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Chris M · #42 01-26-2006, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by christianb

Actually, that's what I thought too, until I took a course in English, while living in Europe. It took several weeks before I could bring my cijfer (grade) up from a 3-5 to at least a 7 (having the lowest grades in the class). One would think that they are the same, essentially, once you get past dialects, pronunciation, spelling, and usage. If I took English on the US grading scale, I would have flunked it.

Well I can think of many differences between the language here and where you are...

There are obviously dialects, which affect us just as much as you; I have trouble understanding far north, far east, far south and far west dialects - Even the london cockney accent is hard to grasp...

I dunno - I understand most of what Americans say to me when I've been over there

Chris

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