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Re: Where to find daily conVerSation

Tanit — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:13:00 GMT

Hi K.,

I spent a whole year in the UK, doing a postgraduate course. To make things worse, I chose to go to Wales because Cardiff Uni is at the cutting edge in my field. Have you ever heard somebody speaking with a Welsh accent? For the first two months there, I only wanted to cry... In spite of my excellent performances during tests and exams (I had taken the FCE, the CAE and the TOEFL), I could understand very little outside the Uni
You know, most teachers' accents were pretty standard and easy... something like BBC's anchors, and my classmates were mostly international students, each with their own accent (we were a funny bunch!). I simply became accustomed to them... Welsh English (there was a girl who had a nice Swansea accent), Scottish English, Cornish English, Virginia English (AmE), Indian English, but also French-English, Chinese-English, Pakistan-English, Greek-English and lot more! Oh, I really miss them!
However, cashiers in supermarkers and kids playing in the parks were too hard for me... real English, lots of phrasal verbs I had never heard before, lots of contractions, and intonation quite different from the one I am used to!!!
Funnily, for a piece of coursework I had to interview six people. I was quite discouraged when I had to do the write-ups of the interviews (I remember you posted in the thread I created, "Spoken English").

Anyway, what I wanted to say is: formal education (all of the four skills) has helped me a lot to deal with University tasks, or with "formal" situations; it was not of (great) use, though, when it came to "real", daily life. I had often to guess, but people were usually kind, and when I made it clear I hadn't understood, they would repeat slowlier what they had just said, or rephrase it.

bibliography on phrasal verbs

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:13:22 GMT

My name's David and I'm an American living in Brazil.
I'm studying at a university here (UNIP - Paulista University), majoring in Portuguese and also a foreign language (which in my case is English). I'm developing a project on phrasal verbs - specifically focusing on a method to help the brazilian people to learn phrasal verbs in an effective way. I needed some bibliography on this subject, especially about the importance of phrasal verbs. Would any of you be able to help me out on this matter?

Thank you in advance. I appreciate your help!

Re: "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press:

Marius Hancu — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:14:55 GMT

AmE
Several verbs (suggest, recommend, ask, etc) require the subjunctive after them:
I suggested she go to the library.

BrE
The subjunctive is avoided in such constructions, and the should + infinitive is used:
I suggested she should go to the library.
or ordinary present and past tenses:
I suggested she went to the library.

See: Swan, Practical English Usage, should (in subordinate clauses) and subjunctive.

Re: "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press:

CalifJim — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:00:29 GMT

GG,

I agree with your analysis. The question is whether the Cambridge example was implicitly a claim that I suggested she went to the library had the same meaning as I suggested she go to the library, in which case it must be a British thing.

CJ

Re: "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press:

Yoong Liat — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:07:47 GMT

The D In Paris wrote:
I found the following phrase in "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press:

"... I suggested she went to the library .. "

I've read that "I suggested she went to the library", "I suggested she should go to the library" amd "I suggested she go to the library" are grammatically correct.

Re: "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press:

Grammar Geek — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:01:43 GMT

Well, at first glance, you say "Oh my gosh, no! It should be I suggestd she GO to the library." But that would only be true if you had been making that suggestion to "her."

If, on the other hand, "she" was missing, and people were talking about where she might be, I can see this discription of the discussion: "Peter thought she was taking a nap, while Evelyn though she was at the pub. I suggested [that] she went to the library." (Even so, I might use "had gone.")

What do others think?

"English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press:

The D In Paris — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:53:10 GMT

I found the following phrase in "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press:

"... I suggested she went to the library .. "

Doesn't sound right to me ! What do you think ?

Re: Live or living

MrPedantic — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:41:52 GMT

Hello Rotter

"On campus" is a fixed expression, as Pinenut says. There are other similar expressions, e.g. "on site".

1. I have a room on campus.

â in British English, this means "I have a room in one of the university buildings". (You would usually take such a room for a year.)

2. Do you live on campus?

â this means "do you have a room in one of the university buildings?"

(The "on" goes with the "campus", rather than the "live". Thus "live on" in #2 isn't a phrasal verb.)

MrP

Bound ... for

yohanan — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:46:29 GMT

Hi,
I am new on this forum and I came here with the desire to ameliorate my knowledge of English, so I AM THANKFUL FOR THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THIS FORUM. I almost never actively practised English and need some help from time to time. The colleague who used to help me has left the University and this is why I come to the forum.
My question just now is about the meaning of the following sentence:
"For nobody came to meet the little group of returning Americans, bound mostly for places far away."
I was unable to find out the exact meaning of this last part "bound â¦ for". I searched the Shorter OED as well as the Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs by Rosemary Courtney.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Yohanan

Re: Phrasal Verb of the day

chris — Sun, 25 May 2003 18:22:36 GMT

Malta has two official languages, Maltese and English. Maltese is a mixture of Italian and Arabic - not the easiest language to learn and is extremely consonantal.

Kids in Malta learn English and Maltese, Italian through television and school and have to choose either French or German in secondary school.

I'm not Maltese and therefore can only speak English and a little broken French and German.

With only one university in Malta, children are pushed to study hard from an early age and language acquirement is becoming increasingly important.