@pansyface is it true, do you know, that all air traffic control is done in English, regardless of which country the controller or the pilot is in/above?
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@raisingirl English in the international language of travel. Pilots who wish to fly out of France must pass an exam in english to be able to liase with Air Traffic Control. @pansyface used to teach the controllers, I taught the French pilots who wanted to get into companies that flew out of France. They didn't need the exam if they were flying internal flights.
Boy did we have some fun having to speak through a microphone mimicking that of an aeroplane, sometimes with the sound of the plane engine in the background. It was hard for them.
My OH used to teach English to Russian air traffic controllers. They were very motivated, not surprisingly - I imagine they had to pass quite stringent tests... important to understand and be understood when you're helping to guide a plane.
Said OH is from Bradford. He uses the short "a" (bath, not barth) except for the word "master", pronounced "marster", which I find intriguing. Perhaps a hangover from his days at Bradford grammar school...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I used to teach teachers in Viet Nam. I remember meeting a politician who had never left VN and had total English fluency; spoken with a strong Welsh accent. He'd worked with his beloved teacher for five years.
I have strong Andaluz bar Spanish - some kind of equivalent to sounding like a drunk Spanish Ray Winston who has forgotten how to speak Spanish.
I reckon so. I’ve always pronounced it ‘cerra munny’ with the stress on the first syllable, which I’m fairly certain used to be how most people said it.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Bru shetta (which makes Italians squirm) or Bru sketta?
Bolo gnays or Bolo gnays ay? Another one where the British mispronunciation infuriated my Italian teacher. “Do they think Bologna is in France??”
Boy did we have some fun having to speak through a microphone mimicking that of an aeroplane, sometimes with the sound of the plane engine in the background. It was hard for them.
Snap! @pansyface !!
Said OH is from Bradford. He uses the short "a" (bath, not barth) except for the word "master", pronounced "marster", which I find intriguing. Perhaps a hangover from his days at Bradford grammar school...
Seem to have strayed from the topic of the pronunciation of H😊