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[Johnny English]

your doing well  lazslo  time to step up the lessons   dog and bone = phone     apples and pears = stairs    richard the third = bird (girlfreind)     tom tit = shit    jack and danny =   well you get my drift

Sorry, I don't understand this. I know the words but not the logic...  ...the lesson maybe arrived sooner than I was ready for... 

[Andy B]

your doing well  lazslo  time to step up the lessons   dog and bone = phone     apples and pears = stairs    richard the third = bird (girlfreind)     tom tit = shit    jack and danny =   well you get my drift

Sorry, I don't understand this. I know the words but not the logic...  ...the lesson maybe arrived sooner than I was ready for... 

You need to Google 'Cockney Rhyming Slang' 

[Andy B]

......
but these days "Thou" would just sound silly.....    no one in general population has used that in normal conversation in probably more than a 100 years....    we all still know what it means,  and recognise it as a more formal version of "you" but no one uses it....   ...

 .....

Tha's never bin t' Wigin ast tha 

[MaxV6]

......
but these days "Thou" would just sound silly.....    no one in general population has used that in normal conversation in probably more than a 100 years....    we all still know what it means,  and recognise it as a more formal version of "you" but no one uses it....   ...

 .....

Tha's never bin t' Wigin ast tha 

yes, but i had an interpreter 

[Johnny English]

your doing well  lazslo  time to step up the lessons   dog and bone = phone     apples and pears = stairs    richard the third = bird (girlfreind)     tom tit = shit    jack and danny =   well you get my drift

Sorry, I don't understand this. I know the words but not the logic...  ...the lesson maybe arrived sooner than I was ready for... 

You need to Google 'Cockney Rhyming Slang' 

 

[Johnny English]

......
but these days "Thou" would just sound silly.....    no one in general population has used that in normal conversation in probably more than a 100 years....    we all still know what it means,  and recognise it as a more formal version of "you" but no one uses it....   ...

 .....

Tha's never bin t' Wigin ast tha 

yes, but i had an interpreter 

Aaaa... with interpreter is the easiest...

[Johnny English]

your doing well  lazslo  time to step up the lessons   dog and bone = phone     apples and pears = stairs    richard the third = bird (girlfreind)     tom tit = shit    jack and danny =   well you get my drift

 I found a site, which seems useful ...

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/

...but the better I know English the more questions I have...   For example : shall I just use them instead of each other? Or is there any rule? I mean I say  a verb in Cockney but this is a noun in English and different rules should often be used...I'm confused a bit...

[Andy B]

your doing well  lazslo  time to step up the lessons   dog and bone = phone     apples and pears = stairs    richard the third = bird (girlfreind)     tom tit = shit    jack and danny =   well you get my drift

 I found a site, which seems useful ...

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/

...but the better I know English the more questions I have...   For example : shall I just use them instead of each other? Or is there any rule? I mean I say  a verb in Cockney but this is a noun in English and different rules should often be used...I'm confused a bit...

Rhyming slang is only really used in a small part of southern England (near London) so if I was you, I'd just concentrate on learning 'normal' English 

[Johnny English]

 

[Murph]

I just read through this thread from start to finish and was not only impressed by your grasp of English Laslo, but also by just how much most of us use terrible English much of the time.

I went out with a Swedish girl a couple of years ago and found that her English was usually much better than mine - both written and spoken.

It seems foreign schools teach English far better than English schools do.  Go figure!

Keep it up Laslo - you're doing great!

[Johnny English]

Thank you Murph, you can't imagine what important this is!      

[Johnny English]

Thank you Murph, you can't imagine what important this is!      

Erm... I mean "how" important this is...

[Vamps]

Thank you Murph, you can't imagine what important this is!      

Erm... I mean "how" important this is...

Well done...........

[Johnny English]

I must admit being helped a bit...  

[Osprey]

Rhyming slang is only really used in a small part of southern England (near London) so if I was you, I'd just concentrate on learning 'normal' English 

Good advice but there is also Glasgow rhyming slang.  Frinstance corned beef = deaf and Mick Jagger = lager, as in "Three pints o' Mick wi' yer thumb in it, big man."

And hats off to you, Laszlo!  You can be proud of your English and of your willingness to learn.