jueves, 29 de noviembre de 2012
An anecdote...
An anecdote is "a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person", well, this time your task will be telling one of those stories, that has really happened to yourself, but there is something else about it, your anecdote MUST be about English, we all have had interesting stories aabout a word we don't understand, or a funny thing we read, let's share those experiencies, and to inspire you, take a look at this video that will help you understand certain language differences.
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Hi guys this is my anecdote of when I went to cinema
ResponderEliminarThis summer I went to cinema with my mother, we went to see "Dream house" a horror film very bad, but the good went that in middle of the movie started to tremble and a woman , very fat that was sitting two o three chair of me, started to scream and she got up and ran to the stairway, when she arrived to stairway she hit with a person that was sitting in the last chair, the woman fell for the stairway and in the cinema had that turn on the light and entered paramedics, a time that the paramedics removed to the woman continued the movie, but the best was the little moment of panic.
Hi there, I don´t have any story, but my father has. The last time that he had been in San Francisco, USA, he went to a bar with some colleages after classes of a course. In the bar he ask to the bartender for a "BLACK" beer, and then every one was near to him watched my father with a very bad look for the offensive way to ask for beer, due the bar tender was a afroamerican, then, an American doctor that was in the colleages group, apologised with the bartender for my father, telling that my father was not American. Then the bartender inderstand the mistake of my father, and then, everythink was 0k again, but in the begining they were almost expulsed from the bar. Don´t forget when you ask for your dark beer, do it in the correct form, to avoid a fight... dark beer!!!
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ResponderEliminarLike Alexis, in the last post, I don't have any story or anecdote about any lenguage, but my uncle has one. My uncle lives in Australia, he is there about 30 years ago and when he recently arrived there he knew a girl in his first day of job and she for say goodbye tell him "See you soon" and she go and my uncle thought that this phrase mean a date but he was a litle confused because he did'nt understand that in any moment she say and specific place or hour for the meeting but when he start to hear that expression recurrently he understand that only mean "goodbye" and not a date.
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ResponderEliminarMy anecdote related to the use of my English was in the summer with my friends. We were talking to some women in the U.S. in English and I was a little drunk. I was grabbing very well until it was time to say "you're welcome" and I said "for nothing", they laughed and similarly understood what I meant. Finally my friends explained to me that said "you're welcome" and that women laughed at my bad use of English at the time.
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ResponderEliminarA friend and I were at a party in Valparaiso, then my friend sees a woman with long hair and my friend calls out "that pretty women" then she turns around and she was not she, she was he. My friend was so embarrassed. It was funny.
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ResponderEliminarMy anecdote related to the use of my english was when i saw the WWF and i listened "the rock" he said "it doesn't matter" i thought he talked about his mother (matter). My friends laughed from me, because i tought that and i didn´t know why they laughed from me, until they explained me the phrase that i tought was wrong. Now i use this phrase.
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Manuel Flores!
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ResponderEliminarMy anecdote ocurred 7 years ago. My friend Rafael had been 3 años in E.E.U.U and had recently come to Chile. I remember one night we were walking for Santiago and from darkness came a dog barking and my friend exclaimed "DEUM" was what i heard but then i explained it was "damn". still didn´t understand the meaning in spanish... good to finish tell them that we finish booting of dog.
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ResponderEliminarI haven´t had anecdotes (trying) to talk in english, just remember few years ago, when i met a student woman from USA, and we had begun to go partys, movies and our communication was really funny because i don´t speak english very well, and she was learning spanish....but we spend great moments.
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Hi everybody, my anecdote with the use of english happened 11 years ago. I was in 8th grade, my teacher of english gave a surprise oral test. I trusted in my level of english and i was volunteer. The teacher said me: "you are in a restorant, what do you order?", my answer was: "you can order meat, salads, etc and BROWN after the food". My exam was the worst of my whole life and i`ll always remember that i must order COFFEE after the meals.
ResponderEliminarMy anecdote was the last week when I and some friends were studying for a test. After study all the afternoon, we take a rest and we start speak in english (I don´t remember why we start speak in english). All was good, until that a friend say "please asking me" and start the bullying jajaja. Its was my boring anecdote about english.
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ResponderEliminarMy story happened when I was in secondary education. This was becoming a summer when the English teacher asks us about what we did in the holidays. To my bad luck was the first to respond. I meant he had gone to the beach but I said bitch instead of beach. Everyone laughed at me and I did not understand what was happening.
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ResponderEliminaronce at a party having fun with friends, arrived at the party a group of foreign friends, very nice. Almost immediately a friend who has a high average level of English attempt flyrt with them, but was somewhat drunk, we were all looking forward to what would happen and at one point we noticed that golperaon felt offended and my friend two of her friends at the same time xD, it was funny, then asked why he had been beaten and said "I told them if they could give each other a kiss" xD.
Well, this is not my anecdote, is the anecdote from my mother’s friend. This guy was the boss of my mother in her last job; they worked an Australian firm, so they were learning English as second language… The only one problem for my mother’s friend was the language, he couldn’t learn the language, it was so difficult for him. So, let’s continue, this guy went to Buenos Aires for holidays and once he met with two important men, a CEO and another Manager. They started to talk in English, they greeted him and talked normally, and this guy it was TOTALLY NERVOUS BECAUSE HE DIDN’T SPOKE ENGLISH! AND HE DIDN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THE ENGLISH LESSONS AT WORK! So, he tried to say: WELCOME TO SOUTH AMERICA or something, but instead of that he said YOU ARE WELCOME... The Managers looked to my mother’s friend with a big face of… WHAT? But then with bad English this guy tried to explain that he was learning and he apologized about that… That’s all, and I have to say that this guy wasn’t fired from his job… at least!
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