Improve your English (in English, please!)

[slafko]

Wouldn't it be easier just to paste that shit into Word and turn on the damned spelling checker thingy?

[Kathrin74]

vegard kaže:

Is everything grammatically correct in these sentences?

1
Dear Family,
I am looking forward to becoming a ? in a family in whichmy goal is to teach their childern as well as possible. (better maybe: To be the best teacher I possibly can for the children)
My experience with kids comes mostly from living in my family. I have spent a lot of time with kids,through games and learning.(better maybe: ,have played games and learned with them.
In my childhood I lived in county (I think you mean: on the countRy,and therefore I learned to appreciate nature and most importanly animals.In my family we were always going to thewoods (maybe: INTO the woods?),playing with a dog and cats.
I really enjoyed my childhood,and that is the reason why I would like to improve the lives of young people.
2
My Name is ?.Currently I am 22 years old.
My hobbies are cycling and playing football. I am a sporty person and with these healthly hobbies I would like to have an impact on other people around me.

3
As far as the kids are concerned, I really like spending time with kids and have a positive influence on them.Teach them to make (do?) something on their own.My biggest prize (reward?) is that afterwards they are gonna going to (wouldn't be so colloquial here) be better persons (people?) and maybe someday will thank me me for a good lesson in life.

[antilles]

vegard kaže:

Is everything grammatical correct in these sentences?

Dear Family,

you have 22 years ?
back to square one. a1/a2 i'd say.

vegard kaže:

Is everything grammatically correct in these sentences?.../

dear kathrin.
let them learn the basics. for their own good.

[slafko]

I accidentally a Coca-Cola bottle.

[FeetF1]

Diff engl acc by Jessie J

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw5BvPZGWeU

[FeetF1]

A little bit of poetry, maybe?

The Guitar

It begins, the lament
of the guitar.
The wineglass of dawn
is broken.

It begins, the lament
of the guitar.
It’s useless to silence it.

Impossible
to silence it.

It cries monotonously
as the water cries,
as the wind cries
over the snow.

Impossible
to silence it.
It cries for
distant things.

Sands of the hot South
that demand white camellias.
It cries arrows with no targets,
evening with no morning,
and the first dead bird
on the branch.

Oh, the guitar!
Heart wounded deep
by five swords.

by F. D. Lorca
(translated by A. S. Kline)

[Twotinyfrogs]

Happy New Year, everyone!

Would you like to translate me the phrase ''good riddance'' in Croatian?

[Emericzy]

Twotinyfrogs kaže:

Happy New Year, everyone!

Would you like to translate me the phrase ''good riddance'' in Croatian?

The proper form of the question would be

Would you like to translate the phrase ''good riddance'' into Croatian for me?

[Junia]

Twotinyfrogs kaže:

Happy New Year, everyone!

Would you like to translate me the phrase ''good riddance'' in Croatian?

"Dobro sam te se riješio"?

[robot jura]

Twotinyfrogs kaže:

''good riddance''

"Idi s milim bogom" / "neka ide s milim bogom"?

I'm not sure if "bog" should be written with a capital letter in this instance.

[drtorokandras]

Dear Croatian Users!

First of all forgive me posting my message to this topic, but I don't know what would be the best place for it.
I'm a hungarian doctor and would like to learn a slav language. I like your country and my first idea was to learn your language. Sometimes I travel to Poland and Slovakia and I would be happy if I could speak in those countries too. I have learned russian in the grammar school but it was hundred years before and of course I know it's a separate language.
What is your opinion about russian, slovak and polish language? As a croatian who has never learned those languages how easy is to speak in your own language and communicate as a simple tourist in those countries? What are your experiences about it?

Sorry again about this off-topic message and I would appreciate if anybody could help me either even via email.

Thank you very much.

Andras

([email protected])

[slafko]

If you're planning on traveling to the countries you mentioned, you'd be better off learning German than Croatian.

[Kathrin74]

Welll.... but maybe he just really likes Croatia; same as me... my native language is German and I decided to learn Croatian and now I live here.... )))

[slafko]

Please pay attention. He said he travels to Poland and Slovakia occasionally. Croatian will not help him communicate better with the locals -- German will.

[drtorokandras]

You're right Kathrin.
I love Dalmacija and that's why I'm biased in the direction of croatian language. I would like to learn a slav language but I don't have enough time to learn more than one. I'm not a great tourist, but I would be happy to communicate in a basic level in Croatia and mainly in Slovakia in one language and I'm trying to choose the best.
I have also learned german, aber ich hatte keine Lust. Sorry https://www.forum.hr/images/smilies/smile1.gif

[slafko]

*Slavic language.

[drtorokandras]

I would like to learn a slavic (thanks) language both for pleasure and both for practical reason.
"Croatian will not help him communicate better with the locals -- German will." I understand. Does that mean that you can communicate with a slovak/polish as hard as with a dutch for example?

[drtorokandras]

slafko kaže:

Please pay attention. He said he travels to Poland and Slovakia occasionally. Croatian will not help him communicate better with the locals -- German will.

Thank you. I have read somewhere that a Portuguese is able to slightly understand a Spanish and even talk with him, but it's not true conversely. One of my collegue's husband has polish father and he could speak with the slovak waiter quite easily. I was curious how does this work with croatian. Thank you.

[slafko]

Of course not. Dutch language is basically a person trying to decide whether to speak English or German while having a seizure. Croatian, while similar to Polish and Slovak languages, is not spoken by people of either countries. They do speak English, but -- from my personal experience -- majority of them speaks German a lot better. Which stands to reason - Germany and Austria are their neighbouring countries and generate a lot of tourists. Croatians? Not so much.

Besides, learning Croatian only because it's a Slavic language and therefore similar to Polish and Slovak languages will only hinder your communication efforts by generating a lot of false friends.

[drtorokandras]

slafko kaže:

Of course not. Dutch language is basically a person trying to decide whether to speak English or German while having a seizure. Croatian, while similar to Polish and Slovak languages, is not spoken by people of either countries. They do speak English, but -- from my personal experience -- majority of them speaks German a lot better. Which stands to reason - Germany and Austria are their neighbouring countries and generate a lot of tourists. Croatians? Not so much.

"Besides, learning Croatian only because it's a Slavic language and therefore similar to Polish and Slovak languages will only hinder your communication efforts by generating a lot of false friends.

Well, I don't want to deny I'm Hungarian (I'm proud of it) and don't want to get false friends playing to be Croatian. I really find Croatia and croatian people likable and after deciding to learn a slavic language I would have been happy if Croatian could help me for example ordering food in a restaurant in Slovakia. I now understand that it won't work. (It's not easy for us, because here's no language which is similar to ours and that's why I couldn't ideate this similar-to-my-language-and-can-understand-some-words-of-it thing).
Ali hvala za pomoć. :-)