English speaking mums from anywhere in the world 🙂

@hajanka
@zzuzana82 I think that I could easily prefer a nice 500sq. ft. penthouse apartment in the center of London. I don`t need a house .... 😀 😀 😀

oh, dear Lord, how I miss England when I read these lines...I lived there for almost 7 years (London and Manchester), wouldn't mind going back anytime. ☹ 😢

@jorgie that was a response to your comment about tons of mistakes and how it isn't a good way to practice english...
i think that just the effort to write in english counts, whether there are mistakes or not. the more you speak/write/communicate the better your english gets = practice makes perfect

@diid that was a response to your comment about tons of mistakes and how it isn't a good way to practice english...
i think that just the effort to write in english counts, whether there are mistakes or not. the more you speak/write/communicate the better your english gets = practice makes perfect

@jorgie practice makes perfect what?

@briketa sooooooooooo jealous!!!!!!!!! I would love to live there, but it is too far for my hubby, he is more family orientated than me, for me is fine to talk to my parents thru Skype, they understand we have got life here and respect it. My dream is to go to US in few years, when children will be bit older to enjoy it too.

@diid i agree with jorgie.i lived in england for five years.but since i moved back home,i haven´t got any chance to speak or write in english.and that´s why my english is getting worse.i wish i could use english more often /i only use it sometimes in my mind-practising phrases 🙂 /.and i think this page gives an opportunity to practise at least writing in english.and what if somebody makes mistakes?many people do it in their native language.and if i read theese conversations-and i see something written differently than i would write it-i think about it.if i am right or not.and if i´m not sure,i look up for it.and that´s also a way to practise.

@diid well, let me explain a little better....if people practice (in this case english) but it can be anything...playing a piano, playing hockey, running etc. they will get better at what they do...hence the saying ...practice makes perfect!

@diid and as i said earlier and @huxy as well.....it doesn't matter that people make mistakes, it's the effort that counts 🙂

@diid 'practice makes perfect' is an idiom (or a figure of speech)

@saza007 thank you for clarifying it even more...i couldn't think of the word 😀 an idiom - i learn something new every day 😀

@huxy well, whatever. I still think it's weird. I don't know who uses "practice makes perfect" because I've never heard anything like that before.

@diid http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Practice+ma...
Practice makes perfect is a common phrase. 😉 if you really knew English very well, you would know.

JeeeeJ are you guys all gone from SK? or just practising English 🙂

@jorgie hi🙂 why new zealand? good question... maybe because everybody are in uk... 😀 no, new zealand was one big dream of my husband, so after our wedding we were going there for holliday, and we stayed there for more than 8months. but because my stupid head, we went back to europe... ☹ and every single day what we are here I regret my decision. life in europe is difrent, harder, people are horrible, and lot of more things, but first i don´t see it. in zealand we was happy, and the nature there is AMAZING!!! now when we have child, we know that we want better life for him and for us too. we have some good friends there and they are living there for years( my husbands famili too) , they have realy good life there and I don´t think money... i think lifestyle. and that is it what I want for my son.
so now I am at war with english 😀
and can I ask you why canada? you are there many years, so I think you don´t meditate of return to europe, are you? here in slovakia every think is going to be just worst and worst...

@briketa sounds poetic and lovely 🙂 , it s great if you are happy and it is the most imprtant in our life to be happy no matter where you live, cause if you live there with your loving husband and your lovely children I think that it is important, cause man doesn t need to be surrounded by by the rest of the family and evth that he had at home and property, cause you are creating your own home according to your priorities and not according to what others say and also it is good when you have great neighbours on which you can rely on and it always depends on the man to choose life he wants to live whether living in the North Pole or in Africa and I like that you are happy in the part of the world you live now and anyway you can start writing some poetic book about the area you live, cause when I was reading your sentences {don t know the expression} I just felt like being in a paradise, relaxed and I felt happiness and a lot of good positive energy which I need 🙂
Nowadays we live in fast and stressful time and it is difficult to stop,sit and think calmly and be greatful for what life brings us and what we have.

