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L'accent? Il m'a fallu des annees comme expat et pas mal de voyages pour perdre une partie de mon accent francais. Mais je ne passe ni pour un americain, ni pour un britannique, certainement pas pour un aussie! Pas pour un quebecois non plus...

En fait l'accent n'est pas le plus important, a partir du moment ou il ne gene pas la comprehension. La syntaxe, le vocabulaire et l'intonation sont plus importantes. On ne peut pas comparer avec les acteurs, parce qu'ils ont suivi des cours particuliers de diction. Exemple: si vous avez vu Blood Diamond en VO, Leonardo di Caprio a un excellent accent afrikaner qui le rend credible. Je parie que ca lui a demande pas mal de travail...

Le probleme de niveau en anglais par rapport a nos voisins, c'est que le plus souvent les francais(e)s traduisent du francais a l'anglais dans leur tete avant de parler (ou d'ecrire). Ce qui donne souvent lieu a des phrases mal construites. Pour etre bilingue dans une langue donnee, il faut arriver a penser dans cette langue. Et ca, c'est pas facile...

Cheers

"il faut arriver a penser dans cette langue"

- Il a du en ch. Clint alors, dans firefox...

Et si on parlait en anglais sur ce topic ?

C'est pas en palabrant dans la langue de Molière que nous allons nous perfectioner en Anglais...

Ok, then go ahead Strobeson! hihi!!

Looks like you got more than you bargained for, mate!

Cheers

Yeah light our fire !
no kidding, singing my favorite songs worked out for me !
(most of you are wondering which are the ones for me huh ?! )

cheers

flying_chad a écrit :

727 a écrit :Yeah light our fire !
no kidding, singing my favorite songs worked out for me !
(most of you are wondering which are the ones for me huh ?! )

cheers

The Doors, light my fire ?

YOU'RE BLOODY DAMN RIGHT BUDDY !

But to focus on the main subject, I think it will improve one's english skills to sing a song he/she likes (by that I mean no rap !) 'cause if you dig it you're more likely to read the lyrics, searching for understanding, tripping on the rythmn, let your musician soul blossom dudes !
It will also work (although a bit less 'cause you won't have to "speak") if you listen to your favourite movies in english or a report on any subject you like

cheers

Yeah, singing is one the best way. Another one is the to being in regular touch with english speaking people, like having a girl friend. Hey flyingchad, linda will be useful . And for those who are worried about their accent, I recommend to them to learn phonetic alphabet (the stranges letters before every word in all dictionnaries) which was designed to read worldwide languages with neutral accent. Then practiced your prounonciation by reading in that alphabet. Work it, worth it and the progression is easy and quite quick. it also reminds me of an old topic which had also been written by golfcharlie, have a look at this link http://forum.aeronet-fr.org/viewtopic.p ... sc&start=0

Alright Folks, I have a little riddle for you then. Let's see who's gonna solve it first !...

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it ?

Yesss "the darkness" is the correct answer. Congratulations Flying-chad, you're very clever indeed!
Now, that's your turn to make us a riddle

flying_chad a écrit :Okay then, if this is my call.... Here we go!

Caution wake turbulence, this one is tough !

You heard me before, yet you hear me again. Then I die, 'til you call me again. What am I?

This is dead easy, but I will let people find the answer

flying_chad a écrit :Okay then, if this is my call.... Here we go!

Caution wake turbulence, this one is tough !

You heard me before, yet you hear me again. Then I die, 'til you call me again. What am I?

It could be an echo !

Fly...

It's so great and fatastic to speak English on this topic !!
But I haven't understand everything ...
Yes excuse me, I am just a pupil who has English at school 3 hours in a week. So I apologie for my mistakes ...
But don't worry, I always try to improve English !! Yes you see on July, I will go in Malta (Malte ?) to improve my English as well as possible

See you everybody !!


Flo

Here are some hints for the quest of getting efficient and more than fluent:

-move your ass to an english speaking country, AND:
-have an activity (aviation training, a job...) that involves using english several hours a day, and:
-watch a movie EVERYDAY and repeat each single sentence to practice your pronouciation, your accent (record your voice if necessary and compare it), and:
-have some study material concerning aviation english (radio), learn it everyday, and:
-buy "english grammar in use", Raymond Murphy, Cambridge university press, (3 levels): do one exercise every day.

6 month after you'll be fine, but as you see it requires a bit more than coming to an english speaking country only... You have to do what it takes.

I recommend to them to learn phonetic alphabet (the stranges letters before every word in all dictionnaries) which was designed to read worldwide languages with neutral accent.

Sorry but I am not too sure about that.

"Here are some hints for the quest of getting efficient and more than fluent:

-move your ass to an english speaking country"

- And, what about doing the whole thing, I mean the whole training, let's say for 2 years, in the UK?

Then, your English's gonna be damn good!!

That's why I moved in the UK...

That should read: "That's why I moved to the UK..." Sorry, mate - couldn't help it!

Cheers

Ok, I got it! hihi

Actually, I just wanted to be sure, you are aware of that fact...but, obviously you are!!

Well done, pal!!