Fan of Arabian horses says "hello" to you all

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hello to all members and guests!

My civil name is Michael. I have decided myself on this username because on the one hand i don?t like to be Michael+x (sorry to Michael 311 and all the other Michaels, it?s a crazyness of mine) and on the other hand i am (inversion?) an enthusiastic owner of an Arabian mare.
Occupationally am I a mechanical technician and had worked as a steel constructor until the begining of 2006. The firm had gone insolvent and so i have got unemployed. Looking for a new job i often can read in jobofferings that the offerers require good to very well English skills of their new collaborator. I had not spoken English for years. So i began to improve my English skills in the January. I have been doing that by taking lessons from an English Grammar Book and a dictionary which are very good but i couldn?t find any way to test myself until i found this website. And also: what is the profit of learning without practising? So first of all i have read a lot of posts of you on this website. At first i had to look after every second word into the dictionary. Now it?s a bit easier and i would like having contact to other people who want to improve their English skills also.
Now, for the moment, i think i have taken your attention enough. I will enjoy every question or requestion or correction or reaction, whatever will come! I?ll try to answer to all of them!

kind greetings

Michael (Fan of Arabian horses)

[Alan]

Hi Michael,

Welcome to the site. I hope you enjoy practising your English here. That's what we like a dedicated student!

Alan
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You can read my ESL story Saying It Twice

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hi Alan!

Thank you for welcoming me and for the flowers that mark me a dedicated student. Although i don?t really understand the exact meaning of "dedicated" in this context, i?ll accept it as an invitation to communicate on your website. Thank you.
And in spite of it will be a hard piece of work i think i also will enjoy it and meet with success at the long run. Anyhow it is the same like learning "Horsian" with Ga-Wa-Ni ponyboy, an american red indian native.
You see, i have to do a lot. So i join to Freddie Frinton alias James who said in the last act "Okay! I?ll do my very best"

greetings

Michael

[Karina]

Hello Michael!
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nauka języka angielskiego, niemieckiego

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hi Karina!

I enjoy your post! Especially because you?re a polish girl. I have a lot of good experiences to Poland.
Actually, as you cuold read in my introdution, i?m the owner of an Arabian horse! She is from the Polish breed line and she is registered to the breed book of the VZAP which is a part of the WAHO. Her sources you can follow to the breeding stations Janow Podlaski and Michailow. And I really love her. Indeed not like my wife but i do.
On the other hand have i been as a handball trainer in a trainingscamp in Masuren a few years ago. It was an exchange of youthful player between the polish handballunion and the handballunion of the area of M?nster (Germany). The Polish had invited us to a state trainingscamp between Byzicko an Wegozewo (in German "Aalstadt" like Piotr, one the polish friends told me). Beside of a see it stood anywhere in the country. The polish friends showed us german trainer how to eat tartar and bigosz and also how the Polish drink Vodka. That had been ten of the most pleasant days in my life.
But i?m telling and telling! Why didn?t you tell more about you? Please don?t hesitate! I would like to hear from You.

Greetings

Michael

[Cristina]

Thanks to welcome all the new members
I must say Im surprised,I thought you were a near native American, you know,your English and Grammar are great ,only a few mistakes but wuauuuu you are great,Ive been studying English for three years in an institute,for 8 years in school and I dont speak as well as you do and dont have the vocabulary you do have,
its impressive....Congratulations...specialy because you ve learned alone with grammar books and a dictionary,that means that you are constant,I read many letters of yours and there are many words I dont understand but well,Ill do my best to learn them,about riddles,Do you know a page where I can find some?,Big kiss for you

Bye

Brains,like hearts,go where they are appreciated.

[Yankee]

Hi Cristina,

You're right! Michael is doing very well with his English! Your English is also very good.

Hi Alan

I'm curious if you knew who Michael was quoting in his second post (Freddie Frinton alias James). And also which short film?

Hi Michael

As far as I know, "Dinner For One" is basically unknown in the UK and North America. Did you know that it was actually filmed in Germany? (In Hamburg, I think.)

Amy
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hi you all!

I feel pretty honoured by all the flowers you gave me at this introduction. But please let me explain my concept: First of all: I spend a lot of time reading many posts. Second. I often have a look into my grammar book and also into my dictonary. Third: at this site there are some people who had a lot of passion helping me, requesting me and correcting me. But, finally, it might be that I have had some success I?m far from being a really good English user. One can achieve that only by being buisy and buisy and buisy! I hope I?ll have still a lot of time which I can spend with all you nice people. And I have to thank you!

Amy, did you ever see the origin of "Diner for One"? In the beginning there is speaking a moderator who explains the characters and the move of that act. Doing that he mentions that the whole conversation doesn?t any matter for it and only explains the sense of "Well, I?ll do my very best" and Freddie Frinton did the job of his life I think. However this act is shown for 25 or more years at every silvester evenning on several TV stations.

I also liked to know whether Freddie Frinton is as well known in the UK as he is in Germany!

Thanks again for the flowers

Michael

[Fan of Arabian horses]

[Alan]

Hi Amy,

Yes I know the piece. I watched it some time ago in the presence of a German couple with much slapping of thighs.

Alan
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You can read my EFL story Sea Expressions

[Yankee]

Hi Michael

I had never seen the "Dinner For One" film before I came to Germany. But I was introduced to it the first year I was here - with much fanfare from my German friends - and I've watched it every New Year's Eve since then. And as Alan described, there was (and still is) always quite a lot of thigh-slapping.

Do you remember the grammar mistake that the narrator (Heinz Piper) originally made in his introduction?

Amy
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hi Amy!

You are right! The narrator Heinz Piper/Pieper didn?t explain "I?ll do my very best" but "The same procedure than last year?" and "The same procedure as every year, James!"
Mistakes like that happen to me because I?m not really sure in English yet! I too often have to think about what I try to say!

Michael

[Yankee]

Hi Landlubber

I didn't intend to contradict you. I can't really remember everything that the narrator said, but I do remember the sentence "The same procedure than last year?". Of course being a native English speaker I heard the mistake.

I think they've corrected that mistake in the meantime. I read somewhere that there were rehearsal tapes that were correct and they spliced them in.

Amy
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Fan of Arabian horses]

Hi Amy!

I heard it from the bush telegraph! You introduced the honorable flock of red indian landlubbers! So don?t worry, sister, everything is fine particular as you?re right in fact.

Michael

[Conchita]