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RE: The Dictionary

in Freewriters2 years ago

I love English, since I was in junior high school my parents put me in a course called "Victory English Course" which is located in the middle of our small town.

I love grammar, and I got good grades in my final exams.

Oh yeah... I also won a Scrabble competition when I was in high school, as a prize I was given an Oxford Dictionary.

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By the way, do you also like to play with this arrangement of words @jiva34?

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 2 years ago 

Wow, you won an dictionary, an English one bit your English isn't UK English 🤔

I like Scrabble as well but we play it in Dutch. They games are not for sale in English.

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 2 years ago 

Here in Indonesia, the English taught is more geared towards American accents.

Honestly, I'm not good at spoken English, and that's why I love #wewrite.

 2 years ago 

That's amazing. For most people English is very difficult. But it is necessary since the English speaking nations, especially the US are so influential.

 2 years ago 

That is not the reason. "we" voted for a world language and that is why English is spoken.

The influence would be a good reason to avoid knkwing the language. It would make the world more peaceful.

If it comes to films and so on most countries do not show it in English at all but their own language (not very helpful if you want to learn a language).

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 2 years ago 

It may be that English at least as it spoken in the US has been influenced by the "melting pot" in the US. People coming from everywhere else bringing words with them over the few hundred years has become part of the vocabulary.
Looking at a dictionary we can see the roots of the words are traced out to many different sources.
US English and British English are a little different. Even the spellings vary. Similar enough to get by without a translator though.

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