Is There a Website/Book for Migrants to Know What to Say in Different Occassions?
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Is There a Website/Book for Migrants to Know What to Say in Different Occassions?
Hi everybody,
English is not my mother tongue. Last week I went to a barber and realised how frustrated I might be in such situations. The barber asked me how to cut my hair and I didn't have a single clue what to tell her. (I knew what I wanted but didn't know how to say it in English! )
I am not weak in English. If someone asks me to write an essay about a complex issue like "the effects of the global financial crisis on the divorce numbers", I am fully capable to do so!! But when it comes to day to day activities like " going to barber, going to butcher , booking a flight etc... I am really feel myself limited in words and phrases I can use! This has been always annoyed me.
So I am looking for a book or website or any other source of info to strengthen this weakness of mine.
Can anyone help me to find such source?
Thanks in anticipation fellas!
English is not my mother tongue. Last week I went to a barber and realised how frustrated I might be in such situations. The barber asked me how to cut my hair and I didn't have a single clue what to tell her. (I knew what I wanted but didn't know how to say it in English! )
I am not weak in English. If someone asks me to write an essay about a complex issue like "the effects of the global financial crisis on the divorce numbers", I am fully capable to do so!! But when it comes to day to day activities like " going to barber, going to butcher , booking a flight etc... I am really feel myself limited in words and phrases I can use! This has been always annoyed me.
So I am looking for a book or website or any other source of info to strengthen this weakness of mine.
Can anyone help me to find such source?
Thanks in anticipation fellas!
Last edited by BARDI77; Jun 25th 2010 at 2:02 am.
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Re: Is There a Website/Book for Migrants to Know What to Say in Different Occassions?
dictionary?
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I am not looking for words. I am actually looking for suitable sentences to use in various day by day situations.
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Get English-English dictionary, you surely find phrase patterns there.
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Hi everybody,
English is not my mother tongue. Last week I went to a barber and realised how frustrated I might be in such situations. The barber asked me how to cut my hair and I didn't have a single clue what to tell her. (I knew what I wanted but didn't know how to say it in English! )
I am not weak in English. If someone asks me to write an essay about a complex issue like "the effects of the global financial crisis on the divorce numbers", I am fully capable to do so!! But when it comes to day to day activities like " going to barber, going to butcher , booking a flight etc... I am really feel myself limited in words and phrases I can use! This has been always annoyed me.
So I am looking for a book or website or any other source of info to strengthen this weakness of mine.
Can anyone help me to find such source?
Thanks in anticipation fellas!
English is not my mother tongue. Last week I went to a barber and realised how frustrated I might be in such situations. The barber asked me how to cut my hair and I didn't have a single clue what to tell her. (I knew what I wanted but didn't know how to say it in English! )
I am not weak in English. If someone asks me to write an essay about a complex issue like "the effects of the global financial crisis on the divorce numbers", I am fully capable to do so!! But when it comes to day to day activities like " going to barber, going to butcher , booking a flight etc... I am really feel myself limited in words and phrases I can use! This has been always annoyed me.
So I am looking for a book or website or any other source of info to strengthen this weakness of mine.
Can anyone help me to find such source?
Thanks in anticipation fellas!
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Re: Is There a Website/Book for Migrants to Know What to Say in Different Occassions?
Go to the pub, sit down, sink 5 beers and have a chat with the blokes next to you. You will be well versed after for almost any situation in Australia.
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Re: Is There a Website/Book for Migrants to Know What to Say in Different Occassions?
Hi everybody,
English is not my mother tongue. Last week I went to a barber and realised how frustrated I might be in such situations. The barber asked me how to cut my hair and I didn't have a single clue what to tell her. (I knew what I wanted but didn't know how to say it in English! )
I am not weak in English. If someone asks me to write an essay about a complex issue like "the effects of the global financial crisis on the divorce numbers", I am fully capable to do so!! But when it comes to day to day activities like " going to barber, going to butcher , booking a flight etc... I am really feel myself limited in words and phrases I can use! This has been always annoyed me.
So I am looking for a book or website or any other source of info to strengthen this weakness of mine.
Can anyone help me to find such source?
Thanks in anticipation fellas!
English is not my mother tongue. Last week I went to a barber and realised how frustrated I might be in such situations. The barber asked me how to cut my hair and I didn't have a single clue what to tell her. (I knew what I wanted but didn't know how to say it in English! )
I am not weak in English. If someone asks me to write an essay about a complex issue like "the effects of the global financial crisis on the divorce numbers", I am fully capable to do so!! But when it comes to day to day activities like " going to barber, going to butcher , booking a flight etc... I am really feel myself limited in words and phrases I can use! This has been always annoyed me.
So I am looking for a book or website or any other source of info to strengthen this weakness of mine.
Can anyone help me to find such source?
Thanks in anticipation fellas!
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Beginners Australian - Words and Phrases:
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"Mate" (in all it's wonderfully subtle forms)
"Ahhhhh yeeeeehhh"
"Nah, but yeeeehhh"
"No Worries"
"She'll Be Right"
"Good Thanks!"
"It's Great, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else"
"They should love it or leave"
"You think this is hot, you should have been here in <insert year>"
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They should last you for 5 years then you may have to branch out into the advanced section.
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"Mate" (in all it's wonderfully subtle forms)
"Ahhhhh yeeeeehhh"
"Nah, but yeeeehhh"
"No Worries"
"She'll Be Right"
"Good Thanks!"
"It's Great, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else"
"They should love it or leave"
"You think this is hot, you should have been here in <insert year>"
-----------------------------
They should last you for 5 years then you may have to branch out into the advanced section.
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Re: Is There a Website/Book for Migrants to Know What to Say in Different Occassions?
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Re: Is There a Website/Book for Migrants to Know What to Say in Different Occassions?
But as the old saying goes . . . "a picture paints a thousand words" . . . therefore I humbly recommend that upon your next visit to said barber, carry with you the attached photo, thereby leaving no room for potential 'awkwardness' . . . Best of luck! I'm sure you'll be fitting right in in no time at all . . .
http://pyleoflist.com/wp-content/upl...12/haircut.jpg
http://pyleoflist.com/wp-content/upl...12/haircut.jpg
Oh Sparty, been raiding the family albums have we?
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Hands up you got me . . . school photo . . . grade 10. In fairness, I wasn't so much fat as just short for my weight.
Last edited by spartacus; Jun 25th 2010 at 6:18 am.
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But as the old saying goes . . . "a picture paints a thousand words" . . . therefore I humbly recommend that upon your next visit to said barber, carry with you the attached photo, thereby leaving no room for potential 'awkwardness' . . . Best of luck! I'm sure you'll be fitting right in in no time at all . . .
http://pyleoflist.com/wp-content/upl...12/haircut.jpg
http://pyleoflist.com/wp-content/upl...12/haircut.jpg