Language exchange thread

Here you can ask for help from other site members in learning their language and about their culture. Personally I've always regretted not taking my schoolboy French and German further, and am quite embarrassed to be grouped with some of my wilfully monoglot compatriots who sincerely believe everyone should speak English.

So, if you want help with your English or help with learning a language not your own, please drop us a line in here. Especially useful might be language fundamentals such as subject-verb-object order and common verbs, as well as idioms, proverbs, colloquialisms and slang and quotes from literature, for those who are more advanced.

Just to add, I think we could also include discussion of dialects here, of English and any other languages.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Here you can ask for help from other site members in learning their language and about their culture. Personally I've always regretted not taking my schoolboy French and German further, and am quite embarrassed to be grouped with some of my wilfully monoglot compatriots who sincerely believe everyone should speak English.

So, if you want he ...[text shortened]... proverbs, colloquialisms and slang and quotes from literature, for those who are more advanced.

Some things I learnt today:

Un/le dépanneur (convenience store) is familiar to me from trips to Montreal, but I didn't know it means 'repair person' in France. It comes from the verb dépanner, "to help out of difficulty".

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Please count me in, if I can be of any help. 🙂

(Incidentally, the American spelling is willfully.)

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Please count me in, if I can be of any help. 🙂

(Incidentally, the American spelling is willfully.)

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Here you can ask for help from other site members in learning their language and about their culture. Personally I've always regretted not taking my schoolboy French and German further, and am quite embarrassed to be grouped with some of my wilfully monoglot compatriots who sincerely believe everyone should speak English.

So, if you want help ...[text shortened]... oms, proverbs, colloquialisms and slang and quotes from literature, for those who are more advanced.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
"Here you can ask for help from other site members in learning their language and about their culture..."
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Sweden and the UK. Thanks, NER, for an innovative thread.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Would you like to run through the Swedish alpabet and diacritics, GB? Only need do letters that are pronounced differently than in English.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Rather learn more about their "... idioms, proverbs, colloquialisms and slang and quotes from literature, for those who are more advanced."

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
If you've got something specific in mind about the UK, let me know.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Which state are you from, Andy? Does it have a distinct culture compared to others in the US?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
You decide,,,,

Originally posted by HandyAndy
I'm in Rhode Island, one of the original 13 colonies. Just imagine how great England would be today if they hadn't let all of this slip away.

What with wall-to-wall social media and instant communication, culture in different parts of the U.S. is pretty much homogenized these days. Except for Texas.