Searching british boy under 18 to help me with my english and my flight skills

[Hecke]

Hi guys,

i am a 16 year old german and I am searching for a british boy who is nearly my age and would like to get in contact with a german.

One the one hand i urgently want/and definately need to improve my spoken english which is poor for my age and btw i also do need somone to help me improve my flying skills in Il-2 1946 which are too bad^^.

I own a headset and i have skype, teamspeak, ... or what you want me to use. (you need this, too ;) )

If you are interested please let me know.


Bye, Heck

[Trumper]

:) I don't wish to upset you but very few British youngsters can actually speak English themselves.
I feel it may be better for you to join a squad,that way you should be safer online [never assume the person you are talking to is really that person] and also you will learn more skills from various sources.
Good luck.

[Hecke]

really they can't speak their mother countriy's language?

I didn't mean people younger than 15 and a squad is not what i want.

[ATAG_Dutch]

:) I don't wish to upset you but very few British youngsters can actually speak English themselves.
I feel it may be better for you to join a squad,that way you should be safer online [never assume the person you are talking to is really that person] and also you will learn more skills from various sources.
Good luck.

Ha Ha! +1!:grin:
Unfortunately Hecke, Trumper is quite correct.
Young English people use many slang words such as 'Yo Blood' when they mean hello, and 'last' when they mean bad.
'Bad' when they mean good, 'sound' also means good.
If you were unfortunate enough to pair up with someone from Liverpool, you would be in big trouble!
I've lived in Liverpool for 25 years and still don't understand them.
Good Luck!

[zapatista]

[never assume the person you are talking to is really that person]


lol i thought the exact same thing when i saw the "looking for boy under 18" :)

its a very badly phrased request, and indeed better for him to join a squad (presuming his request is legitimate)

[jameson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KnZbZbdJJg&feature=related

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

Ha Ha! +1!:grin:
Unfortunately Hecke, Trumper is quite correct.
Young English people use many slang words such as 'Yo Blood' when they mean hello, and 'last' when they mean bad.
'Bad' when they mean good, 'sound' also means good.
If you were unfortunate enough to pair up with someone from Liverpool, you would be in big trouble!
I've lived in Liverpool for 25 years and still don't understand them.
Good Luck!

LMAO, had a good laugh at some of the responses. Sadly, its true......And as per usual its all Americas fault (lol....Jk :grin:). 'Fo'sho Cuz, a'ight?' Thanks to the wonderful phenomenon that is 'Gangsta Rap' some British kids want to be Tupac Shakur and shoot all their peers in the face rather than go to school, then die at the age of 12 because its 'Da Thug Lyfe, word up homez'. :grin:

If you think he'd have trouble with a Scouser, imagine if he befriended a Geordie or Glaswegian, lol. :grin: I have to say though, bizarrely when I have spoken broad Geordie dialect to Scandinavians (particularly Norwegians) for a laugh, they have understood me perfectly well. Its a bizarre smorgasbord of Old English, Norse, Anglo-Saxon and some Frisian! And its geet canny if yor knaar worra mean. Mind thor bairns, I'm gannin Hyem :grin:

British comedy satire show "The Day Today" skit on Gangsta Rap...."Uzi Lover"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sxZ4tsp8gc&feature=related

Seriously though Hecke laddie, its likely if a British kid is into IL-2 he will probably have half a brain and be at least semi literate. Hopefully. They are just pulling your leg (kidding) really, not all British kids are like this. Good luck with getting yourself a British pal (had a German penpal when I was at School funnily enough!) Your written English is very good Hecke, don't worry about it. British people are relatively ignorant compared to continentals when it comes to foreign languages (though I know a little French and German, enough to get to the pub anyway....which is all you need really lol.)

[Hecke]

Well... what a pity.


Maybe my written english is ok but it's all about my spoken english.

Actually I don't mind how old the british guy is, but I thought with someone of my age it would be easier for me.


So I cancel the age limit.

Everyone that is interested and speaks proper english without slang is welcomed. Clan's still are not what i am searching for.

[Friendly_flyer]

The hint about joining a squad is a very good one. Find an online squad with British pilots and apply. See for instance link in my signature.

[BadAim]

You'd be surprised at the makeup of the average IL2 squad. The average age in my squad is probably 40 or so spread across a spectrum from late teens to late sixties. There are also many different styles of squads out there to, from fairly strict military style, many patterned after real squadrons/groups to very loosely organized squads with little discipline, who are mainly looking to have fun. (and can find world class virtual pilots to mentor you in most of them).

