Bloody hell

[Britta]

This is from my time in the UK in 1990 
German Erasmus Student: Bloody hell!
British colleague: Hey!
Me: What?
British colleague: He's not supposed to say that!
Me: But you say it all the time!
British colleague: But he's a bloody foreigner! He's supposed to speak proper English.

Said British colleague now has teenage kids of his own, I suppose he has learned the hard way, that kids don't do what you say, they do what you do.

[admin]

 

[marvin93]

I'm not sure if it is directly related to the topic but as a very uncommon opinion, I think language acquisition does not happen the best in its natural environment all the time as people usually accept it as a general fact. Not only kids but any language learner tend to speak as a native does which can lead to major problems during the learning process. Sometimes it's better to have a teacher who has learned the language in the same way the students are learning to look at the situation from the same perspective as the students do. Two years ago I bought a property in Lisbon and decided to have some Portuguese classes in my free time. Luckily, I had like the best Portuguese teacher who was an American expat living in Lisbon and he helped me a lot during my learning process showing the most common mistakes especially the English learners do while trying to speak Portuguese and so on.

[admin]

Good point - especially during the early learning process.