11 AP Blog

Even though I am from Brazil, speaking english was always something required in my life. During this week in my 11 AP English class, we have been discussing different types of english and how they differ from each other but continue the same big and known english. For example, at home I speak broken english, actually, a mixture of Portuguese and English, at school I speak -or at least I try, a formal English as I was taught in my English school back in Brazil; and when with friends, I speak a mostly “slanged” english, and when I say slanged I mean the terms that American people created to communicate with people whom they have intimacy with, like when you say “wyd?” instead of typing the whole “what are you doing?”, because of course, that would be too much work...I must particularly confess that whenever people use “slanged” english to joke around and I don’t understand, I got to a point where I just laugh along with the group. And also, of course sometimes my brain gets tangled and