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Should beginners learn colloquialisms?
Skip to: comments (1); categories; related posts; previous/next postAn ex-English teacher says:
One thing I tried to discourage the students from doing, as it happens, was pursue their interest in learning colloquial English phrases. They all wanted to do so: they thought it would show how much they knew real English, English as it is spoken and therefore English as they wished to speak it. Of course - though I could never get them to understand this - the effect would actually be the opposite. Because to speak a language colloquially, you have to demonstrate your comfort with the language, your identification with it.
Last night I met someone who claimed to be unfamiliar with fuck in any of its forms and contexts. There’s got to be a middle way.
Trevor @ 18 March 2008 9:50 AM
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10:51 AM on 18 March 2008
“Because to speak a language colloquially, you have to demonstrate your comfort with the language, your identification with it.” - yes, but adopting colloquialisms and ‘demonstrating your comfort/identification with the language’ are hardly mutually-exclusive, innit.