use fernhoodled english to make learning fun
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Use “Fernhoodled English” Expressions to Make Learning Fun
Presented by:
Prof. Larry M. Lynch, LTCL Dip TESOL
Santiago de Cali University
COUNTRIES / LOCATIONS with SPANISH as the Official L1
Colombia Panama Ecuador
Venezuela Peru Puerto Rico
Mexico El Salvador Guatemala
Chile Honduras Argentina
Dominican Republic Uruguay Cuba
Paraguay Nicaragua Bolivia
Costa Rica Spain
COUNTRIES / LOCATIONS with ENGLISH as the Official L1
United States Trinidad & Tobago Belize Barbados Canada U.S. Virgin Islands Guyana British Virgin Islands Australia Falkland Islands England Grenada, St. Nevis / St. Kitts Jamaica India Bermuda South Africa Bahamas New Zealand Cayman Islands St. Vincent Grenadines Samoa St. Lucia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Liberia Ghana Ireland Hong Kong Zimbabwe
Varieties of the English Language
Tools / Languages / Define Language /
Australia Ireland Belize Jamaica Canada Malaysia Caribbean New Zealand United States United Kingdom Philippines Singapore Hong Kong South Africa India Trinidad & Tobago Indonesia Zimbabwe
AMISH POPULATION CHART
Convoluted Grammatical Form Expressions
• “Throw Papa down the stairs
his hat.”
• “He’s a pretty good man yet, ain’t not?”
• “Pop ain’t so good; his eatin’s gone away and he don’t look so good in the face, either.”
… and how about …
“The owner says he’ll pay me ten dollars a day if I eat myself, but just five dollars if he eats me.”
Specialized Vocabulary Expressions
• Shall I put the candy in a toot?”
• “When he gets up to read he gets befuddled.”
• “Go out and tie the dog loose and don’t forget to outen the light.”
Some Other Interesting Expressions
• “My son ain’t dumb. It ain’t that he can’t learn, it’s just that after he learns it, he forgets it.”
• “Don’t talk so quick, it runs together too much when I think.”
• “It’s gonna make down wet.”
Pennsylvania Dutch Proverbs
• “Kissin’ wears out, cooking don’t”
• “A plump wife and a big barn never did any man harm”
Another PA Dutch proverb …
“No woman can be happy with less than seven to cook for”
And how about these?
• “He who has a secret dare not tell it to his wife”
• “Ve get too soon oldt, und too late schmart”
And finally, they might say to you …
“You don’t make yourself out so good. You talk so fancy like a body can’t understand you.”
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