My english is getting bad

[NIeves]

Hello

Yesterday I was talking to a Scot (Scotsman may I say that?) and discovered that my english is getting bad since a live in Spain (must be something like a virus...just joking). So I am looking for somebody to talk in english. I offer spanish, german, french.
Anyone interested?

Bye

[daveyboy]

Hello

Yesterday I was talking to a Scot (Scotsman may I say that?) and discovered that my english is getting bad since a live in Spain (must be something like a virus...just joking). So I am looking for somebody to talk in english. I offer spanish, german, french.
Anyone interested?

Bye
A scotsman..? yeah its ok..lol.. well i am a scotsman [ full blooded ] just not with the accent..lol.. well as you know they speak english but they pronounce there words a lot different than say the ppl further down south in the uk, its the same with liverpool, newcastle, birmigham and london.. but i think scottish is a very strong way of talking in english, for instance glasgow is very very stong compared with edingburgh...;D

[NIeves]

Well, it's not the first time I hear the scottish accent. But when I was talking, there weren't words! That scared me! I used to speak well, but I don't know what happened.
Is it offensive to say Scotsman?

[greytop]

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Is it offensive to say Scotsman?Not unless they are English!
Joking aside you will hear very good English spoken in parts of Scotland such as round Inverness. Like all countries though there are parts where it is a different language. North of Aberdeen for example they speak Doric which is almost unintelligible to a stranger. Also a real Glasgow accent can be a problem, but it is mainly the different words they use that cause the trouble as they have come from Gaelic, old Norse and several other places.
I speak as an Englishman who lived in Scotland and the Shetland Isles for nearly 20 years and I'm married to a Scots lass from just south of Glasgow ;D

[NIeves]

Ten years ago I went to London in a Language School. My landlady was/is scottish. So I was confronted to the accent but it wasn't diffcult.

[dan b]

Do not worry about not being able to understand a Scotman. I am a native English speaker from the United Sates and when I was in Spain last year i met a man from Scotland and Io could barely understand a word that he was saying.

[Beckett]

I find the Scottish accent quite delightful but I can see how it would be difficult for a non-native English speaker to follow at times.

[gary]

I have spent a great deal of my professional life working with challenging students, most of whom have not had the greatest grasp of the fineries of the English language. When I left college I was a confident and accurate speller - I wish I could say the same now, after being exposed to the whole spectrum of spelling possibilities I often have to think before I write. I am now checking this for typos to deny eldeano the opportunity for a quip. Firefox has not underlined anything but proper nouns in red so I may be safe to publish....

[NIeves]

It is not the accent. My landlady was scottish and I did understand her very well. I had diffulties to find words in english. That must be the mix of languages in my head!! I never had to study hard, so that was frightening.
;D

[Edith]

I have spent a great deal of my professional life working with challenging students, most of whom have not had the greatest grasp of the fineries of the English language.

Once I took part in a three-month international seminar on social studies, and none of the students were native speakers of English. As a result, my oral skills deteriorated FAST!

[eldeano]

I have spent a great deal of my professional life working with challenging students, most of whom have not had the greatest grasp of the fineries of the English language. When I left college I was a confident and accurate speller - I wish I could say the same now, after being exposed to the whole spectrum of spelling possibilities I often have to think before I write. I am now checking this for typos to deny eldeano the opportunity for a quip. Firefox has not underlined anything but proper nouns in red so I may be safe to publish....

Top marks. :clap: