#hovvells

[lamphous]

hovvells replied to your post:

ok how dARE U

ALL OF THESE R SO cc U T E

its both a blessing and a cure (jk its mOSTLY A CURSE I HATE MY BRAIN FOR DOING THIS)

[mandyjpg]

hovvells replied to your post: anonymous asked:I've always thoug...

he has rosacea so it makes sense!!! i love the idea of dan wearing full makeup tho (u KNOW he would look bomb as hell with eyeliner)

dan with eyeliner more like punch me in the fuckfng throat

[humangiraffe]

for hovvells

okay so this is gonna be kinda long (sorry i tend to over-explain myself) 

1.) how old were you when you started learning english? 

I was about 10, in primary school, we learned very basic stuff like counting, colors, animals stuff like that and simple sentences like "my name is x i am x years old i live in x" 

2.) did you find it difficult?  

not really? mostly because i started quite young and also society is quite anglicized you know what i mean? there's english words literally everywhere so even though you’re growing up in a non english speaking country, you get used very early on to seeing english words all the time and you know what some of them mean, so even though you’re learning a new language it’s not completely foreign does that make sense? plus verbs are sooooooooooo much easier in english then french like omg i’m not even gonna try to explain but yeah that’s part of what made learning english kinda easy

3.) how long did it take before you felt fluent in the language?

i’m gonna say about 3 or 4 years, although there’s a big gap between understanding fluently and communicating fluently. after 3 or 4 years, i could understand fluently, watch any movie/tv show/read any book in english and understand all of it except a few words of course (to this day i still find new words that i’d never heard before almost every single day, i’m 19 btw). communicating however is a different thing, it took a lot longer for me to be able to actually form sentences that make sense, and i don’t really know how to explain that, it just takes longer to speak english than it does to understand. i still don’t consider myself completely fluent because, as you can probably tell i’m not very eloquent (i can get my point across but it’s not very well said)

4.) did you learn through school or did you learn on your own/from a parent/etc?

School teaches you the basics, like irregular verbs, how to form sentences, some vocabulary, stuff like that. but school isn’t the best place to learn a language. i only had 4 hours of english class a week and that’s the same for most schools i think and that’s not enough, at all. so while school is useful for the technical stuff it’s not enough to be fluent. i mostly learned through watching a lot of movies/tv shows/youtube videos (fun fact : phil was the first youtuber i ever watched, in 2007/8 when i could barely understand anything he said, and to this day i still watch him and i like to think that phil kinda taught me how to speak english in a way)/being on the internet generally and interacting with people in english

5.) was english grammar + sentence structure hard to understand?

i’m gonna say english is generally easier than french, simple rules, not many exceptions to these rules, and the verb thing really helps, to any french kid conjugation is hell and many adults still struggle with it, compared to that english conjugation is a piece of cake. an english kid learning french would have a harder time than a french kid learning english.

 when it comes to sentence structure (by that i’m assuming you mean the way the words are arranged right?), it’s pretty much the same in english and french there are a few exceptions of course (english has a lot fewer words per sentence, for example we tend to use“the” and “that” a lot more frequently) but it’s not that much different. 

the hardest part about learning english is probably trying to speak like a native speaker would (not talking about accents here), because in the end you can know what words to use, in what order the words need to go, what verb/tense to use and still, the sentence would look wrong, it wouldn’t sound natural. it takes a lot of practice to sound natural and that’s why it’s hard, it’s a skill acquired overtime 

aahh this is so long sorry! but there you go i hope that helps! looking forward to your fic! :)

xx

[bondange]

my tumblr crush is hovvells :)

tbph i don’t blame you lmao i just followed her now but she’s super pretty wow

( hovvells )

tell me your tumblr crush on anon!  (✿ฺ◡ฺ‿ฺ◡ฺ)

[danhowcll]

bombay bicycle club!!!

Band: don’t listen to them | okay | good | great | amazing | flawless

Favourite Song: luna

Favourite member: ?? 

Seen them live? yes | no

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RATE: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

FOLLOWING: No, sorry | Yep! | I Am Now

SEND ME A BAND AND I WILL GIVE YOU A BLOGRATE!

[knowcci]

honestly even tho dan is such a grumpus i feel like he is SUPER grossly affectionate towards phil i.e. waking phil up by kissing all over his face and having 103849393 disgusting pet names for him

i knoooooow like we know he did it all the time in 2009/2010 and maybe now in 2015 because he’s an Adult™ he has to try and act mature and cut down on it and pretend he doesn’t enjoy seeing phil every minute of the day but lbr sometimes phil just. exists and dan’s like “fuck me up”

[plasticgrrrl]

dude ur blog is so heart eyes emoji!!!!!

aww thanks so much!! ur blog is great too!

[tessticle]

HBD TESS<333333!!

THANK YOU CALISTA!!!!<333333