English as a Second Language

[Anonymous No.13473908]

How can I post confidently on the american anime image board? I learned grammar and writing english essays for 12 years and it didn't really help.

[Anonymous No.13473942]

>>13473908
the level of discourse here is such that you could be a gorilla selecting random words on a touch screen and you'd pass

[Anonymous No.13473949]

i love you so much anon

[Anonymous No.13473950]

If someone gets angry at your English they are probably an asshole American. Here's a secret Americans use bad grammar and bad spelling.

here is a map of people who spell "aluminium" a-l-u-m-i-n-u-m.

[Anonymous No.13473959]

[Anonymous No.13473983]

>>13473950
hating Americans is the surest sign of a pseud in existence. For one thing you are all literally Americans now, you are just the equivalent of the outskirts of the Roman provinces, the old culture that you had is laughably dead, and you have nothing at all to commend to your countries except a few percentage points in random measures of quality of living(and you really don't want to look at the reasons for that because it might be illegal to say them in your shithole) and old art that nobody even understands or values anymore, the aristocratic culture that produced it being long dead. For another, America had even in the old days its own merits that many recognized and mindlessly hating on it is in a turn of cosmic irony a product of the post-Pax-american understanding of the world, your very hatred of America is American, specifically the upper New England crust condemnation of those they saw as beneath them. God you're fucking insufferable retards.

[Anonymous No.13473985]

>>13473908
ur a retatd

[Anonymous No.13474003]

>>13473983
ooo he mad mad

[Anonymous No.13474063]

>>13473908
Don't worry people like ESLs, the only way to get better is to practice. Your OP post seems fine.

[Anonymous No.13474304]

>>13473950
The grammatical errors that native speakers make are different than the ones ESLs make however. For example I sometimes mix formal and informal words and it can make me sound very unnatural or robotic.

[Anonymous No.13474420]

>>13473959
Based Burmese. Nuclear power by 2025.

[Anonymous No.13474439]

>>13473908
I wonder how Anglophones feel having to read broken English on the internet every single day. When I read bad Spanish syntax, I die a little

[Anonymous No.13474459]

What would you need to improve your confidence?
Your English is miles ahead of most of the ESLs here already anyway.

[Anonymous No.13474513]

>>13474439
>When I read bad Spanish syntax, I die a little
I don't, because at least they're trying (even though it's very hard) and that makes me happy. Please don't judge them too harshly.

No los juzgues demasiado, al menos estan intentando aprender nuestro (difícil) idioma.

[Anonymous No.13474536]

I only get irritated when ESLs think that they’re indistinguishable from native speakers

[Anonymous No.13474540]

>>13474459
Yeah, OP's english seems to be just fine.

[Anonymous No.13474542]

>>13474536
This

[Anonymous No.13474543]

>>13474439
I feel similar towards german.

[Anonymous No.13474567]

>>13473908
just copy and paste posts from other threads. no one will know the difference. if you're feeling adventurous, add common phrases such "based" or "btfo" or various epithets to fit in

[Anonymous No.13474580]

>>13473983
This.

[Anonymous No.13474599]

>>13474513
>Difícil
Pero tu k dise chaval? Si a los 3 años ya hablaba Espanyol perfecto lmao

[Anonymous No.13475783]

>>13474536
I've met ESLs (Kenyans, Indians) who get legitimately angry at me for stating that I, a native English speaker, know English better than them. These are people who can't even string together a single grammatically correct sentence. What fucking thought process is going on in their heads, if any?

[Anonymous No.13475889]

>>13473908
You don't really need to get better at English. You can just speak however you want, and if someone says anything about it, you can call them an ignorant monolingual Anglo. If that doesn't work, pull the race card.

[Anonymous No.13476244]

>>13475889
We don't normally do that because Americans are the only ones who care so much about race and do things like 'pull the race card' as you say. I've personally never even heard anyone talk about race where I live, it's not discussed here.

[Anonymous No.13476575]

>>13473908
>I learned grammar and writing english essays for 12 years
>ESL
Wait, what the fuck? I'm surprised nobody noticed this statement.
I'm pretty sure you're American and also a nigger. Perhaps get into academic grammar instead of kiddie K-12 so you can become a good writer.

ESL is just a category; if you master the English language, you will stop being an ESL.

[Anonymous No.13476611]

>>13474543
Bitte, sein Sie nett. Ich weiß, dass mein Deutsch nicht toll ist, aber ich versuche, es zu verbessern.

[Anonymous No.13476716]

>>13473908
by not giving a fuck.

[Anonymous No.13476777]

>>13476244
go back to the reddit

[Anonymous No.13478082]

>>13474439
I hate how it's totally acceptable for immigrants to speak dogshit English. It drives me nuts.

[Anonymous No.13478094]

>>13473983
cringe

[Anonymous No.13478154]

>>13478082
>tfw only one in my family that can write and speak english
>we've been here for 20 years but my parents still only write in moonrunes and know <200 english words

[Anonymous No.13478181]

>>13478082
neuroplasticity goes to basically zero when you become 15 years old. you can't blame them, it's biologically hard for them to rewire their neurons to satisfy your whims.

[Anonymous No.13478205]

>>13473908
Reading and mimicking speech did it for me. The only problem is that I'm too autistic even when I'm speaking in my native language.

[Anonymous No.13478208]

>>13473908
Just believe.

[Anonymous No.13478213]

>>13478181
That’s Bs

[Anonymous No.13478354]

>>13478154
Is american life that easy?

[Anonymous No.13479453]

>>13478208
fucking hell

[Anonymous No.13479466]

>>13478181
Bull dhit. They can improve their accent if they try they just don't give a duck

[Anonymous No.13479476]

>>13478208
This guy needs to be shot

[Anonymous No.13479481]

>>13476575
Are you a retard?

[Anonymous No.13479483]

>>13475889
based