Hello, I was reading the pages of the book that Felicity gave us and I found it very interesting. Despite being in the same continent where I come from I know very little about Caribean islands. It is amazing to realize how a language could change. Since We were studing the influence of the differents cultures on the English language and the changes that this had produced I coudn´t stop comparing with the Spanish language. The Spanish is spoken in much more countries of America and all of them have their characteristics, The influences of the native tongue show thier evidences in the accents you can find all over South and Central America continent. But I think that the changes are less evident that in the English language, perhaps it is because in Latin America there weren´t the big numbers of african slaves than in others colonies and the indian slaves were "taught" in the spanish language. I don´t know It is a thuoght perhaps you can think with me.By the way, reading the pages of the book I noticed that Damien Marley wasn´t wrong when he used "Them" insted of they (!!!!!) The book gives this example "Me go there" that would mean "I went there" (!!!!) But I found a similar construction reading a book, an English book, that It is very well known because of the film: "Shirley Valantine" The book use a colloquial language and It use "me" instead of "my" Does anybody know the reason?I also laernt, reading the pages of the book, where the name of an excelent music group came from. Yes, Maroon 5, the book said that “maroon” is the name of the escaped slaves and derives from the latin word "cimarrón". Graet !!!!!

Hello Everybody, as usuall I´m trying to find some inspiration to write in my blog and I spend
the time I`ve destinated to my "english studies" watching videos at youtube, but videos in english, of course.
I found one very funny and I think you will enjoy it because is about the differences between british and american accent, you can find as "Hugh Laurie: the British accent vs the American"

Hello Everybody, I was looking at the web fot same information and I have found same interesting sites. Some of then are very funny, they are quiz that show you how english you are, of course my puntuation was "15% and it said me that I wasn`t French either"
There are two:
www.gotoquiz.com/how_english_are_you
www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/
So I challenge Felicity to show us how english she is !!!!!!

The other site that I want to share, is a Blog, It is very interesting it has many exercises, and idiomatic and vocabulary quizzes, grammar, and it has all levels.
http://esl.about.com/b/

Well That is what happen to me when I switch on my computer and when I fish to visit this sites my time is over and I have to do something else, like now, that I have to cook !!!
By see you tomorrow