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RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - Fluffyball - 02-26-2015
Damn, Cashew. You did a short essay right now. xD
However, yes. It applies to all launguages, as there are "literature" language and "common" language. I was six months ago to the Northern Ireland and there was a great difference in Church speech and folk speech out there, not to mention a way different prounouncation of the word "cow", which is spelt like Japanese "koi".
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - Derkylos - 02-26-2015
While I speak/type lazy English, I know how English is "supposed" to be (and have dabbled extensively in the teaching thereof).
As such, I find the internet a wonderful place to watch people attempt to use the language, and catalog the many and interesting mistakes.
And this place is even better suited for such a pastime, as there are so many mistakes in the walls of text in the mod, too...
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - Fluffyball - 02-27-2015
Everyone make mistakes. Sometimes, while writing something in haste (not to be confused with Haste), I re-read what I wrote I'm all like "What the HELL, man?!"
My biggest problem is with words like "news", because I'm not sure if I should use either "is" or "are".
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - Derkylos - 02-27-2015
Not talking about typos, more about things like "then" replacing "than" ("I make more mistakes then you" being incorrect). Mistakes which seem to be commonplace amongst native speakers of certain languages learning English as a second one, as if they are trying to transfer their native language onto the learned one (no doubt I suffer from this when using languages I have learned, still, an interesting phenomenon, tho).
As for "news", the news is something (mostly boring, in my opinion), whereas news stories are (ie: "news" is singular, unless used as an adjective
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RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - Yber - 02-27-2015
During the past 4 years I went from barely reading english to actually being able to speak it.
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - Juan_Arquero - 02-27-2015
I've been an expert on the English language for over three decades -- long before Freelancer was created. However, playing on Spanish language servers, vanilla and later Discovery, has improved my abilities to read and write Spanish (I grew up speaking it). I've also been able to practice the little Italian I know on rare occasions.
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - SnakeLancerHaven - 02-27-2015
I have to say, definitly. I found some of my old Threads from my second account "Blade" back in 2008. I was like... Omg... Please kill 8|
Comparing to now, definitly improved, but of course still having holes and stuff that I would need to improve more.
However, thanks to Skype calls and Teamspeak, talking english definitly got better too, aside typing. That's why I actually support Skype calls and Teamspeak as you do realy improve from time to time. You just have to be patient and stick to it.
Especially, Roleplaying is that thing that improved it damn brutaly. Because before this I was playing Call of Duty 4 alot, but you've seen how much it improved my english, very little. However, in Freelancer Discovery, writing Stories, Roleplaying, bringing in ideas, trials of several factions (checked my old Factions xDD had to laugh alot) got this improvement on a high level. Making a faction realy takes patience, you will fail at the beginning especially if english isn't your first language, but after these fails what you have to do is learn from it and try again, never give up.
Continue, let the Community laugh at you, laugh back at them 8|
But, try to improve it.
Now I've seen alot of newbies here that give up way too early, sometimes I understand it, because handling trolls ain't that easy at the beginning, especially if you're new to this community. But what I don't get are those, that just go all of a sudden "This Mod sucks, I hate the Devs, people don't know about good ideas, they suck, the Community sucks" after their very first trial of bringing in ideas.
You have to live with it. The point which makes you improve yourselfs is exactly in that situation. If you give up and rant on the community, you wont learn anything and you wont improve at all. If you stay, be a nice guy (and a smart one of course don't let other people use you) and I'm very sure you will come to a point where stuff will constantly evolve into an interesting position, where you yourself will have alot of fun and you will be interested in continuing all the hard work. That's what improves you.
Connecting that last text with the Topic, that's what also will improve your english, because you will have people around which you interact with, if you don't give up. If you give up, you wont even get into a situation where you could learn anything. You will have interaction, everybody is speaking english and you will get corrected by Grammar-Nazi's 8|
But in the end, you improve yourself.
Most of the things that I find interesting in here, is this. Guys, some of the english words I just don't know in my mother language, nor my second language "German". I mostly learned via interaction. As an example, somebody says "MOVE MOVE MOVE" and you see people, you know, going into a direction you make a logical conclusion that this word "move" means this, people moving and your mind automaticly pictures that scene. So in RL when somebody says "move", you automaticly have this picture infront of you and you know what it means, but you might not be able to translate it (of course "Move" was a weak example). In the end all those "scenes", those actions / pictures gets stored into your mind and you know what it means and how to use it.
Next to that, watching movies in english with subtitles was another thing that improved my english, but that's kinda getting out of topic now ^^
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - NoMe - 02-27-2015
hello
mine is a bit better. but *simple*
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - Juan_Arquero - 02-27-2015
Snake: Your comments regarding how you learned the definition of "move" reminded me of how when I visited Italy in 1989 while I was standing in line in a grocery store, I finally realized the meaning of "Scutzi" ("Excuse me" in Italian).
NoMe: Your ears or your eyes have probably been itching because you got mentioned a couple times earlier in this thread.
RE: How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills - NoMe - 02-27-2015
NoMe: Your ears or your eyes have probably been itching because you got mentioned a couple times earlier in this thread.
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without doubt! like say a french proverbe, la critique est facile
promise when i have the time, i will read completly.