http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-question Just another bbPress community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 02:55:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-question#post-290973 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:48:16 +0000 Ascribe 290973@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Hi Philby,<br /> I would say books are already your best friend. Even supposed crap fiction often contains little nuggets of gold. </p> <p>Sounds like you might already have English-speaking friends to talk to, but if not, get some! Regular chats are the best way to keep up your skills. Sorry I&#39;m not Stephen Fry, but I wish you well all the same. I only speak a little bit of German besides English, and it goes downhill every year because I don&#39;t use it. I envy everyone with a decent grasp of something else. If anything, you don&#39;t feel so damn rude visiting other countries.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Ascribe</p> <p>P.S. If all else fails, look for slang dictionaries or read a big fat English dictionary every day and look for stuff you don&#39;t know. Impossibly geeky, yes, but there&#39;s a gallimaufry of titillating verbiage out there. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-question#post-290947 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:30:08 +0000 Philby47 290947@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Good evening Mr Fry, and everyone who should be reading this.<br /> I have been an avid fan of your work for some time now, having started off on your sketches with Mr Laurie and the ever-brilliant Jeeves and Wooster. What amazed me the most was Your way with words and the view on language itself.<br /> I&#39;m not a native English speaker but I&#39;ve been learning the language for approximately 11 years and I dare think that I have a reasonable grasp of both written and spoken language. But I don&#39;t consider my learning days over, after all, I&#39;m merely 18! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; My question is this : how can I further improve my knowledge, apart from books (to which I am profoundly devoted to) and the usual school studies?</p> <p>Thank you for your time! </p>