and whether you are offering this tuition free of charge. Do different countries have different dialects of Spanish? I know English varies greatly like that.
I have known Englishmen who can't understand a good Glaswegian accent, nor the way they talk in the North‑East of EnglandBruno Valdeolmillos wrote:. . . you can understand an Englishman, or a New Zealander, etc.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Please supply more information, including your location, and whether you are offering this tuition free of charge. Do different countries have different dialects of Spanish? I know English varies greatly like that.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Really? What happens if we have American visitors and I offer them faggots to eat? Or a rubber to correct mistakes with a pencil?Tim Holloway wrote:. . . American and British English are very much mutually intelligible.
My brother in law once had to ask me to translate Taggart from Glaswegian to English for him. He didn't find it, “close to,” but totally unintelligible. I one stopped at a pub in a little village ten miles east of Taunton and couldn't understand the local accent.. . . Scots English . . . close to unintelligible by non-Scots. . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
Really? What happens if we have American visitors and I offer them faggots to eat? Or a rubber to correct mistakes with a pencil?Tim Holloway wrote:. . . American and British English are very much mutually intelligible.
My brother in law once had to ask me to translate Taggart from Glaswegian to English for him. He didn't find it, “close to,” but totally unintelligible. I one stopped at a pub in a little village ten miles east of Taunton and couldn't understand the local accent.. . . Scots English . . . close to unintelligible by non-Scots. . . .
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Which of those two differences do you think is more dangerous? How do you get 37 shots out of a six‑shooter?Tim Holloway wrote:. . . Or that the "pavement" is the "sidewalk" . . . the American constabulary doesn't say "sunshine", they fire 37 warning shots through the back of your head.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:How do you get 37 shots out of a six‑shooter?
Not looking good. I think this might be the end. Wait! Is that a tiny ad?
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