[Closed] Rate your ability to speak English . . . .

Zehn

Salmon

Lemmings

Nein

Perhaps you could supply some fixed points to aid the numerical conversion. I'm assuming 10 = Jacob Rees-Mogg? 1 = Donald Trump?

Do you waaaaaaaant.......do you waaaaaaaant.....to come back to my place? Bouncy bouncy?

4

But I wouldn't know a single word to say
If I flattened all the vowels
And threw the 'are' away

😛

Erm? Tricky one to quantify, but if we say Bernard Cribbins is a 10 and a Cheese Sandwich is a 1, I'd say 8.

But as we all know, if you can say "two beers please" which in English is "two beers please" you're as fluent as you need to be.

Me and my mate are 10s

Eleventy teen.

Ate point free sicks fore

Bigly

Canny (Geordies will understand)

Wibble

Hellish - old mackems will understand

I is like the gangsta of proes and whoes, word up, blood, innit man!

am i speaking it , typing it, or copying and pasting it ?

Gooder than every other poster on hear

I'd give her one.

Ooo, matron! 😯 😆

iz niiiiiiiiice

Ate point free sicks fore

Yer maws goat baws and yer da loves it.

Mine goes to eleven!

Wood of sedate

I would say 10. Out of all my friends I'm the best. There not very good.

Suffolk ain't it buh?

High six!

Twelvety.

5.74

Too.

Pourquois?

You trying to get into Canada or something?

Que?

CaptainFlashheart - Member
Do you waaaaaaaant.......do you waaaaaaaant.....to come back to my place? Bouncy bouncy?

I have said 'no' every single time of the 107 you have asked. Don't let that put you off though...

😉

locally a 10, nationally about 5, worldwide 1 .

You great poof.

Leeds comp. So regionally fifteen, nationally 9 (listen to R4), compared with Indian call centre....

CaptainFlashheart - Member
You great poof.

😀

Sethara

Còig no sia a-mach à deich. Carson?

A hell of a lot betterer than I can speak Japanese! Or French, German, Croatian, Russian...

Diez y media. Ay up Tony. Just working out the plan of campaign for the Vuelta, looks like we'll be at the finish in Tarragona, the TT in Logroño and a couple of mountain finishes in the Picos, you??

martinhutch - Member
Perhaps you could supply some fixed points to aid the numerical conversion. I'm assuming 10 = Jacob Rees-Mogg? 1 = Donald Trump?

Where would Billy Connolly be on that scale? 15 or so I think.

I didn't quantify the question because this is exactly how I was asked the question on a job application form here in Spain.
I put "10 - fluently" Because I know there isn't anyone anywhere near here that can argue the point 🙂

In real life, the size of your vocabulary - "extensive" or "caveman" - would be important. It's no good being able to pronounce the only 20 words you know correctly if you still only know 20 words.

Hey Duncan - not sure about the Vuelta. Not being in possession of a lovely camper van means our plans get more complicated!

Might head west for a stage though - and maybe visit Pamplona while we're there . . . .

Queens English - 4
Technobollocks - 9
Two bears please - 5

reight gradley.

There's a 42km ITT along the road from Pamplona to Logroño on 5th of Sept which we're going to then a mountain stage in the Cantabrian mountains the day after. We're planning to camp here [url= http://www.campinglunada.com ]San Roque[/url] as it's near the finish line.

You've mispronounced that Ton

Barnsley born and bred,so orreyt !

I didn't quantify the question because this is exactly how I was asked the question on a job application form here in Spain.
I put "10 - fluently"

Was that the only option Spekkie? I'd imagine you speak natively, which rather trumps fluently (eg I speak Spanish fluently but can't claim natively, whereas my OH speaks English as a 2nd* language at near-native level)
*actually, 3rd

It's not quite the same thing, but I teach ESL up to [url= https://en.wikipdia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages ]C2 level[/url] (ie the highest tested) and often have to do the exams myself. They're not easy, esecially in the given time limits, and I reckon most native English speakers would struggle if they hadn't practised the exam format beforehand.

I think the standard terminology for such job related forms is 'native speaker'.

The brits abroad default is to shout loud and slowly so the natives understand, is it not.

bob - the exact question was:

"¿Cual es tu nivel de inglés entre cero y diez? ¿Y de otros idiomas?"

(What is your English level between zero and ten? What about other languages?)

Which shows exactly why they need someone to help them. As you say, Native trumps Fluent by a long way.

bruneep - increase volume until you get the desired result.

🙂

am i speaking it , typing it, or copying and pasting it ?

0 points for reading 😉

My English is almost perfect for me. You like? 😆

How much? Too expensive! I give £££. Thank you. Everyone happy. 😆

Basic Engly twentyfido in jawflappy? Fivelode out of tenly - indeedy ho

Deep Joy

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/profile/mark-datz-2-2 ]whatever happened to mark datz?[/url]

S'poze y'all speak fine, an dandy.

American English'isms with QE/RP highlights thrown in for a'fitten in.

So, 9/10 because I can actually be understood.

However, regional accents and colloquialisms should be championed and spoken proudly.

I really dislike the dumbing down of accents...

They're or theirabouts a nine.

Basic Engly twentyfido in jawflappy? Fivelode out of tenly - indeedy ho

Deep Joy

Fableous!

At a sprightly 41 I don't imagine there are many of my generation who have a clue who Stanley Unwin was. Their loss.

Deep Joy

I do Rob. Thanks to The Small Faces.

Basic Engly twentyfido in jawflappy? Fivelode out of tenly - indeedy ho

Deep Joy

thestabiliser - Member
Sethara

Whaaaaasssssuuuuup?

It's not my ability to speak English that is in question, it's the ability of those listening to hear and understand what is actually being said. 😉

Wan.

Yan a dick

Pimp

Bumfit

I keep trying to get work to put us through an IELTS test, just to see how we'd do. There's a pretty good chance I'd fail a Pearson automated test because of my accent though.