There are situations where it isn’t: loosing the morher and baby at the same time - you look outside and there is this baboon making fun of it.
But if you look at a Scrooge like situation it might poke someone in the right direction also.
It would be more appropriate to be in a grim reaper costume in front of smoke shops / liquor stores. Nobody would raise an eyebrow. And that’s still funny while being the good guy reminding people of the dangers.
Have you tried to give them american comic books? Or some very popular teenager adventure stories?
It is hard to grab someone’s interest if it’s just schoolwork…
Appreciate the compliment!
My accent is really strong and that won’t change. I don’t have the ability to do that.
Interesting to note: I noticed that native US speakers actually struggle more to understand really strong accented second language English.
They don’t have a problem with the southern deep deep “crocodile hunter” English, but watch something with a very strong accented English - even some Ted talks - and they start to struggle.
At first glance it is really funny. But of course the people who were genuinely affected are the victims. And nothing funny about it.
Reading the article I don’t think the guy is actually 100 there. I believe he is struggling and just acting out - not that it is an excuse.
Gillespie also stole £30 to £40 of cat food and litter from a local Pets at Home on March 26, along with food and drink from Sainsbury’s in Llandudno on May 28, a court heard. He was ordered to pay £100 in fines, £100 in cost to the Crown Prosecution Service and £50 in compensation.
My second language was German - then I was forced to pick up a third in high school. It was English…
I sucked in both those mainly because I didn’t want to learn. I chalk it up for my undiagnosed dyslexia - that didn’t help to make it fun at all.
What made me to stick to English is: everything was English on the Internet, all the games and so on.
Then I wanted to read some not yet translated book series so went to read in English. I wasn’t speaking it.
Then moved to the big old USA and now I’m 99% English only. I do understand some German but ohh boy did it move into passive knowledge…
So when you have no choice you will learn. (Tho there are so many people who don’t speak English and proud of it… That’s the one thing I can’t wrap my head around. How can be proud of your refusal to learn.)
Edit: forgot to recommend something - I believe it is phenomenal in some cases: language transfer I tried the English to Spanish and it is amazing for a native English speaker - hut there is value for non native speaker also!
Some cultural reference:
“A hullámban” means a bit more also: There were two ‘water parks / pools’ that had a wave pool. Usualy Palatinusz fürdő was referenced as ‘hullám’- the other was Gellért but that was probably too posh for Jucika.