Worst nightmare - Daughter Speaking American!

[Neeranam]

On speaking to my daughter today, she said, "when I graduate school, I want to get outta Thailand".

 

Getting out of Thailand is fine and I understand that, but "when I graduate school" is incorrect where I come from, but she insists it's what her US teacher says. Is this proper US English? "Outta" is fair enough, unless it was in writing. 

 

Good to be exposed to different English types, or is it?

 

I suppose we all want our offspring to have an accent similar to ours, or at least from the country where we come from.

[cmsally]

I think her "US teacher " has some questionable grammar skills !

[uncleP]

4 minutes ago, cmsally said:

I think her "US teacher " has some questionable grammar skills !

All "US teachers " have questionable grammar  skills ????

[tonray]

I recommend 14 year quarantine back with grandma upcountry...that will purge all the "American" 'outta' her for sure...and most of the Queen's English too.

[tonray]

Just now, uncleP said:

All "US teachers " have questionable grammar  skills ????

I think your thinking is 'coloured' by too much fish and french fries...have some Lays potato chips and call me in the morning.

[Lacessit]

Send her to Australia when you can, we don't speak through our noses there.

[Neeranam]

3 minutes ago, tonray said:

I recommend 14 year quarantine back with grandma upcountry...that will purge all the "American" 'outta' her for sure...and most of the Queen's English too.

One gran lives in Edinburgh and the other Bangkok.

[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

Send her to Australia when you can, we don't speak through our noses there.

She's been there 3 times already, and might be going to study in Melbourne.

[spiekerjozef]

I feel sorry for you. That horrible US accent...

[Neeranam]

12 minutes ago, cmsally said:

I think her "US teacher " has some questionable grammar skills !

What I thought, but wasn't sure. I learned proper English, going to the same school as Lord Byron, although a few years later. 

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/04/graduate-school.html

[Pilotman]

English is a second language to most Americans. 

[Puchaiyank]

Get outta here!  Surely you musta be kidding...

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, Neeranam said:

She's been there 3 times already, and might be going to study in Melbourne.

Right now, not without 14 days quarantine. I expect that will go on for another 6 months.

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, uncleP said:

All "US teachers " have questionable grammar  skills ????

Now just wait a Kentucky moment, questionable or not the Queens english.  I say color, and you spell it colour........so color me now properly learned from the true English folk....????

[Jingthing]

Americans don't say when I graduate school. Rather we would say 

 

After I graduate from school 

 

or

 

When I graduate from school 

 

or actually more commonly 

 

you could just leave out any mention of school. 

 

School is implied by the word graduate. 

 

Also Americans if they were to mention school would usually be more specific. 

 

As in

 

high school 

 

college 

 

graduate school 

 

cosmetology school 

 

bartending academy 

 

 

[worgeordie]

Your lucky, my daughter thinks she is Japanese, has been there

a couple of times, buys Japanese makeup,shampoos Etc, likes

Japanese food,watches Japanese soaps,and speaks,reads and writes

Japanese.

Regards Worgeordie

[2long]

I bet you it's more than her school teacher. Let's face it, she won't get many hours with the teacher per week, and possibly not pay that much attention if she's already bilingual.

My 15 year old doesn't have much of an accent, but used to. My 11 year old has what I call a YouTube accent. More American than I would like, but there's not a great deal we can do about it. They were both born in Bangkok and have lived here all their lives. We go to England every year when possible. Only staying there for at least a year will purge the Americanisms. But that's not an option for us.

I'm grateful (and proud) that they are truly bilingual, as some other half-half kids I know have appalling English, which I blame on the fathers not spending enough time with them from an early age and for as much as possible through the developing years.

[Neeranam]

Just now, Pilotman said:

English is a second language to most Americans. 

I would not allow her to go to a US university. Scotland has arguably the best schools/unis in the world. Even the Queen of England sent her sons to school there, and her grandson, Wullie. 

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, Puchaiyank said:

Get outta here!  Surely you musta be kidding...

Musta be kidding sounds Italian. 

[Neeranam]

Just now, worgeordie said:

Your lucky, my daughter thinks she is Japanese, has been there

a couple of times, buys Japanese makeup,shampoos Etc, likes

Japanese food,watches Japanese soaps,and speaks,reads and writes

Japanese.

Regards Worgeordie

Mine is more Korean, and taught herself that language. Also speaks Japanese/Chinese.

[Denim]

When she comes home and says :

 

' G'day dad , where are we going this 'arvo ? "

 

Then you have real problems.

[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Musta be kidding sounds Italian. 

 

[Neeranam]

Just now, Denim said:

When she comes home and says :

 

' G'day dad , where are we going this 'arvo ? "

 

Then you have real problems.

Nah, they say "how're you going?".

[ThailandRyan]

2 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Your lucky, my daughter thinks she is Japanese, has been there

a couple of times, buys Japanese makeup,shampoos Etc, likes

Japanese food,watches Japanese soaps,and speaks,reads and writes

Japanese.

Regards Worgeordie

So then she likes the US Television show CHIP's, like all Japanese do.....

[holy cow cm]

Aint nothing to get all wound up about and have yer hormones in a tailspin.

[jadee]

I think it depends on which school she's going to - US schools hold graduation ceremonies at the end of high school (some hold Kindergarten graduations <deleted>!) so it's fine for her to say 'when i graduate' - but obviously British school don't have that tradition, British kids would say 'when I graduate from uni' (Uni is Aussie slang for university). 

 

If it makes you feel any better, spare a thought for all the American parents whose kids watch so much Peppa Pig that they start speaking with that God-awful Peppa Pig accent (whichever godforsaken part of the UK that's from) .."Dad-dauyyy!" 

[Neeranam]

3 minutes ago, 2long said:

I bet you it's more than her school teacher. Let's face it, she won't get many hours with the teacher per week, and possibly not pay that much attention if she's already bilingual.

My 15 year old doesn't have much of an accent, but used to. My 11 year old has what I call a YouTube accent. More American than I would like, but there's not a great deal we can do about it. They were both born in Bangkok and have lived here all their lives. We go to England every year when possible. Only staying there for at least a year will purge the Americanisms. But that's not an option for us.

I'm grateful (and proud) that they are truly bilingual, as some other half-half kids I know have appalling English, which I blame on the fathers not spending enough time with them from an early age and for as much as possible through the developing years.

Indeed, some "half-caste kids'" English is dreadful.

My kids go to English programs. Too many US teachers.

[Neeranam]

2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

So then she likes the US Television show CHIP's, like all Japanese do.....

Don't think so, but  shouldn't that be "french fries"?

[Neeranam]

2 minutes ago, jadee said:

If it makes you feel any better, spare a thought for all the American parents whose kids watch so much Peppa Pig that they start speaking with that God-awful Peppa Pig accent (whichever godforsaken part of the UK that's from) .."Dad-dauyyy!" 

But "Miss rabbit" was inspirational, having at least 20 jobs!

[tonray]

16 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

One gran lives in Edinburgh and the other Bangkok.

Then get her in a boarding school in Glasgow where she can learn an entirely new language ...ha ha ha