First Certificate

**Caius** · 09-10-2007, 20:46

Hello guys,

First, this is a half thank you! In this site, I leant English. Yes, I always annoyed with the meaning of words, and I've noticed that I never said Thanks! for it.

Second, my parents decided i should go to an english academy, just to learn it. In all this time, which is 6 months and a some days, I've leant english.
Now, time have come. Its the time to test my english skills and having the First Certificate.

So, what do u know about it? Im just curious what im going to test.

Cheers

The most annoying pseudo Roman Diplomat ever

Caius

**Vuk** · 09-10-2007, 21:02

lol, gl.

Vuk

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 09-10-2007, 21:57

I would have to say that English is a very important language for the world traveler and I wish you the best of luck on your exams!

Any English you learned here may have been a bit slang-based for formal education, but as a non-native speaker that's one of the hardest parts of a language to learn through formal education!

**woad&fangs** · 09-10-2007, 22:17

Originally Posted by Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca edited by woad&fangs

Hello guys,

First, this is a half thank you! On this site, I learned English. Yes, I was always annoyed with the meaning of words, and I've noticed that I never said thanks for it.

Second, my parents decided I should go to an english academy, just to learn it. In all this time, which is 6 months and some days, I've leaed english.
Now, the time has come. Its the time to test my english skills and take the First Certificate.

So, what do you know about it? I'm just curious what I'm going to test.

Cheers

The most annoying pseudo Roman Diplomat ever

Caius

Fixed it for you. Good luck taking the test. English is a hard language to learn.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 09-11-2007, 02:32

Originally Posted by woad&fangs

Fixed it for you. Good luck taking the test. English is a hard language to learn.

I've actually heard that a lot of it is very easy for foreigners to learn in many ways, though tough in a couple, but I don't know about that, I've never had to learn English as a foreign language.

**seireikhaan** · 09-11-2007, 02:38

Good luck! Not sure quite what its like for a foreigner to learn English, seeing as I learned it native. But if its as difficult as learning French was for me, then I feel sorry for all the people who've had to learn it(I had a terrible time w/ French, though I think my teacher might have had something to do w/ it, she was awful and my high school should have fired her a long time ago). If you can learn it in a few years, I'd like to use you as proof to my school system that we don't need to take it for 15 years.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 09-11-2007, 03:36

Originally Posted by greaterkhaan

Good luck! Not sure quite what its like for a foreigner to learn English, seeing as I learned it native. But if its as difficult as learning French was for me, then I feel sorry for all the people who've had to learn it(I had a terrible time w/ French, though I think my teacher might have had something to do w/ it, she was awful and my high school should have fired her a long time ago). If you can learn it in a few years, I'd like to use you as proof to my school system that we don't need to take it for 15 years.

I think immersion is the only way to really learn a language well. I never did all that well in Spanish, especially when it came to speaking, but during my time in Germany I got to a point where I could understand and express pretty much everything in German, and that was only in ten and a half months!

If you want to learn a language live in a country where it is the primary language and avoid speaking any other language and ask LOTS of questions.

**Sigurd** · 09-11-2007, 12:18

[edit]: Rehash of Uesugi's post

The first and foremost trick to learn another language is; go were they are speaking it.
I was rubbish at English when I finished school.

For GvI this site has probably helped much... I remember him as a new patron and there was not much more to his posts than single words or simple phrases.

For me it was my many visits to Scotland in the mid 90’s that gave me an English vocabulary and later my studies in Australia that helped putting this vocabulary in writing.
I did grow a dependency on the Word editor for grammar and spelling which gave me trouble on my final exams. However, my other work was first class and I got decent grades after all. The chat room has helped me writing English without the aid of Word and its spelling check.

Learning a second or third language is hard, especially if you have to rely on the classroom as the primary source.
The best way is to put yourself in the situation where the only way to communicate with your surroundings is via this language.