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  • Rate your ability to speak English . . . .
  • pistonbroke
    Free Member

    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??

    igm
    Full Member

    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.

    spekkie
    Free Member

    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.

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    spekkie
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    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 . . . .

    5thElefant
    Free Member

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

    ton
    Full Member

    reight gradley.

    pistonbroke
    Free Member

    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 San Roque as it’s near the finish line.

    igm
    Full Member

    You’ve mispronounced that Ton

    thejesmonddingo
    Full Member

    Barnsley born and bred,so orreyt !

    bob_summers
    Full Member

    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 C2 level (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.

    RoterStern
    Free Member

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

    bruneep
    Full Member

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

    spekkie
    Free Member

    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.

    🙂

    vickypea
    Free Member

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

    0 points for reading 😉

    chewkw
    Free Member

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

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

    donald
    Free Member

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

    Deep Joy

    bruneep
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    bikebouy
    Free Member

    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…

    thomthumb
    Free Member

    They’re or theirabouts a nine.

    RobHilton
    Free Member

    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.

    suburbanreuben
    Free Member

    Deep Joy

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    jamj1974
    Full Member

    I do Rob. Thanks to The Small Faces.

    CountZero
    Full Member

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

    Deep Joy
    😆

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    thestabiliser – Member
    Sethara

    Tethera

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Whaaaaasssssuuuuup?

    whitestone
    Free Member

    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. 😉

    seosamh77
    Free Member

    Wan.

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    Yan a dick

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Pimp

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    Bumfit

    Northwind
    Full Member

    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.

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