@hajanka
I know you are speaking about, cause children are VIP 🙂 and each mum will look at child first and its needs, if child has got difficulties to socialize with peers and surrounding then you will stay in the area he is happy and satisfied there and You won t be changing it according to your needs,
MY son has got difficulties to assimilate new conditions and also has got problem to make friends, but I KNow that he is happy in Slovakia so I do not change it, even though we could live in Oslo as a family, cause my husband works there, we were there during summer and wanted our kids going to kindergarden there but ot would be difficult for Andrej so we decided to come back to SK and live here, even though I would rather live in Osloo as a family, cause it is really difficult when MY hUBBY is there, but I hope that evth will be better and change
so there is no return for me to come back to UK cause my husband works in O slo and children are her with me, but may be one day we will go there for a holiday as a family 🙂

@mimave why canada? i met someone that was from Canada and a came here because of him. I also lived in Englad for a bit but i'm very glad i ended up in Canada. Even though my relationship with the person who made me come here didn't work out, i stayed here and now i'm married, have a good job, nice house and i live a good life...and i'm not talking just about money.
Like you said about New Zeland, the nature in Canada is magnificent and my husband and I are both very outdorsy people so we spend a lot of our weekends exploring our province. :o)
i've never been to New Zeland but it's on my list of places I want to visit. My husband has been there before and he'd love to go back as well. ...so good choice :o)
my family still lives in Slovakia and I visit as often as i can. We just spent 3 weeks with my family over the Christmas holidays.
i admire your decision to want to move to a different country now that you have a child. I now that he is one of the reasons that you'd like to move there but i can't even immagine how hard that would be starting a new life with a child. but if you have friends and family there that should help a lot!
Well, good luck to you and your family. Hopefully you'll find the life that you're looking for.

@diid you know what i think it's weird....you came into this discussion pretending to be someone who speaks english very well...judging by your comment about how many mistakes other people make.
and i agree with @bluff...if you knew english really well, or lived in an english speaking enviroment, you'd definitely heard the phrase before.

@jorgie very nice, I think you must be happy there 🙂 we also like the nature, and we like it much more as people and life in big city. You know, what I am talking aboute, when you live in canada, there must be very nice nature too, my friend was there and he was fascinated.
in new zealand we have some friends, but we don´t want stay with them, we want to be with ourselves, and go to live farther from them, because they are in auckland, and we are looking for some quite place.
but it is very fine when you have someone to visit and to call 🙂
what is the lenght of your flyght when you are going home? I think how much hours you are in the plane? this is one thing what I am afraid... and I hate turbulence 😀 everytime I think I am going to die 😀 😀 😀
so... and sorry for mistakes of course 😉

@mimave our flight takes approximately 9 - 10 hours it depends where we fly into (Franfurkt or Amsterdam or London) and then the other flight to Vienna is about 1.5 to 2 hours long. It's a long flight but to New Zeland it'll be much longer 🙂
the travelling is exhausting...it takes anywhere from 16 to 20 hours from the time we leave our house until we arrive at my parent's place. But you get used to it. I've done is so many times now that i don't worry about it anymore.

@jorgie yes you right, flight to nz is little bit longer 😅 last time 45hours in planes and airports... but I know it is necessary 😒 and I want ask you, you have somebody who speaks slovak or you still use english?

@mimave i speak mostly english. my husband is canadian and so are most of my friends. i have couple of slovakian friends here but we only speak slovakian if we're alone, if we're in a company of canadians we speak english

@mimave I love New Zealand and have travelled through both south and north islands. Abel Tasman is one of my favourite places in the world! 🙂

@diid see, if you would practice just a little bit more, you would probably know 😉 we all learn....

@jorgie My dear, I've been living in the USA for 15yrs, so there is no need for me to practice english on a slovak forum. My kids and husband speak english so in fact, I need to practice slovak. BTW; we don't use that phrase here. Good Bye!

@diid i that case don't join forums where people are trying to practice english and criticize them for their mistakes

@saza007 abel tasman is one place what we want see the next time 🙂 we were just on north isl., but we heard the south is nicer🙂

Hi Ladies,
I would like to bring back the subject about speaking to the kids in Slovakian or English. I was watching myself when I`m switching to English.
For example when I`m doing homework with my son, I feel that it is important to speak English. We don`t have the same spelling, it`s hard to explain some English grammar in Slovak language.
In situation when we are learning something about English ourselves, what you do? You compare it to Slovak grammar. But he does n`t know any. He is learning everything straight in English.
The same in math - all the mathematics punctuation , it`s hard enough to understand it in your native language when you are learning it first. Not to confuse him even more with other language (my son is 6 years old)