Ali Express

[Neale]

I've been using the SZGH manuals recently and while the English is not good, it's perfectly understandable with a little bit of work - as Muzzer says, if you understand the basic subject it makes sense but there's no way that a beginner would make much of it. Hey, I know people who been speaking English since birth and still struggle!

[cropwell]

I know people who been speaking English since birth and still struggle!

Gosh, both my children took about a year before they could speak and another two before they could engage in meaningful debate

[JAZZCNC]

Hey, I know people who been speaking English since birth and still struggle!

This made me think of a snowboarding holiday in Switzerland where my mate who has a very broad Barnsley accent, (just think Broad Yorkshire accent on steroids) was trying to chat up a french bird and I had to translate from "Barnsglish" to "Yorksglish" so this poor lass had half a chance of understanding English, let's just say he never got any tail...

[Kitwn]

This made me think of a snowboarding holiday in Switzerland where my mate who has a very broad Barnsley accent, (just think Broad Yorkshire accent on steroids) was trying to chat up a french bird and I had to translate from "Barnsglish" to "Yorksglish" so this poor lass had half a chance of understanding English, let's just say he never got any tail...

As every Englishman knows, the way to make a foreigner understand you is to speak loudly and with slow, exaggerated articulation. This is a characteristic of the normal Yorkshire accent, especially when speaking to people from Lancashire.

[JAZZCNC]

As every Englishman knows, the way to make a foreigner understand you is to speak loudly and with slow, exaggerated articulation. This is a characteristic of the normal Yorkshire accent, especially when speaking to people from Lancashire.

We don't speak to Lancastrian's we use universal sign language. The same one we learned from speaking with smart-arse Aussies...

[Kitwn]

We don't speak to Lancastrian's we use universal sign language. The same one we learned from speaking with smart-arse Aussies...