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How would you rate your English?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Aussie792, Jun 14, 2014.

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Your English skills from 1 (bad) to 10 (good)

  1. 10 - Perfect

    32 vote(s)
    28.1%
  2. 9

    23 vote(s)
    20.2%
  3. 8

    33 vote(s)
    28.9%
  4. 7

    13 vote(s)
    11.4%
  5. 6 - Slightly above average

    7 vote(s)
    6.1%
  6. 5 - Slightly sub-par

    5 vote(s)
    4.4%
  7. 4

    1 vote(s)
    0.9%
  8. 3

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  9. 2

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  10. 1 - Very poor

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. Aussie792

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    EC is an English-speaking forum, though a global forum is obviously occupied by people (even native speakers) whose English isn't so good.

    So, how do you rate your English out of ten?

    This includes your understanding of formal grammar, tenses, conjugation, and idioms (not that you're expected to know regional dialects to put yourself at 10)

    This is also using Standard English (either US or Commonwealth spelling/grammar), not localised vernacular.
     
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  2. biffle50

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    I think I'm pretty good at English but what we speak now in our generation is usually slang.
     
  3. Aussie792

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    I forgot to add my own. I think I'm 9/10. Although I have a very good command of English, as someone who was brought up in an education system in which no school formally teaches English grammar beyond the basics for native speaker, I sometimes lack an understanding of some grammar and other rules. I have my knowledge of English structure predominantly from studying French, German, and Spanish in-depth and using the information from that and applying it to English, even if it's only an approximation.
     
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    Coming from England, you'd expect me to score myself as ten, but I haven't.

    When it comes to spoken English I would score myself as ten, but my writing style has become very lazy over the years and the basic rules of grammar that were drilled into me at school have slipped quite badly (my old teachers would be appalled). I'd still pass an English exam, but what should be second nature now takes a little more thought and consideration.

    I scored myself eight.
     
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    I would rate myself as a "4." I've always had a poor understanding of the rules of grammar and mechanics. I know it's a pretty low score for a college-educated person, but I can honestly say English is not my forte.
     
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    5

    However sometimes I feel even that is too generous for my English. :frowning2:
     
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    5. I dont understand why some words are said and spelt like they are and i can only really use basic punctuation and grammar. I also struggle to understand some big words. ^.^
     
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    I picked 8 because I've been at this for 12 years now. I mean gosh, English has been a part of my life for more than half of my life now. I'm bound to slip up every now and then but seeing how there's a lot of native speakers with a worse understanding of grammar and spelling than mine, it's probably fine. To err is human after all.
     
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    Very true. There are people in this country who sit in judgement of migrants for not speaking or writing the language, even though they cannot string a basic sentence together themselves without mistakes, or pronounce with any degree of clarity the most basic of words.
     
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    wat, me Engwish b da fine. Eye gave meself a ten owt off ten
     
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    I gave my self a dang ol' 5 because I talk in slang a lot
     
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    I think the question is more about whether you can use good English if necessary, not about what you usually use.

    ---------- Post added 14th Jun 2014 at 04:47 PM ----------

    From what I've read, your English seems fine.
     
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    I relied on learning English by watching American TV shows. I really need to work on my grammar because that is my biggest weakness when it comes to the English language. I also struggle with the use of 'his' and 'her' because we don't really have our own words for it in our Filipino language. We use the word 'siya' because that is the only gender neutral pronoun used for both she and he.
     
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    Born and taught in the UK but I would give myself an 8 or maybe a 9 at a push.

    My generation are simply not taught grammar in school (bar basic punctuation). I never learned about sentence structure, or the parts of speech and so my English probably sounds a bit haphazard.
     
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    I'm acceptable, I suppose, in English circles. I have a bizarre way of punctuation sometimes, because I tend to follow the 'type it as you would speak it' approach, so it may come off as improper or incorrect. So long as I can get my point across, I'd say I'm doing better than most.
     
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    Maybe a 9, and a good chunk of my grammatical skills were self-taught, but my memory is like a sieve, so anything that I have no use for in daily usage quickly exits the brain.
     
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    My English is somewhere between shit and crap but at least I do know how to use "your" and "you're" properly. :icon_wink
     
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    Me two!
     
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    Hey, we're not the only ones without genders after all! I can't even remember the time when the whole he/she/it concept was weird for me honestly, but these days it's more surprising if I learn about a language without those distinctive pronouns. And then top it all off with German, which has a gender for every single noun, and also the plural is not just a common letter either. So you have to learn the nouns with the gender article and the plural suffix, though there are a couple signs that can help. Nouns ending in -heit,-keit,-schaft,-ung are all feminine and so on...
     
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    10, when I put some effort into it. English is my third language, spoke German and then Afrikaans before learning the Queens language when I was 10.