MadmoiZelle speaks English

[Béré]

i was thinking about organising a contest "Best Boyfriend Ever" but mine would certainly loose, he's way too lazy !
But I love him anyway !

[Alecto]

My Literature teacher, who is on the wrong side of the force (she is American) said that I have a nice British accent, yeepee!

[Tracy Jacks]

Bringing this topic back from the dead !

My handsome english teacher gave us back our last test today. We had to write an article for the NY Times, about a movie we saw and studied for two weeks.

I was damn sure I had failed this test, it wasn't finished yet when the bell rang at the end of the hour, and what I'd written looked a bit too scolar to me.
But guess what ? I got 20/20. GOD. What's more, at the end of my article I signed with a fake name, but he wrote under it "Nooo ! I know who you are, you're Tracy Jacks and you write very well ! CONGRATULATONS ! ... once again"
Awwww yeaaaah.? Those words are so sweet to me, sir.

[Iron Maven]

I'm so proud of myself today, I had to take an oral exam yesterday and I thought I would totally fail cause there was this book we had to read/study, and there were so many details, dates and everything to memorize, I thought I would forget everything. And NO, I passed it and the teacher also told me I was the first person to succeed the exam that day! That made my week, and gave me motivation to study the following exams

[Alecto]

I met up with one of my colleagues from last year, her husband and her nice daughter. I also met the boyfriend.

And god, he was impossible to understand! I felt so dumb asking him to repeat all the time... His excuse being "sorry, I am a Londoner"... that's no excuse!

I miss talking English all the time.

[Foraday]

I surely will go in London with my best friend, in two weeks at least ! My journey seems less screwed up after this good news.

[Ptite-Curgette]

Posté par NobodyKnows

I surely will go in London with my best friend, in two weeks at least ! My journey seems less screwed up after this good news.

You are lucky!

I'm so nervous...My results of nurse's competition are still too faaaaaaaaaar (sorry for my bad english:arrow

[Lenn]

Posté par NobodyKnows

I surely will go in London with my best friend, in two weeks at least ! My journey seems less screwed up after this good news.

Luckyyy! I have to wait till August to go back, and I won't even be able to stay that long !
Have fun, there are so many things to do in London! How long are you gonna stay there?

Anyway, I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on this topic ^^

[Hodor]

Hi girls
My english is going poorer every day... I miss school only for my english lessons...
And even if I write 90% of my mails in english at work, when the phone rings and it's a person abroad, I am completely lost, searching my words. it's very sad.

[SuzeDream]

I've just hear that, during the six first months of my 1st "Post-bac-year", I'll only have 26 hours of english ! And that's all for all my studies ! (In architecture ) :boxed: As I'm in European Section since 4 years, i think it's pity because i will certainly lose all my knowledges...

[juulietta]

Well I don't think that school is the only way to learn english. I've got a friend who has been living in the USA for almost his all life and trying to speak like him is the bestest way for me to learn. I also watch movies and shows in english and that's actually the coolest (and efficient) way to learn as well Even if i sometimes miss my english though.

EDIT : Sorry I don't really pay attention to my spelling so I (may) have done some mistakes!

[Caliodë]

Posté par juulietta

Well I don't think that school is the only way to learn english. I've got a friend who has been living in the USA for almost his all life and trying to speak like him is the bestest way for me to learn. I also watch movies and shows in english and that's actually the coolest (and efficient) way to learn as well Even if i sometimes miss my english though.

EDIT : Sorry I don't really pay attention to my spelling so I (may) have done some mistakes!

I agree with you. I've learned more with Criminal Mind and Ally Macbeal in English with english subtitles than with my english teacher last year. I learned vocabulary and some really used sentences and it helps to be used to some grammatical points. However, we need some grammatical bases at the begining that movies can't give.

[SuzeDream]

Yes, i agree that there are many ways to learn english, but as Caliodë said, lessons are better to learn grammatical points !

[Béré]

I would really love to improve my english by finding english or americans friends (anyone who's native language is english in fact), but I don't know how to do. I don't know where to find them, and I'm so shy anyway.
I guess that's the kind of friends you find without looking for them, right ?

[Patsy Voldedust]

You can subscribe in an english/american forum about something you like, so you'll make friends !

[juulietta]

And maybe you actually know some people who're english speaker but you just don't know it yet.

[Yana]

I know, I absolutely know how to spell "necklace", but no matter how hard I try, I always start to write it "neckless". There's some subconscious shit going on here !

[Pin-up Colada]

Posté par Yana

I know, I absolutely know how to spell "necklace", but no matter how hard I try, I always start to write it "neckless". There's some subconscious shit going on here !

Well let's see, with a necklace, people see less of your neck! So I think we should change the writing of this word! Who's voluteer to send a request to Obama, Elizabeth and all other countries in the world???

[Ithurielle]

Posté par Béré

I would really love to improve my english by finding english or americans friends (anyone who's native language is english in fact), but I don't know how to do. I don't know where to find them, and I'm so shy anyway.
I guess that's the kind of friends you find without looking for them, right ?

Google is your friend! You'll find literally tonnes of websites where you can find penpals and exchange friends. I use Interpals, which I find pretty good as you can decide whether you want to find someone who lives nearby and with whom you can meet, or you can just stick to the Internet, through Skype or MSN, or even simply emails and letters.

Posté par Yana

I know, I absolutely know how to spell "necklace", but no matter how hard I try, I always start to write it "neckless". There's some subconscious shit going on here !

Omg, I do that all the time! Whether it's in English or in French, it's like my brain just doesn't want to acknowledge the existence of spelling… I wrote "anfin" instead of "enfin" yesterday, and I keep writing crap like that. I even started to spell "selling" instead of "Céline" (wtf?!) before realising that it was definitely not the right word at all!

[Velikanova]

Because I've been studying english for three years now, I regularly meet some difficulties to write correctly in french. I've always be very good at spelling, but now, I always have doubts with some words: whether I should write them with two "n" or not, I keep being confused with the english spelling... "annoncer" for exemple.

Well, I don't know if there are a lot of Mad coming here but I would be glad to chat in english with any of them : I'm going to a theater school next year and I won't practice english as much as I did, and I will loose all what I gained with a lot of efforts.
I'm going to continue my english readings but I know that it won't be enough.