Where do you learn formal English?
By magic9
@magic9 (980)
China
February 2, 2010 9:12pm CST
I know people use informal English more often than formal English. I think I was hardly taught much formal English when all of a sudden I was requested to speak or write in formal English in some language tests like TOEFL or IELTS. There are a great many people facing the simliar embarrassment like me. So I wonder where and since when you have started learning formal language?
3 responses
@washingtonmark (367)
• United States
3 Feb 10
I have been learning formal English since I was three years old, it just something Americans are taught and it is like people from other countries learning how to speak formally in there language.
wow! so early!
My school only taught me old fashioned English. Plus, exam-oriented ONLY!
@janeajozelle (197)
• Philippines
3 Feb 10
i learn it in schools every subject in my country are being taught in english paragraph except for math which involves few english languages.
@chriszh22 (432)
• China
3 Feb 10
Hey magic9 I think school is the best place to learn formal English. You can learn it from books by yourself as well. I think English printed in books is quite formal one.
