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I’m not a native English speaker, either. The biggest challenge for me is to write English sentences without grammatical errors. To do that, you need feedbacks
by searene 5y ago
I’m not a native English speaker, either. The biggest challenge for me is to write English sentences without grammatical errors. To do that, you need feedbacks that tell you whether your sentences are correct, that’s especially hard when you neither live in an English-speaking country nor have an English-speaking friend. Online language learning forums help a little bit, but they are not enough if you want constant feedbacks.
- rigel_kentaurus 5y agoNot sure if you did that on purpose, but you would say, "you need feedback", not making it plural
- flakiness 5y agoSame here. I'd recommend tools like Grammarly or something similar (like spell correction on Gmail/GDocs). They at least catch basic errors. Although many incorrect-but-not-right kinds of errors fall through, you'll feel embarrassed much less often.
- nzmsv 5y agoSome feedback: 1) "Feedback" is uncountable 2) The long sentence starting with "To do that" should be split into two after "correct". As written, the clause that follows is completely standalone and there is no conjunction to connect it to the rest of the sentence. 3) This is more of a style thing, but I would expand the word "that" in "that's especially hard". For example, into "getting this feedback". Why? Because "that" should refer to some concept you already mentioned, but there is nothing in the preceding sentence it can meaningfully point to. What's hard? Needing feedback? No, getting the feedback is hard, but that phrase doesn't appear anywhere, so you have a dangling pointer :)
- searene 5y agoThanks for the feedback!
- _tik_ 5y agoSame here. The grammar of my main language is very flexible compare to English. There is no grammatical for tenses and plurals.
- I_complete_me 5y agoI would love to be able to write as well in your language as you write in English.