First English Phrases

[Harvey]

In Japan the first English phrase most people learn in school is "This is a pen." I decided to ask some other friends.

Japan: "This is a pen."
France: "Where is Brian?" and "It's a cat."
Korea: "I am a boy. You are a girl."
Spain: "My tailor is right."


Can anyone add any others??

 

[lastmagi]

In Japan the first English phrase most people learn in school is "This is a pen."

Ah, I was wondering about that when I was watching the end of this clip:
http://www.wimp.com/uncomfortable/

 

[godppgo]

Taiwan: "My dad is a businessman. My mom is a housewife."

 

[Hiroto=Love]

German: Ich heiße Helga

 

[Robster]

Being English I can't really add to this, but over here the first phrase of german we learn is:

Ich heisse Robert. Ich wohne in "town here", das ist in England.

 

[dameko]

Serbia:

-My name is.... I am a student.

 

[Seon-a Kim]

Belgium: Els en Tom gaan op stap

Or something...it's been a loooooong time.

 

[nice gaijin]

Belgium? would that be Flemish? I thought this thread was about the first English phrases ESL learners from different country are taught...

 

[Seon-a Kim]

Belgium? would that be Flemish? I thought this thread was about the first English phrases ESL learners from different country are taught...

That's would be Dutch, French and German (Flemish is a dialect)

And in that case I got no idea what the first English lines are here, as I never had English classes.

 

[leonmarino]

Maybe not the first, but one of the first lines we learned is:
"How do you do?"

Which was quite difficult for some because many tended to answer "Fine, and you?" instead of just repeating the question.

As an appendix, I can add the first French line we learned:
"Bonjour, je m'appelle -insert name- " (I'm not sure about the spelling of appelle..)

And German.. I can't really remember but the first chapter was all about some Tischtennis Verein (spelling?) "Effekt", in English: tabletennis club "Effect"..

Oh yeah, and the first ancient Latin phrase we learned was about some cat in the garden.. And ancient Greek was about some sculptor.

 

[Hiroto=Love]

My First English was: I can't speak english very well xD Great isn't it xD
My first French was too : Bonjour, je M'appelle "____" (your spelling was right Leonmarino)
The first dutch Phrases i learned to write was : ik ben blij(I'm Happy) , Or somting like that, can't hardly remember xD

 

[nice gaijin]

That's would be Dutch, French and German (Flemish is a dialect)
And in that case I got no idea what the first English lines are here, as I never had English classes.

I meant to ask what language was the sentence you wrote, since it clearly wasn't English.

 

[Seon-a Kim]

Oh, that would be Dutch

 

[Kirie_Maiden]

I'm English too, but this thread amuses me. "This is a pen." Why would that be the most vital thing to learn!

My first word was, "Jackson" as a baby. Does that count???

 

[Anchyyy]

Hmmm as far as i remember the first thing i learned in English was something like... "Hello. My name is Ana. I am from Maribor."

But that's a really long time ago! I started learning English when i was 10!

 

[Kuroyume]

I've started learning English with a song ( about 8 years ago... i'm getting old ^^) and it was something like "This is Alison, she's my friend, she's in class 5 and is 10, hello, hello, hello........." well I think my English has improved meanwhile...

 

[Kuroyume]

As an appendix, I can add the first French line we learned:
"Bonjour, je m'appelle -insert name- " (I'm not sure about the spelling of appelle..)
And German.. I can't really remember but the first chapter was all about some Tischtennis Verein (spelling?) "Effekt", in English: tabletennis club "Effect"..

you've spelled Tischtennis Verein correctly.^^
(maybe i should open a German class thread.. very threatening)

 

[Zaff]

Being a programmer would have to be "Hello World" (yes ill laugh at that one by myself unless anybody here happens to program)

 

[dark_secrester]

England is usually 'My name is ...'

Zaff, there is magic in those words! You shouldn't say them to people who don't program! HAHAHAHA

In D programming, my first words were:
Please Don't kill me.