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How (Not) to Speak English Like an Idiot

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How (not) to speak English

Like an Idiot 
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concisely, contemporarily

by mészáros p. dániel
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Why speak English?

  • 400+ million natives
  • 700+ million L2 (approx)
  • guy ritchie films,
  • terry pratchett books
  • and
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...also

  • is also the global lingua franca
  • the language of commerce, science, law
  • is the official language of the EU, UN, and...
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WoW

// horde, undead, outcast, originated, projectile //
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...rili troger

not to speak it
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is everybody able?

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No.

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idiots can't

http://lltf.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Test_mlat.pdf
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however...

we aren't idiots, we're just
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English is NOT Hungarian,
thus
Hungarian is NOT English.

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English = West Germanic L, + French, Spanish, Nordic influence

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Hungarian = Uralic L, + Slavic, Turkish, German influence

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How can you say...?

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macska, kEk, ember

  • cat, gat, kat, kot, kit, katt
  • blue, blue, blau, bla
  • human, umano, human, humA
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The Plight of HUNs...

we refuse to think outside of our language 
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What we say

  • Yesterday I picked up the water very quickly.
  • The church is before the court.
  • I called the Laci.
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What we should say

  • Yesterday I jumped the roof.
  • The church is in front of the court.
  • I called Laci.
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And so, we learn

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B.E., B.E. 'RP', Am.E ?

  • Hungarians think they must speak
  • Oxford\Cambridge
  • Standard American
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We will never be...

Brits, 'murricans, Aussies
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Learners should not aim for 100000000000% perfection

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However...

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decrease the trogerseg

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mistake #1

learn all the words! 
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easy fix:

http://www.vocabulary.com/
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REMEMBER

not everyone knows your shiny new words
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accent or pronunciation mistake?

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say it.

  • international
  • reliable
  • through
  • throttle
  • swimming
  • (the) wild west
  • ended
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easy fix

http://hu.forvo.com/
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mistake #2

I don't know ALL the tenses
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what you will need

  • simple tenses (present, past, future)
  • continuous tenses (present, future)
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mistake #3

can't / count / cunt
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mistake #4

he\she / him\her / his\hers
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mistake #5

songs don't make sense 
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yeah...

neither does James Joyce. Find ones you actually understand.
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I watch films in EN

but my vocab is not growin'
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rewatch. rewatch. rewatch some parts.
rewatch.
1 new word:
7 confrontations

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#6 TH- sound

ugh..
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easy fix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih55yasmR-Q
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mistake #7

rolled- R sounds
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flatten that b*tch

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mistake #8

bitch / whore / skank / cunt
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mistake #9

3rd person singular
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do this.

  • JAkob szendvicset majszol.
  • Anna minden Evben a ####-ra/re szavaz.
  • MArk babaruhAkat kEszIt szabadidejEben.
  • Berci hAzat EpIt aranybOl.
  • Szabi embereket rUg ki.
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mistake #10

translate everything 
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don't touch

  • ugyan
  • mAr, mEg
  • hiszen
  • tulajdonkEppen
  • valOban
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and don't touch

  • though
  • howeveR
  • yet*
  • notwithstanding
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mistake #11

when reading articles, take the lingo with a pinch of salt
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Final advice

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  • experiment
  • keep your eyes and ears open
  • don't keep your mouth open
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  • connect words with context
  • try not to re-enact mistakes
  • build slowly
  • build constantly

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