After more than eight years in London and living day to day the strangest experiences I decided to write this blog about the English, and to destroy myths. Have you heard of the British punctuality, respect for queues of the Englishmen, good-school education and behavior-of the English, elegance, and organized labor as they are? Well ... all lies. The only myths about English being a reality is that they actually drink more than anyone (with the exception of the Irish cousins) and when they do are a few hooligans no need to have a party involved.
So this blog can help all those who, even after reading and despite being the most expensive country in Europe (London is the world's most expensive city after Tokyo and Moscow), still prefer to come here.
today's blog is a way of introduction, but even so, I'll give you the first tip: if you think your English is perfect, if passed with honors the Cambridge exams in London and believe that going to be plain sing, are again wrong. Maybe their English is sufficient to understand the news from the BBC, but nothing more. English, especially spoken in London is not what we all know as the language of Shakespeare but a jumble of grunts, screams and unintelligible sounds that you go to flip and make useless all your previous efforts to learn the language.
And, now, until next blog, I'll go by so slow because, unfortunately, my computer is British and I have to take my time to add tildes, question marks and exclamation marks at the beginning of sentences and our beloved 'ñ' but we're going to do ...
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