Non-native: how is english language in your country?

Originally Posted by Bodomi

The people here are pretty good with english, although most of us have funny accent, myself included.

The only time I've heard people with Finnish accents is on Conan O'Brien's special when he went over there and was talking to people. Many of the people's accents reminded me of Russian accents (which I'm ridiculously familiar with), and not bad at all . If anything, it made me feel bad that all these other countries speak English, but Americans usually only speak maybe one other language at most -- and not always fluent, usually Spanish (myself included -- although I know a lot of random words in other languages).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by eriol

Japanese is the funniest when talking in english. No offense. Here's quote of conversation of my friend's cousin studying in france and meet a japanese

That conversation reminds me of when my Russian viola teacher tried to introduce me to my young japanese accompanist at a music festival. She introduced me as "Karli" (with medium-heavy Russian accent, mind), to which the girl replied:
"Kari."
"No no...Kar-LEE."
"Kar-REE."
"Kar-LEE. LEE. L--"
I stopped her and just said, "It's okay. In Japan I'm Kari. It's okay."

The japanese girl spoke absolutely no English, so it made things a bit..erm..difficult at times. I managed to understand the Japanese better than the Russian, though .

There's nowhere I can't reach.