some strange bands labelled as pub rock on this thread! brinsley schwarz, eddie and the hot rods, doctor feelgood, kursaal flyers, all mid 70's say 74-76 and pre-dating punk
could you please, just once, think before you spam yet again? you really don't come across as football savvy and it's just dullsville watching you post over and over and over...etc?
if you learn a language under the age of 4 you are native, 4-8 fluent/competent, after that you can never be native, so....do the best you can, and that can easily approach fluent
I learned French for family reasons, not so different from you.
The most important step for me was to realise that if i could ask for a beer, a direction, buy clothes or whatever, that i was already speaking French. After that it was just a matter of not panicking, explaining that I am english...
a brighton institution indeed, and will be sadly missed. my favourite sing li moment: many many years ago a group of kids were racially abusing mr li so i had words and chucked them out. got a black eye for my troubles. he then refused to serve me as a "troublemaker" ha!