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AK47
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Non Americans and British?

What type of English do you learn or taught back in school?British or American?

Please state from which country you came from.

My Country learn British English but some of us are at the wrong track and spoke English,The American way.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I come from Seychelles and we learn British English although most of the young people are imitating the Americans. I hate the American accent.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Milan Kundera The humorous tale, marvelous Lightness of Being, the e book of Laughter and Forgetting and distinctly lots something he has written. between the topic concerns I even have with analyzing translated novels is they're basically as good by way of fact the translator. i can not think of attempting to examine a lot of my well-liked novels in translation, by way of fact how do you translate large prose as something yet mediocre prose? I won't say each and every translated novel suffers from this, yet many do. So Kundera, his strengths lie interior the techniques he conveys and the thoughts. perchance it extremely is merely by way of fact he now writes in a 2d language, French, from his unique Czech, yet i don't experience the language barrier when I examine his books. Oh and in case you're doing a paper on him, you have a particularly exciting existence, which incorporates some extremely recent allegations approximately his informing for the duration of his college days. yet another plus is that even in the journey that your instructor would not like his novels for my area, they have maximum in all possibility examine a number of his fact on contemporary writing.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    American

    Philippines!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I am Australian...we learn British.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I learnt British English...as I'm British.

    I'm from good ol' Yorkshire. ;)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'm from England, so obviously proper English, not american english, as we all know they can't spell for ****.

  • 1 decade ago

    there's only one and thats the Queens english-- England

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