The only downside could be that many squads stick with an 18+ rule, but you might find one to fit your needs that doesn't or is willing to make an exception.

[Hecke]

Although this is the IL-2 forum i don't want to become the best pilot.

I search for somebody for "everything".


Well, maybe some of you guys know forums or websites for such a special purpose, to connect Germans with english people.


Bye, Hecke

[IceFire]

Suggestion:

Join the UK-Dedicated servers sometime (Read the rules before you do anything else :)) and set yourself up on the TeamSpeak server. There are two servers that get most of the traffic these days and they have different levels of difficulty so you can find something you're looking for. The folks on there mostly speak English (although I hear all sorts of languages from time to time) so it'll be a good way to immerse yourself in the language. You will hear English as spoken by people with several different accents and ranging from native english speakers to very well spoken second or third language speakers as well.

Several members are German so that may help too if you get stuck.

[Xilon_x]

english lenguagge is simple but also complicated to abreviation works and double sense of work.
i am italian and for learnenglish you training to chat online and write in the forum and step by step you learn english and correct your errors.
is difficoult for english peoples learn italian lenguagge this lenguagge derive from LATINO and 1 lenguagge speak in the world is SPANISH also this derive from LATINO. also ENGLISH have latino derivance remember romanus emperor go to brittain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain.

[jg27_mc]

...also ENGLISH have latino derivance...

errr... Not true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language

Cheers

[Feuerfalke]

errr... Not true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language

Cheers

errr... did you read your link?

The languages of Germanic peoples gave rise to the English language (the Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Jutes and possibly the Franks, who traded and fought with the Latin-speaking Roman Empire in the centuries-long process of the Germanic peoples' expansion into Western Europe during the Migration Period). Some Latin words for common objects entered the vocabulary of these Germanic peoples before their arrival in Britain and their subsequent formation of England.

The introduction of Christianity added another wave of Latin and some Greek words.

[Trumper]

I have the privilege of knowing many "non English " people and i have to say that their English grammar and speech is technically alot better than the average kid[child] born native in this country.Thank god for spell check LOL :)
Our language is so variant from one small area to another , a matter of miles for example a native from Essex will sound different from someone in Cambridgeshire 50 miles apart and the person from Cambridgeshire will sound totally different to someone from Norfolk,Suffolk also only a handful of miles apart.
Ironically you would probably learn better English from a Dutch person or someone from a Scandinavian country that is fluent in the correct English.

[Friendly_flyer]

is difficoult for english peoples learn italian lenguagge this lenguagge derive from LATINO and 1 lenguagge speak in the world is SPANISH also this derive from LATINO.


I am a Norwegian, so I speak one of the Germanic languages. Having a Spanish wife, I can very much vouch for what Xilon is saying.

[jg27_mc]

errr... did you read your link?

Actually I did… One thing is to suffer influence from other linguistic branches (e.g. introduction of new vocabulary/words) - That’s what happens in our days with the introduction of English vocabulary in several languages. (e.g. Portuguese)

The other is to have a language like the English that clearly comes from a Germanic branch and has nothing to do with Latin.

Being that said, English doesn’t have “...latino derivance...” like Xilon_X stated.

Cheers

[baronWastelan]

english lenguagge is simple but also complicated to abreviation works and double sense of work.
i am italian and for learnenglish you training to chat online and write in the forum and step by step you learn english and correct your errors.
is difficoult for english peoples learn italian lenguagge this lenguagge derive from LATINO and 1 lenguagge speak in the world is SPANISH also this derive from LATINO. also ENGLISH have latino derivance remember romanus emperor go to brittain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain.

I learn some new works here. Thanks you!! :grin:

[Xilon_x]

tank you to english and american for respond to my topic my video my idea my question and tank you because i learn english and translate in italian tank you als to all member russian norvegian francese spanish ecc.ec.

[swiss]

errr... did you read your link?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEuropeanTree.svg


;)


BTT: Judging by the title of the thread, Hecke must have had a very protected childhood. :D

[Hecke]

protected childhood?

Ein Gschmarri :)

[Yambretta]

Blimey! English is indeed a varied bacon sandwich wiv many fawms ov accen' awer slang.
Yaaahr best snipe as uvvers 'ave mun'ioned is ter log onto a Teamspeak server in HyperLobby.
Many people only use one server so you'll become known wiv 'em plus most'll offer free advice. Nuff said, yeah?

.......................

Ermmm I meant ;-)

English is indeed a varied language with many forms of accent or slang.
Your best chance as others have mentioned is to log onto a Teamspeak server in HyperLobby.
Many people only use one server so you will become known with them plus most will offer free advice.