#eal

[incognitopolls]

If you grew up in a country where English is NOT the dominant language, but you ALSO speak English, what's the primary way you learned English?

I was raised/grew up speaking both languages

I had mandatory English classes in school

I was interested and taught myself

I was interested and I or someone else paid for classes outside of school

I had to learn it (e.g. for work, access to media, etc) and taught myself

I had to learn it (e.g. for work, access to media, etc) and paid for classes

Another way

English is one of the dominant languages in the country I grew up in, show resul

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[finalfantasyvii]

tbf he was real for this

[jasontoddspussy]

leopard selkie jason (aged jaybin) giving stalker kid tim pre-robin penguins bcs jaybin is confused why this dumbass weird looking seal isn't hunting and eating on its own send tweet

[angloirishnolanist]

I'm back again on my annoyance over the subtitles butching Ilya's speech, and my oral fixation by proxy type love of Ilya's English... Now TV started off well with being pretty good with accurately having the caption match Ilya's English but it went downhill by about half way through the first episode. After Shane blows him in the hotel, he says "well, was fun" but the captions correct it to "well, this was fun". There must be a word for it, for the ESL erasure or something.

Although, in watching it again and this time with full subtitles unlike the ones on Dailymotion, I did notice even more how Ilya's speech changes.

I noted before, he does start using more typical English abbreviations - "it's" and "you're" whereas before he had consistently said "is" and "you are" - but his accent also softens too. He gets softer on his V/W pronunciation - "ven ve beat you" was particularly pronounced while, by episode 6, his W sound on "wolf bird" is a lot closer to the English W, along with adding more As and "the" into his sentencing structures - "you are having panic attack" is so recognisable, but in episode 6 his sentence is well structured in English for "on the cover of the fucking game", with those "the" placements being added in.

It's great on Connor and Jacob's part - they recognised Ilya's improved English speaking skills well, without any further jokes like the one in episode 2 in the bathroom with Shane, other than the little bit of Shane waking him up and talking a thousand miles an hour in the middle of the night!

But I do love that Ilya (or perhaps it's a Connor trait?) consistently eye tracks when people speak to him. It could be a sign of emotion, but it could also be read as Ilya really focusing to get a grasp of what is being said and make sense of it. It's a subtle but powerful little idiosyncratic motion that just elevates the idea that he's ESL

I love it.

But the captions need fixing, Sky!

[garbagechocolate]

Doodle page

[jinsakaiboobies]

bringing back the holy bible (jin sakai autism diagnosis)

[danikatze]

My mother paints little rocks for a local cemetery, for people to put on graves or to take home as a sort of memento. I helped her yesterday, until I found a rock that looked to me like a happy eal. It turned out so cute hahah. (It could've been a turtle too)

[statictelevisionpunk]

drew oceaan creatures first was more of someting just poped my mind

the rest are real animals