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Adults won't get the same treatment like children. If a non-native child lives in foreign language environment use wrong pronunciation/grammar, he would be cor
by ezoe 7y ago
Adults won't get the same treatment like children.
If a non-native child lives in foreign language environment use wrong pronunciation/grammar, he would be corrected by friends and teachers. But adults won't get that feedback often.
Example, one of my colleague is non-native. He speak almost perfect pronunciation/grammar, yet he has some minor quirks time to time. I won't correct him because his language skill is more than adequate for the job and we are engineers, not the language teacher.
If I correct every minor quirks of him, he got a feedback, so in long term, his language will be improved further. But why do we have to do that when it has been more than enough already?
Another example, I'm not a English native. So my writing still contains grammatical errors. But as my language skills are improving, I rarely got a feedback these days for my writing become good enough.
Sometimes, I got a hint of feedback like : "Wow, I didn't notice that you are non-native.". People say that because they noticed unnatural writing of mine. I guess that's a polite way of saying "You failed."
- bovine3dom 7y agoI hope you don't find this too patronising, but I thought I'd offer you some feedback: > Adults won't get the same treatment like children. I'd render this as "Adults don't get the same treatment as children". > He speak Should be "He speaks" > we are engineers, not the language teacher This should probably be "not language teachers", but the whole phrase doesn't make a great deal of sense. I'd probably say "not copywriters". > If I correct every minor quirks of him, he got a feedback "If I corrected every minor quirk, he'd get feedback" Generally "got a feedback" should always be "get feedback" - the tense of get was wrong, and feedback isn't countable, so it doesn't take an article.
- ezoe 7y agoThanks. Articles and plurals are the last things for me to master since my native tongue, Japanese, doesn't have such concepts. It's not like I'm thinking in Japanese when I write English, But the native tongue still affect my thinking somehow.
- Ensorceled 7y agoAdults don't get the same treatment as children. If a non-native child lives in a foreign language environment and uses the wrong pronunciation/grammar, they would be corrected by friends and teachers. But adults won't get that feedback often. Example, one of my colleague is non-native. He speaks with almost perfect pronunciation/grammar, yet he has some minor quirks from time to time. I don't correct him because his language skills are more than adequate for the job and we are engineers, not language teachers. Another example, I do not speak English natively, so my writing still contains grammatical errors. As my language skills improved, I stopped receiving feedback for my writing, it had become good enough. Sometimes, I get a hint of feedback like: "Wow, I didn't notice that you are non-native.". People say that because they noticed my unnatural writing, I guess that's a polite way of saying "You failed". Grammar is hard. My French is unreadable.
- DavidWoof 7y agoIn the spirit of this thread... If a child lives in X, he/they will Y. If a child lived in X, he/they would Y.
- Broken_Hippo 7y agoI guess that's a polite way of saying "You failed." Honestly, most folks say that stuff as a compliment, and I'm honestly happy folks give honest feedback about what tips them off. Especially in the US, many folks can't imagine learning enough of a foreign language to work. Using awkward phrasing could be an indicator of being foreign, sure, but occasionally it is just some dude that writes awkwardly.