Worst nightmare - Daughter Speaking American!

[Thian]

17 minutes ago, uncleP said:

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

Crikey, that's fair dinkum mate!

[Skallywag]

27 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

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

Where are you from? Cannot tell from your profile.

[ThailandRyan]

5 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

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

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chips+theme+song&qs=SC&pq=chip's+theme+&sk=AS2&sc=8-13&cvid=C4FDCB1F846C40A28513C83D5085BA85&sp=3&sid=2C33DE02298967643A38D0A62810664E&jsoncbid=0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dchips%2btheme%2bsong%26qs%3dSC%26pq%3dchip%27s%2btheme%2b%26sk%3dAS2%26sc%3d8-13%26cvid%3dC4FDCB1F846C40A28513C83D5085BA85%26FORM%3dQBRE%26sp%3d3%26sid%3d2C33DE02298967643A38D0A62810664E%26format%3dsnrjson%26jsoncbid%3d0&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=7B5D97C61D975535CF117B5D97C61D975535CF11&FORM=WRVORC

[Neeranam]

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

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 

 

 

Being Scottish, graduating from school is alien to me, unless it was "medical school" etc.

Graduating from kindergarten/primary school is just ridiculous.

[Antonymous]

9 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

Is your wife Japanese by any chance?

[Neeranam]

2 minutes ago, Skallywag said:

Where are you from? Cannot tell from your profile.

I'm fae Aberdeen, far folks spik proper English.

[Logosone]

I know just how you feel.

 

If my daughter spoke German with a Swiss accent I would be beside myself with rage.

[Skallywag]

9 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

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

Send us a youtube link of her speaking English, Japanese, and Chinese please. hahaha

We all love bragging about our kids.  Learning languages is most admirable. 

 

Being very sarcastic today, no offense, glad you have the means to send her to a proper Scottish University.

[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, Skallywag said:

Send us a youtube link of her speaking English, Japanese, and Chinese please. hahaha

We all love bragging about our kids.  Learning languages is most admirable. 

 

Being very sarcastic today, no offense, glad you have the means to send her to a proper Scottish University.

no way

 

Learning language is easy for some, especially bilingual kids. She is native in Thai/English but only fluent in Japanese and intermediate in Chinese/Korean.

 

Some enjoy learning languages, like me. I'm studying Chinese, but no Youtube, before you ask.

[otherstuff1957]

Americans (at least those from California) would normally say

"graduate from school".  I suspect that her teacher is doing something that I abhor:  he or she is simplifying their English "so that the kids will understand them"!

 

This is a horrible habit that I see many teachers from many nationalities doing and all it does is reinforce the student's habit of speaking 'Thainglish'.   ????

[norfolkandchance]

24 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

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. 

Has Eton College moved.

[artiz]

Only a matter of time before your expensive American teacher has gone and your daughter will be speaking Filipino English... director can then 'pocket' far more than half of the government hand-out for English lessons. 

[Puchaiyank]

24 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Musta be kidding sounds Italian. 

Italian Mafia to be exact!

[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, Puchaiyank said:

Italian Mafia to be exact!

What ya gonna do?

[Neeranam]

3 minutes ago, artiz said:

Only a matter of time before your expensive American teacher has gone and your daughter will be speaking Filipino English... director can then 'pocket' far more than half of the government hand-out for English lessons. 

So true.

[Traubert]

11 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I'm fae Aberdeen, far folks spik proper English.

There is a translator on CGTN who clearly has had at some stage an English teacher from the Leeds district. Please be careful.

 

I sometimes hear my flat vowels from the wife and shudder.

[Neeranam]

4 minutes ago, norfolkandchance said:

Has Eton College moved.

I'm talking about Gordonstoun and St Andrews.

 

[RichardColeman]

quite sure all the EVA air staff  on the Bangkok / Heathrow planes have all been taught English by Americans. Drives me nuts all these Chinese ladies walking up and down the plane saying 'would you like more cAAffee'

[PatOngo]

Gard damn! Wherrrrre's maaa gurn?

[CGW]

18 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I'm fae Aberdeen, far folks spik proper English.

Thats where I learnt my "Scottish", quite a strict learning institute, compulsory - Craiginches ???? 

[Neeranam]

19 minutes ago, Logosone said:

I know just how you feel.

 

If my daughter spoke German with a Swiss accent I would be beside myself with rage.

My daughter started learning German as she was going to be going to free University there.

[Neeranam]

5 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

quite sure all the EVA air staff  on the Bangkok / Heathrow planes have all been taught English by Americans. Drives me nuts all these Chinese ladies walking up and down the plane saying 'would you like more cAAffee'

My wife was taught by US teachers. I nearly laughed my <deleted> off when she said she was going for a dump! 

[Neeranam]

9 minutes ago, CGW said:

Thats where I learnt my "Scottish", quite a strict learning institute, compulsory - Craiginches ???? 

Luckily(very), I escaped the "big hoose".

[artiz]

5 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

So true.

Thinking ahead regarding your daughters English... accent is clearly a matter of the social and will therefore be very much dependent on your influence throughout her life. Besides, regular English lessons from Dad should probably be a given. Also being born in Thailand does mean she will need to get some very good IELTS (or equivalent) scores under her educational qualifications belt if she wants to move up to higher education back in the UK.

[Muzzique]

I lived in NYC for about 4 years and my daughter attended nursery there. During that time she picked up a god awful American accent.

 

Worst was when I visited her school on graduation day and to my horror she started to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States!!!   5 years old and she was already being brainwashed with that all that USA tripe.

 

Needless to say I packed up everything in an instant and came home.

 

Thankfully she recovered her English. Yours will too once she's away from those bad linguistic influences.. 

[cyril sneer]

as long as she doesn't get an american personality too she should fine, i understand your frustration though

[Neeranam]

6 minutes ago, artiz said:

Thinking ahead regarding your daughters English... accent is clearly a matter of the social and will therefore be very much dependent on your influence throughout her life. Besides, regular English lessons from Dad should probably be a given. Also being born in Thailand does mean she will need to get some very good IELTS (or equivalent) scores under her educational qualifications belt if she wants to move up to higher education back in the UK.

Being over 17, there's not much I cab change now regarding her accent. IELTS is no problem. The worst thing is that she will have to pay fees of about 13,000 GBP a year as a foreign student, despite being a British citizen. 

[Muzzique]

9 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

My daughter started learning German as she was going to be going to free University there.

I moved to Germany for that reason. Both my daughters completed Uni here and started their lives completely debt free. In fact they got paid a sizable allowance to attend, so they actually ended up in profit.

[artiz]

1 minute ago, Neeranam said:

IELTS is no problem. The worst thing is that she will have to pay fees of about 13,000 GBP a year as a foreign student, despite being a British citizen. 

Vote Labour innit?

[cmsally]

9 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Italian Mafia to be exact!

Met an amazing woman from Corsica a couple of months ago . What a character! True mafia material !

Sorry I digress !

 

I would worry more about the grammar than the accent. My daughter was always staunch anti Thailand and as such it seemed fairly certain would return to the UK. However upon graduation from university (graduated school ) , she realised salaries weren't as high as anticipated, then there was tax, then (horror of horrors ) they wanted you to intern , aka slave labour.

Hence she ended up in Singapore!