Do you feel bad for people who can't express themselves well in English?
By DenverLC
@DenverLC (1143)
Philippines
7 responses
@May2k8 (18369)
• Indonesia
8 Dec 09
I'm feel bad for myself if in one of my sentence people don't know what I say. Because, English is not my usually language and I still learn using English. There are word can reverse and must be added or can be have different meaning in one word. I always watch movie with text in English, but it's not enough because I need to write it down or speak directly to a person.
@hwj308 (64)
• China
8 Dec 09
yes , I am a college student from China ,we do not have the perfect environment of communicating with english ,We have to learn by listenting radio ,writing some english words , reading english articles and news , we always know we still now can't express our opinions very smartly by english ,but we are still studying hard to pratice english
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@DenverLC (1143)
• Philippines
9 Dec 09
Hi hwj308
Yes i understand your situation there in China. I admire you for exerting more effort to learn and that is what I am trying to encourage in this forum. It is not necessarily a perfect English,but a good one. Keep it up and good lack.
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@sachii315 (488)
• Japan
8 Dec 09
I sometimes do feel bad for them since they can't directly express their thoughts. I was raised in a Country where most people doesn't speak English at all. They only speak their dialect. Even though English is taught in school, most students find it difficult to learn because their native tongue. When they go home, the are back speaking their native language again since there are not much people to practice speaking English with. Though some take much effort in learning it,while some are very interested in learning but don't have the budget, since taking English lessons are very much expensive.
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@redthaidevil (1047)
• Thailand
8 Dec 09
Well, you can't feel bad about this as English is learnable, you give time + commitment and I'm sure you will get results in any language you want to learn not only English.
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@yan_blue8 (1437)
• Philippines
9 Dec 09
I am not perfect and I am not born to be an English speaker too. Sometimes, I type different when my mind is saying different. But I never stop learning. I am the one who correct myself at times.
Bad there are more people who is worst than me. I guess they knew it too.
I have experienced talking to someone here and I can't understand each word that he is saying. It was not a good discussion from the very beginning, but because someone had interpret it for me, then it went well in the end, at least
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@JordiYS (7)
• Czech Republic
8 Dec 09
Actually it depends if it is a person from france or germany from these rich countries where the education is at a high level i woulndt feel bad for those people because if they wanted to learn english they could do it i would feel bad for people from kenya or those countries because they dont have really much education and if they would to speak english they just couldnt because there are not much teachers =/
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@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
9 Dec 09
Hi Denver.
Actually, I admire those whose first language is not English for how they try and how well they do communicate, some better than others, but all equally trying.
I wish I was fluent in more than just one language, so again, I admire their efforts!
Karen
@DenverLC (1143)
• Philippines
10 Dec 09
Hi Karen,
Yes that is true, even native english speakers sometimes do not follow the right
english language rules as thought in books and school. The learners deserved a thumbs up for the effort to learn well, and those who are still trying further learning.