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Thu 17 Jul, 2008 08:08 am
Hello. English is not my native language and I couldn't understand these sentences. Could anybody correct me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sdzlOH8B0
Cold, please. [It doesn't make sense, but that's what I've heard]
-Now?
There's no point in find what we were looking for.
- What about...
- I'm sleep and... , Penny. I'll fetch you please back in Shannamar[Is it a name of a city?].
Thanks in advance.
Hoo, boy, English IS my native language, and that's hard to understand anyway. Sounds like some peculiar Brit actor's accent, from an old film or Tv series or something like that. I get:
"...tell the police"
"Now?"
"There's no point in waiting. We found (?) what we're looking for."
"What about...?"
"Just leave him there, Penny [the girl's name]. We'll fetch the police back and show them"
Good luck, if this is what they give you to learn spoken English.
Call the police
Now?
There's no point in waiting, We found what we're looking for
What about?
I must leave now Penny, Well fetch the police back and show them.
Good Heavens!!
I have no idea.
It took me at least a half a dozen replays to figure out what they were saying. In real life you rarely get the chance to rewind and listen to the conversation over and over again. In addition the guy has a strange, very clipped manner of speaking. If I were trying to learn spoken English, I'd hope they gave me examples that were a little closer to the mainstream.
They have perfectly normal British accents...they are just speaking fast....they only sound "clipped" I think, to some American ears.
I think people have the gist down well
I study on my own. I didn't know that conversation is so hard to understand even for an American native speaker.
I've listened it again and for example, i still don't get the "police". He seems to say "please". But anyway, it doesn't matter. Thanks to you I understand now.
hello,
I am not a native speaker either but this is what I would say:
_There's no point in finding ...
- I'm asleep and... etc
Hope this will help.
Yes, dear deb, you're right--we often find the Brits unintelligible. You Aussies, on the other hand, we find endearing in an "Oy, sheila, let's pile the sprogs in the ute and go get some wichetty grubs tucker" kind of way.
I don't have a problem with most British accents, just from certain regions I guess.
Maybe the equiv. of a Brit listening to someone from Chicago vs. Mississippi vs. the Bronx.