Oral Exam Time - Danish kids and their English

[Penelopeys]

Okay - today and tomorrow my English class are taking oral exams.

It always lead to funny expressions

Here's today's:

One girl has a topic on friendship - she says: "friends are very impotent!!"

This guy had to give parents advice on teenagers - and asked what his parents could do to make his life better he said:

"I wish they would let me sleep more with my friends on school nights"

I guess he meant sleep OVER...

[aliando]

you'r teaching them well then?!

[Pocket Lady]

[Penelopeys]

Originally Posted by Pocket Lady

good to see you online

[A-Team]

no comment. this is a forum largely made up of native english speakers so it would be pretty audacious of any of us to laugh at anyone's foreign language skills.

[Mr Intensity]

I remember in a French oral exam I once said something which translated as "I like to play in the bathroom with balls". The examiner struggled to keep a straight face for the rest of the exam

[Pocket Lady]

Originally Posted by Penelopeys

good to see you online

thanks sweetie x

[peteg40]

I'll take any Oral

[stewartd14]

Originally Posted by Mr Intensity

I remember in a French oral exam I once said something which translated as "I like to play in the bathroom with balls". The examiner struggled to keep a straight face for the rest of the exam

Couple I know of are:

A guy was talking about his appearance and he said:

Ma Cheval est rouge (Or something like that)

Anyway, it translated to I have a horse on my head.

The other one is making a mistake with the plurals etc and someone once said I have one hair on my head.

Not as good as they could be but thats all we ever got and needless to say the teacher never let them forget.

[Mr Intensity]

Yeah thankfully that was the end of my French education

[McG]

One that still makes Mrs McG smile was from 1986, our honeymoon near Budva, where the Yugoslavian rep was showing us details of the forthcoming attractions, displayed on one side of a large, free-standing notice-board, then suggested, "Would you like to come round and see my back side?" - Cue barely suppressed chortling

[Dodger]

Mid 70s, French ''O'' level oral, easy peasy.
Listened to a tape of a story being read in French and then just had to tell the examiner, in English, what the story was all about...
A little boy leaving school and walking home. He walked through the town and noticed a shop was on fire. Phoned the fire brigade who came and put the fire out. He was given a ride home in the fire-engine.

That was so bloody easy , I told my class mates...but, they asked...


did you manage to name ALL the animals she saw at the zoo ?????????????

Needless to say I got a ''U''

[TheRat]

I used to work with a bit of a wrong un who had been in Spain 2 years but knew zero Spanish. We were sat in a resteraunt for lunch and he wanted some bread, so he asked my colleague what is Spanish for bread, "Pan" he replied

So this lad turned round, and no word of a lie, shouted to the waitress,
"Oi love, can I get some Pan"

Maybe you had to be there, but it was gold

[Cassius Marcellus]

Immigrants were thin on the ground in my school in the early 60s. We had one who was Chinese in the year above me, and one Indian in the same year, in the other form class. He could speak English pretty well but struggled with some words. He wanted some more scrap paper for his maths, so he asked the boy at the desk next to his, waving a piece in the air. The boy told him it was called 'shit'. You can imagine the class reaction when he put his hand up and the teacher asked what he wanted.

And what became of the helpful lad who told him it was called 'shit'?

He went on to become a police officer in the London Met.

[bartonbank]

Originally Posted by A-Team

no comment. this is a forum largely made up of native english speakers so it would be pretty audacious of any of us to laugh at anyone's foreign language skills.

But, but, but....the British have based a large part of the national humour on taking the mick out of Johnny Foreigner's language skills. That and knob and fart jokes, of course, but mainly Johnny Foreigner!

[KONG]

Well, I must admit. Write with english people, then they have that effect on you that you gain their "slang" words like: luv, 2night, m8 etc..

But any how, I like the english way of talking

[Cassius Marcellus]

luv, 2night, m8 etc

is for da yoof who use it on mobile phone texts.

You're better off learning cockney, then you can talk proper, like what I does.....innit.

[KONG]

Originally Posted by Cassius Marcellus

luv, 2night, m8 etc

is for da yoof who use it on mobile phone texts.

You're better off learning cockney, then you can talk proper, like what I does.....innit.

Well, if you talk with english people on msn, they tend to write that way.

Anyway, cockney talking are proper talking