What a pity! :)

Wanna talk about it? (c) :-D

One of the most frightening phrases for a man! :)))Judging from my own experience. The second place goes to " Do you love me?", the third place goes to "tell me what you're thinking about!"

Well, that's discussed...

I have a question for Mila. Why do the British seem to hate Gordon Brown and his wife?

Hi to all!
What a discussion I have missed :- (( (
Preferences, pshycology, philosophy, secrecy!!!
James Bond is resting....
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to Inna
I do not know much about preferences of British people and their attitude towards the PM.
However there are some issues and questions that might not have yet found the most grateful and respectful audience. The philosophical question is :" What is going on???"...Unfortunately the question has not been answered yet and the public is not quite clear about the situation at home and abroad...
But is it an easy job to do - to serve the public?
Now this question is open to all interested...

Авиадиспетчер
'I don't have no time for no monkey business
Dee do de de dee do de de'
*********
And just another one, good one! :-))
We don't need no education...

From scholar essays:
На берегу реки доярка доила корову, а в воде отражалось все наоборот.
the more here:
http://www.hotinfo.ru/humor/?c ...
http://mina.ru/funny/school/?39

Hi MSL!
Nice collection.
Here is what american students are "good at":
"The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant."
The rest is here:
http://writingenglish.wordpres ...

and another one...
"The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.”
http://www.goodquotes.info/fun ...
O tempera, O mores! :-)))

"The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant."

Classics is whenever and wherever classics:

"Выбирайте слова, маркиз. Самолично налопал собственного командира,
когда он тащил ее по коридору в кабинет. Хильда была малость дернувши, но
очень сосредоточенна и серьезна, comme un chien qui pisse dans un violon*.

* Как собачка, которая целится писать в скрипку (фр.).
(с) Л. Соболев "Капитальный ремонт"

:-D

Don't need to go that far:-)))
I was making notes today for a student, she can't write. The lesson was about designing argument :-))) a kind of religious philosophy... whether God is a disigner of the Universe or Somebody had designed the God to be a designer of the Universe ..????

There is a thread very much about it from the left. Those guys are keen on issues like that. I have no idea.
Or you want me to do the lesson's exercise?

Oh, no MSL!
I don't wish you anything that crazy..I just mentioned it to say that funny things are all around you, just keep your eyes and ears open :-)))

How shall we translate then...

"мракобесие"-obscurantism, heresy?

I like you teach students to process the information. When I was at school we'd been mainly taught to memorise and recall (though I was a bad pupil due to poor studiousness).

It's not me who are to teach you how to translate :-)))

Well, Mila. Thanks for chatting. Got to go for now. Have a nice time. See you

The point is that when you teach somebody you actually learn yourself at the same time:-)))it's a kind of non-stop process of absorbing, processing and producing...and nobody knows what kind of product it might be eventually:-)))That's the tricky bit...One can say, that you can predict or expect some sort of reply...and the truth is that 90% -yes and still 10% is ...not/unpredictable...

to you too.
Bye.

cu L8er alligator :)

Good afternoon!
I not badly translate the text, and to speak, there are no experts. Here there is such capability?

to Игорь69
Hi!
Welcome to our English Club!
If you can translate and speak a little you are in the right place. Just post your messages and don't be afraid :-)))
Good luck!

Hi everyone!
Sorry for my silence, just arrived from flight.

2 Игорь69
Молодец. Не побоялся высказаться по-английски. Это уже даже больше чем полдела. Я серьезно. Слова нормальные, понятные. Но нужно поработать над грамматикой, чтобы тебя однозначно поняли. Изложи ее по-русски и мы подумаем, что из английской грамматики туда нужно добавить, чтобы она звучала однозначно.

она - фраза звучала однозначно, сорри, устал

Morning everyone!
MSL - good attempt to help out Igor69!
However, English is the language that should be used here :-))

A detour with numbers:-)))

"UK's top 10 pothole hotspots:

1 Surrey (1998)
2 Hampshire (892)
3 Kent (857)
4 Hertfordshire (855)
5 Oxfordshire (796)
6 Lancashire (733)
7 Essex (734)
8 West Sussex (680)
9 Buckinghamshire (678)
10 Gloucestershire (655)"

Do you know any statistics on roads' condition in Russia?

Hi, Mila!
An anecdote to your previous post.
A foreigner fell into an opened hatch. He asked the arrived rescue rangers: Why didn't you mark the hole? The answer was: Haven't you seen a boundary post crossing the border?

