Teach me English please

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Right but the accents are different. Just like Brazil and Portugal.

That's a bit of a loose comparison. Portuguese of Portugal vs Brazilian is technically similar but the accents have been known to make Brazilians unable to tell what Portuguese are saying to them. However, Brazilians working in Portugal have gotten used to it and got over that issue they have.

 

[Yoshimashin]

Right but the accents are different. Just like Brazil and Portugal.

Brazilian Portuguese sounds different from Portugal Portuguese.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Brazilian Portuguese sounds different from Portugal Portuguese.

Yep, because they are nothing alike. Brazilian Portuguese is more like another Latin Spanish language.

 

[dAVID_]

Things that helped me were: keep trying, watch English content, listen to English shows, play videogames in English, read and write a lot, talk with people. Improving and trying is the key!

I watched television in english since i was 3-4 years old, that's how i got so good.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Some Canadians pronounce the letter 'z' the English way, while others the American way. Not sure there's any that say 'schedule' like the English, from the Canadian shows that I've seen that has never happened. They did say as per the Americans.

Just a thought. Take from a language from different sides and then mix it up.

 

[BobDoleOwndU]

Some Canadians pronounce the letter 'z' the English way, while others the American way. Not sure there's any that say 'schedule' like the English, from the Canadian shows that I've seen that has never happened. They did say as per the Americans.

Just a thought. Take from a language from different sides and then mix it up.

I always pronounce z as zed, which is the correct pronunciation for Canadian English. But in the context of a title or name that traditionally uses the American pronunciation, such as Dragon Ball Z or Lay-Z-Boy, I use the American pronunciation. (Dragon Ball Zee, Lay-Zee-Boy.) Saying Dragon Ball Zed or Lay-Zed-Boy would sound a bit silly.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

I always pronounce z as zed, which is the correct pronunciation for Canadian English. But in the context of a title or name that traditionally uses the American pronunciation, such as Dragon Ball Z or Lay-Z-Boy, I use the American pronunciation. (Dragon Ball Zee, Lay-Zee-Boy.) Saying Dragon Ball Zed or Lay-Zed-Boy would sound a bit silly.

If you're used to it in Japanese or Spanish then "Dragon Ball Zed" will sound similar to "Doragon Boru Zetto", "Dragón Ball Zeta" or "Bola de Dragón Zeta". This is just something of habits that people are used to hearing "Dragon Ball Zee" and never "Dragon Ball Zed".

For English dub watchers hearing 'Saiyan' said as Sai-yan will sound weird as they're used to Say-un.



Check at 0:27.

The audio differences on that clip is due to censorship, so the scenes missing were re-added with the original Japanese Super audio.

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Daemon Hatfield from IGN pronounced it properly too on this video:



I'm not even gonna read the comment section of it.

 

[Quantumcat]

I only just saw this thread, I don't know if the OP is still reading it. But you can only learn to speak a language if you're forced to do it. I went on exchange to France for a year when I was a teenager, and after about two months I could speak pretty well, at the end of the year I was fluent and in fact I continued to dream in French for a few months after coming home. And then a few years later I went back for a holiday with my boyfriend and I saw my old host family and it only took about a day before I could start speaking again. In fact many times my boyfriend would ask me a question about what we are talking about and I would turn to him and reply in French and not realise I was doing it

But now, it's like ten years later and there is no chance I could hold a conversation. I can read in French very well, and understand new words from the context like you described for English. But I can only understand snippets when someone is speaking to me and there's no way I could speak back. Even though I try to read a French novel a few times a year so I don't forget everything. If you want to learn English, you have to move somewhere where that's the only option and be forced to do it. You can't have any family or friends that can speak your language so you're never tempted to revert back to it. In my school in France there were American and Canadian exchange students who always spoke in English to each other. I would try replying in French but they weren't interested. So I didn't talk to them much. At the end of the year my French was miles better than theirs.

 

[sarkwalvein]

On the one hand I agree that when you are submerged into it you learn faster.
On the other hand I have to state that you need more than just that, you need to actually like it or give a little more than a fuck.
I mean, I know I never put a hell lot of an effort into it, but after 5+ years living in Germany, my German is still topkek quality. Yes, I am "somewhat" fluent(?), yes I "somewhat" understand it, but hell, it sounds like shit. I think it would never, even in a 1000 years, pass as a native speaker's.

Also, when you complain to yourself that (most) anime in Netflix only have German subtitles, it should be a flag that you are not fast enough reading German, compared to English, to the point I even end up either changing the audio to German (eww, but at least it is easier to follow), or using Crunchyroll, ... or pirating the hell out of it when it is restricted.