Building a page is taking a long time, I’m not getting too many hits! It seems like a good time to put out some more posts, as it seems I have been quite remiss, of late, I have a lot of interests right now but website design is a really new adventure. Looks like we’ll be okay for I have a lot of questions about how to progress, I’ll definitely persevere with the course, I’ve been getting quite a lot of requests about speaking English, from foreign students and my inbox tray is absolutely stacked right now with a whole load of very needy linguists strange as it may sound, at least they can contact me: that seems to be the only help available to actually support this subject, which is asking a lot for a beginner in Italian, I currently can do the work, but we’ll need to forge a few new words in other languages, and really hopefully converse both in our own and alien tongues. There is some oral to do before the skill really boots up. So you have to make it up as you go along to an extent. The teachers on the site do charge for one to one sessions which I’d never been a fan of, and they keep posting that, as I don’t charge obviously I need some help myself from time to time on English and I’m from here, though I did well at school in languages overall. It’s the kind of thing where your abilities are constantly being tested, there’s libraries to get through if you really value the skill, to discover various places and communities it’s really vital to have them, and spend time there when the pandemic is over.
There are differences in the way we communicate online though not many, far more similarities really you’ve got a volatile mix of dialects online right now, so it’s nice to have the freedom to compose in English really honing that skill to the fullest, letting pen pals have their say, then going back through key works and invaluable tomes such as Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights, classics, that really belong to us, and especially to those who are interested in English Fiction. So there’s plenty of reading to do and that’s the first thing I’d say to any potential students, is to be aware that the language is quite well understood and very well established over here in the lives of artists and writers in particular. I really need to broaden my horizons and to get one or two experiences under my belt that allow for a more broad discussion over the benefits of learning and education around which the various dialects are centred.
Doing the best I can online is really integral to our chances of ‘hitting it off’ or ‘hooking up’ as Tom Wolfe put it. I suggest if you want to score high marks in English oral you should seek out his books of which there are many and enjoy the ride, it’s quite a rip roaring backdrop to your initiation as an English user, in many ways some need a foil for all those awkward moments that seem to prevent us from chatting ‘mano e mano’ as Italians put it. So there’s plenty of examples of English culture and learning out there and anything you can get your hands on you should devour to begin with, with gusto. Which all means I don’t need to upbraid anybody for any reason really, it’s just that there are problems with the one on one system in English as it’s unrealistically expensive. A lot of the novels on sale cover these ideas in much more depth, no need for moderation most of the time in conversation works the same way as your own, but when you speak out of context it’s very tempting to add a long list of comments, it really gets messy.
The Observatory. 