Hi, MSL
:-D

2 Mila
The point is that when you teach somebody you actually learn yourself at the same time:-)))

This is true. When you are teaching you are concentrating on an issue and arranging your knowledge deeper.
Объяснял, объяснял, аж сам понял, а они всё никак. (с)

Объяснял, объяснял, аж сам понял, а они всё никак.

It's happened to me once when I used to teach students - future officers and pilots:-) I believe that I have mentioned that already somewhere...
Another good point about teaching is that you have no right to be old-fashioned, an old bat: you need to be always on the ball: to know what is going on around all the time and that is what I would probably call a "perpetum mobile":-)))Listen and learn and of course, my favourite, never say never:-)

It's happened to me once when I used to teach students - future officers and pilots

And what did they fail to understand?

Grammar bits...the difference between Present Simple, Present Continuous and Present Perfect:-)))

Yes, it seems to be not easy to catch. But in fact it's as simple as eggs. It's just necessary to use the right method. I had either experienced difficulties in understanding English grammar in our education system. It teaches neither grammar nor language, but the language of grammar. Normal individual unable to stand that brain blowing nightmare. And as for personally me, I felt a ground under my leg only after kind teacher advised me to try "English grammar in use" by Raymond Murphy. Nothing superfluous. Just read simple and clear explanations and do understandable exercises. It's not an advertising. It's really helped me A LOT! I don't know who is an author but I want to say many thanks to teacher who recommended me this course.

By the way at that time the Present Simple was named as Indefinite and this "confusion" produced a lot of misunderstanding...Later in my teaching carrer I had to use the terms as Present Always, Present Now and Present Result...This was against all odds and methods of teaching but surprisingly the students were a bit confident in all this tense "boiling pot":-)))

I say: the language of grammar :-)))

Well agree. Murphy is good and dead easy to work with.

One of my dreaded University course was "Theory of Grammar"...never have met more deliberately complicated and useless...

It seems to me or standard school course represents "Theory of Grammar" for beginners :-)))

Correction: It seems to me OUR standard school course...

Unfortunately for ordinary pupils English is a kind of "ENIGMA" plus teaching is sometimes not good enough..To teach a foreign language you need, of course, to know the way it works in everyday situation and be all eyes and ears:-))
However nowadays with all this HI-FI it's much easier to have access to news, films etc as to compare with the options available 30 years ago or earlier ...

http://www.moskva.fm/artist/ma ...
:-)

:-)))
It's a Different world today...
Thanks!

Ok Mila, thanks for chatting. See you!

What a Wonderful World
That's Ok, Mila, that's Ok :-)

See you, thanks to you too.
Good luck!

Hi, friends!
What a cuirious branch exists on our ordinary forum! Let me join it) I guess I should really "brush it" (meaning own English, of cause)))!

So, do U, my new friends, offer to discuss Music? Extermely agree, because different avia-topics nowdays are quite common and not so attractive as Music. Moreover, last one should never become odd!
I`ve got a ?-tion, by the way... While listening Mr. Louis at the link upwards, I`d marked his pronounce as not-american (or am I wrong?). Does this fact mean that nowdays american pronounce had (or "has"-?, dot`t clear to your submissive servant) become urgly in such a grade, that it`s impossible to sing in so charming and clear manner? Remember, Armstrong-the-Great was of old kind days well-breded...

Hi, Bazar_off!
Armsrong's singing is really well recognizable. I'm not sure about your question, but both variants of spoken native English - American and core British are relatively hard for me to recognize. The best case when a speaker isn't native (Germans are brilliant! :-). In other respects - the more I listen one variant - the more unclear appears another :-)

Hi everyone!
Bazar_off! Welcome to our forum, although sometimes we call it English Club:-))
We discuss what is inetersting to us and perhaps to other readers. Music is one of the topics. Not quite got you re :Armstrong, though. Why do you think that his pronunciation is not American? I was always pretty sure that his Voice and tembre as well as his Language are unique and typically American "variant" of English. Nowadays the pop stars mostly shout or rap or talk but very few are actually singing...Or I am wrong:-)))The lyrics is different! But MSL already posted before that the World has changed...so there we are..
MSL
The most confusing and amusing sound of English is Indian:-)))) Fortunately being long enough in the country I now can recognise the difference between a Lancashire and a Manchester man, let alone a Scotsman or an Irishman...Only after a glass of scotch or a pint of Guinness I probably would say that there is no difference at all :-)))