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And to whoever said Canadians don't identify with "Canucks," we do have a hockey team named that.
----For many South Africans and Canadians, English is not their first language. For many Filipinos, Nigerians, and Indians (among others...Ghanaians, Trinidadians, etc), English is their first language.----About 23% of Canadians are French, the rest are English, let's not throw the word "many" around like it's meaningless here people. Why are we still talking about this?
(Stolen from Wikipedia)Rank Country First language 1 United States 214,809,000[22] 2 United Kingdom 58,200,000[23] 3 Canada 18,232,195[24] 4 Australia 15,581,334[25] 5 Ireland 4,400,000[26] 6 South Africa 3,673,203[27] 7 New Zealand 3,500,000+ (approx.)[28] 8 Philippines 3,427,000[9] 9 Jamaica 2,600,000+ (approx.)[29] 10 Trinidad and Tobago 1,145,000
In America Mexican ingredients are the most sold in our country which should tell you something. Where are the tacos, burritos, nachos.. etc?
OK, fair enough. So go make PowerPoints for all those countries too, then. Sheesh :D
People slam wikipedia all the time, but it comes up trumps a lot of the time after a bit of research. most bullshit gets weeded out...(This was a response to a post that has now disappeared. I don't talk to myself. At least I don't admit to it.)
Quote from: conorsean on March 16, 2011, 03:54:00 PMOK, fair enough. So go make PowerPoints for all those countries too, then. Sheesh :DIt's nice that someone does it.These types of PPTs help in adult classes too. India is a big trade partner here, as are many other countries where English is not a first language. I'll use some of these PPTs next week. You've saved me a buttload of work. Thanks.As an aside, I always mention that the Island folk don't really speak English when they are cavorting amongst themselves. They have some special language, like the South Afrikkans have. These days I'm training CS folk to understand Finnish-English (Finglish).
Quote from: conorsean on April 05, 2011, 11:44:44 PMPeople slam wikipedia all the time, but it comes up trumps a lot of the time after a bit of research. most bullshit gets weeded out...(This was a response to a post that has now disappeared. I don't talk to myself. At least I don't admit to it.) Hahaha sorry I removed it because I somehow wrote my response in the grey quote box... I'm useless I know. Then I just gave up. But yes... I agree!
Um, as an American we do not just eat pizza, hamburgers, clam chowder (yuck) and chicken. We are the melting pot of the world; Americans eat all kinds of ethnic food. So, the question what do Americans eat? A little of everything from around the world. A lot of Koreans have told me that when they think of America they think of hamburgers and fries and that's all they think American's eat; which is false. They are shocked to find out we eat all sorts of different foods. In America Mexican ingredients are the most sold in our country which should tell you something. Where are the tacos, burritos, nachos.. etc? :/
Quote from: GEK on April 06, 2011, 12:13:21 AMQuote from: conorsean on March 16, 2011, 03:54:00 PMOK, fair enough. So go make PowerPoints for all those countries too, then. Sheesh :DIt's nice that someone does it.These types of PPTs help in adult classes too. India is a big trade partner here, as are many other countries where English is not a first language. I'll use some of these PPTs next week. You've saved me a buttload of work. Thanks.As an aside, I always mention that the Island folk don't really speak English when they are cavorting amongst themselves. They have some special language, like the South Afrikkans have. These days I'm training CS folk to understand Finnish-English (Finglish). Ah Jesus, not you again. There's no such thing as 'South Afrikkans' as you would know if you had traveled outside the perimeter. I'm glad someone made you a ppt. Now get back in yer box and heed the warning we were both given. You wanna say something? I'll give you my home address and phone number. But we were told to keep it off this board so I don't want to see you quoting me again. Got that?
About South Africa....the 'rainbow nation' Most Indians in South Africa (about 2 million) have been there for many generations and only ever speak English. Most don't even know any Indian languages... So, they're native language speakers as far as being educated within a British system and only speaking English as a home language.Most Afrikaans speakers speak native level English.Most university educated people in SA have native level English ability,whatever their background...We all have variations in our accent and pronunciation though.(sometimes depending on province,much like in the Uk and USA where accents vary).We also study standard British spelling and pronunciation at school, which sometimes confuses the kids if they've had an American or Canadian teacher...
