Lounging By the Beach - Part 2

[JustaGuy]

OK, i know when I'm being given a push

but yes, it is time for sleep

goodnight JaG and Ginger

sleep well

Awww....not what I meant. I know you know.

You're welcome to stay and chat. And I'm getting ready to log off too, late even for me.

And night night if you're heading off.

 

[CES]

I know that you know that i know

 

[JustaGuy]

I know that you know that i know

............

 

[JustaGuy]

Well, Ginger, just the two of us left. Are you all done with your garden?

 

[Gingerzeronic]

when you dream in the language is when you really know you're fluent...but i wouldn't have bargained for the disorientation..(but, heck, I'm not entirely sure i even dream in english- it's all images, not words, when i even remember)

I'd say you're good at that point. I don't what "fluent" means really. You can never be a "native speaker" if you haven't grown up in the culture. You can be very, very good, perfectively good accent-wise, completely conversational but still a bit "off" from time-to-time. Nothing that would cause trouble but still detectable to a native speaker.

Meh.

 

[JustaGuy]

I'd say you're good at that point. I don't what "fluent" means really. You can never be a "native speaker" if you haven't grown up in the culture. You can be very, very good, perfectively good accent-wise, completely conversational but still a bit "off" from time-to-time. Nothing that would cause trouble but still detectable to a native speaker.

Meh.

English is second language for me. Do I sound native English at all, or am I still off a little? I don't think I have an accent, well, West Coast I think.

I know there are many slang things I don't do or do well.

 

[Gingerzeronic]

Well, Ginger, just the two of us left. Are you all done with your garden?

No way! I still need to get the annuals in: Elephant ears, Caladium, Impatiens, and all the sprouts: Amaranthus, Datura, Patty-Pan, Bunny Grass, and so much more!

 

[JustaGuy]

No way! I still need to get the annuals in: Elephant ears, Caladium, Impatiens, and all the sprouts: Amaranthus, Datura, Patty-Pan, Bunny Grass, and so much more!

Wow!! And you do it all over again next year?

 

[Gingerzeronic]

English is second language for me. Do I sound native English at all, or am I still off a little? I don't think I have an accent, well, West Coast I think.

I know there are many slang things I don't do or do well.

We always sound "better" in writing - including native speakers! The think-pause makes us all sound less flip, less regional, less casual, and less crude.

 

[Gingerzeronic]

Wow!! And you do it all over again next year?

I do it more every year - I have a greenhouse!

 

[JustaGuy]

We always sound "better" in writing - including native speakers! The think-pause makes us all sound less flip, less regional, less casual, and less crude.

To me, conversational writing is more challenge than writing, say, a story.


OK, I have to leave you now. The sailboat exit pic cometh!



Shower and a late dinner for me...

 

[JustaGuy]

I do it more every year - I have a greenhouse!

And a green thumb!

 

[JustaGuy]

I'm done for the night. Goodnight Ginger! Sorry I can't stay longer, sweet dreams!

 

[Sundrinkr]

just a stupid guy without a language

Just a very smart loveable guy who can speak and write in TWO languages!!!!!! In MY book you are

 

[Gingerzeronic]

 

[Sundrinkr]

i wish i could speak English the way i type, it would be a big step in my life

Hell and tarnation boy, iffen you ever has any notion on larnin' you a THIRD language you jist hightail it up the road a little and I'll larn you to talk southern as fast as a rocket inter space. Now that shore would be sumpin' and yore friends'll think you done gone highfalutin' on 'em...iffen they can understand just what it is yore asayin'....

Translation: Lis, if you would like to learn a third language, come on up to N. Fl and I'll teach you how to speak southern very quickly. That would be a blast and your friends would really be impressed.

 

[Sundrinkr]

But seriously (must I?), there IS no topic here, just chatting. Reading back is not necessary either. We just let it all hang out...within forum rules.

And sometimes WITHOUT if we are feel really daring!

 

[Sundrinkr]

but without the power of the spoken language and i am not deaf or mute

Lis -- Why don't you come up to Vapestock in Indian Rocks Beach, fl in a few weeks? Vapestock 2012 It's gonna be a blast and you would be immersed in the language for two whole days.

 

[Sundrinkr]

 

[FranC]