Friday, September 17, 2004

When I look at my previous posts I see how much my knowledge of English sucks. There are SO many mistakes in the way I write. But hey, who cares, no one ever reads all this stuff anyways. i don't like when people read what I write, but when I write in English this feeling is even worse. Wow, that sounded gay. I don't even look at the screen when I type, that's why I let so many mistakes slip. But the problem is not the grammar or spelling mistakes, but logical sense mistakes. Sometimes I write stuff that don't make any sense. I don't know, maybe I'm just lazy to study more English.

Today I visited an intersting website, it has samples of people from all over the world reading the same sentence in english. The goal of this website is to show that people don't read english wrong, but instead there's always a pattern that people from different places follow accordingly to their native language. That's actually very obvious, but it's fun to hear people who say that they've been studying english for so many years actually read so poorly. Oh well, it's not their fault. Even some native english speakers mispronounced words. A girl said "stake"instead of "snake". The worst of the ones I hear was one from a woman from Bahia, Brazil. I think she didn't pronounce even two words right. I don't know why she tried to read that if she didn't know english. I didn't see a lot of them, but it's cool.

Here's the website http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/
By the way you need QuickTime to hear the samples. Have fun. That's it for now. Bye

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