Learning English (version of English) Puns

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I first began to learn English at school at 11 years old but until 20,I can't speak,read books and can't watch series and movies. Nowadays I am watching The Big Bang Theory with English subtitles and reading Harry Potter in English for improve my English skills. My reading is still slow but I'm sure that it will be better.

So,Non-native speakers of English How did you learn to speak English well?

US English seems more popular in Mexico, and Kapan etc, but what English do you learn in the country you grew up in?

Of course there are the "obvious" mistakes like using the wrong cases and verb conjugations. However, those are mostly just a matter of memorization and practice. I can't make that information "stick" with one post. Instead, this write-up will be dedicated to more minor quirky mistakes that you may not even be aware of and can fix right away in your German communication. Feel free to suggest more:

SYNTAX

• Using "es" as an equivalent of "it" for all nouns. This is wrong! You can only use "es" when the noun it refers to is a neuter noun in the nominative or accusative case or when the meaning is abstract, like in the sentences "Es regnet" and "Es sind noch 10 Kilometer bis nach Berlin." To refer to concrete nouns like a table, a wall, milk, etc., you know... stuff, you have to use "er" and "sie" and all of their declensions. In many cases, it also works to use the articles (der, das, die) and their respective declensions as pronouns. The difference between using "er" and using "der" is full of nuances that are beyond the scope of this post. The point is that the genders and cases have to be reflected. "Es" is not a catch-all solution like "it" is in English. I suspect the reason why English speakers mess this up is because they initially learn that "er" and "sie" are equivalents of "he" and "she." This is extremely misleading! "Er" and "sie" are simply pronouns for nouns with a masculine or feminine Genus, respectively.

• Inverting the subject and verb in situations where that rule does not apply. Yes, it's correct to say "Heute erzähle ich eine Geschichte." But it is not correct to say, "Ich habe etwas gemalt und findet mein Vater es schön." The reason is because coordinating conjunctions (und, aber, oder, denn, sondern), as their name would imply, are merely coordinating elements that do not modify anything. This means that they are not considered to occupy any grammatical position in the sentence. Putting a conjugated verb directly after them is incorrect because that means this conjugated verb is occupying the first position instead of the second position where it belongs. The rule is not really about inverting anything. It's actually about the conjugated verb being placed in the second grammatical position. So you can still use a conjugated verb before its subject and after "und", for example, but not directly after the "und". Example: "Ich habe etwas gemalt und mein Gemälde findet mein Vater schön." In that example, "findet" is

I got a key for this website as part of a Humble Bundle I purchased a while ago. I just realized I still had it, and it was supposed to expire on March 30th, 2020. I tried out one of the other keys (Japanese, the language I'm actually learning) and it still works. I figured I'd give away the "Learn English" course, as I don't need it!

If you want it, post something that you found hilarious about learning English and I'll pick an especially funny post later today or tomorrow!

You can sometimes tell what language someone speaks if their translations are bad because of the grammar being even just slightly different. It would be interesting  to see how the same English sentence would look with different bad translations in different conlangs.

Take this sentence: "Hello. I am Joe Smith. I am tired. I like eating breakfast at 6:45 am."

Comment the most accurate translation of it in your conlang, and then write how a speaker of your conlang that is just learning English might translate it. Also add what it would sound like with their accent (in IPA). You can also use a different English sentence if you like.

###Here's an example of Mandarin:

English sentence: "Hello. I am Joe Smith. I am tired. I like eating breakfast at 6:45 am."

Mandarin translation: "你好。我是史乔。我累。我早上六点四十五分喜欢吃早饭。/ni˧˩˥ xao˧˩˥ uo˧˩˥ ʂɻ̍˥˩ ʂɻ̍˧˩˥ tʰɕio˩˥ uo˧˩˥ lei˥˩ uo˧˩˥ tzao˧˩˥ ʂaŋ˥˩ liou˥˩ tian˧˩˥ sɹ̍˥ ʂɻ̍˧˩˥ u˧˩˥ ɕi˧˩˥ xuan˥ tʰʂɻ̍˥ tzao˧˩˥ fan˥˩/"

Bad translation from Mandarin to English: Hello. I am Smith Joe. I tired. I morning six hour forty five minute like eat morning meal. /hɛlou ai ɛm smis tʐou ai tʰaiɹt ai moɹniŋ sikʰs aoɹ foɹtʰi faif minutʰ laikʰ itʰ moɹniŋ milə/

Forgive me if I'm bad at Chinese.

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This study is being completed by researchers at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. The purpose is to establish concurrent validity and test-retest reliability for a measure of social-emotional learning in children in Kindergarten to Eighth Grade. Feel free to share out the link to other people you know. Participants who agree will be contacted approximately 2 weeks later to complete part of the survey again to aid in establishing test-retest reliability. Those who complete both portions of the survey will be entered in a drawing for one of three $25 stipends. Please feel free to contact the researchers with any questions or concerns at Gorniak@uhcl.edu. Please feel free to share this via your own social media with this description attached. Thank you for your time!