A very helpful article to correct our wrong usage of English....

theeresaaiza Yes indeed it was a great article that taught us which word was best to use and why. This is very helpful to all of us, even English speaking Americans who can make errors just as easily as anyone from another country.I would like to copy this on paper and hang it up on my wall here at Gold Crest.We start out knowing these things but along the way we get careless and often use the wrong word. Sometimes we luck out as it sounds right and is right 'but sometimes we are in too much of a hurry. So lets all try to learn something from this discussion that we can use in our own writing.

Hi Theresaaiza,thanks for recommending the website to us.I'll visit it after my response and see if there are something useful.I was Chinese, from your socalled "neighboring Asian countries",and just like your description my english is poor ,particularly in the oral part.I'm very willing to speak english fluently.Hope I can persist in learning from now on.Unconsciously maybe I have made some elementary mistakes ,hope you can figure out what i mean.Thanks for your sharing.

I be did for see much my to talk at the speaking of the English pretty very good now. For you I be liking of the thanking to for which is the link for you to have been posted. At I wish to of you the merriest of good days and now be you to get have a happy times with the myLot.

I haven't yet decided if this is an evolution or a misuse of the language, but I often read and hear "this article speaks TO the subject we've been discussing." It drives me right up the wall! That clearly states that a magazine article and a subject are having a discussion! It's a new fad I think and it shouldn't be. By the way, Hair, do you Brits use "shall"? I was taught it in my early school years but it's never used anymore. I've forgotten what it even means. When I use it, it's always in the context of a threat to my kids, as in: "You've disobeyed, continue to do so, and the punishment is coming. I'm about to do this. Shall I?" That's the only way I use it and I don't even know whether or not it's correct.

The article you suggested is very informative. One has to learn English the hard way. It is not easy. You must always have someone who would be ready to criticize you whenever you go wrong. With healthy criticism you are likely to make fewer mistakes. Thanks for sharing.

eh, i am chinese ,i like english ,but i think not fluently ,since it is not my mother language ,so in order to improve the situation ,i just use english and read english everyday , i think if take hard working ,it will be effective one day ,and thank you for you article ,ha

You are right about that. Of all the Asian countries, it seems Filipinos speak English the very best. At least from what I can tell of the people I know here on mylot.

I have visited the link and it is indeed very helpful. I am sure that many will find it useful I as many other will certainly learn from this site. Great of you to have posted this link.

that is a great link . i am not native speaker but i know that many people, like in Singapore and Malay is as fluent as Filipinos

yes, you're right. Learning correct English is not that easy. Well, even professionals admits that they sometimes got mistaken the use or choice of words in communicating be it oral or in written. Actually, I was informed before that a single english word might have a maximum of 40 or more meanings, and I couldn't believe it. That's why it has synonyms and lot of words that make us confuse which is appropriate to choose. Sharing this site, would be of great help. Thanks to you Theresaaiza.

thank you for this. i am sure it will be handy in the future.

with all the mylot population coming from different parts of the world, who can use english (standard) grammar correctly? thanks for the link i speak 2 indian major dialects in addition to spanish which is the sole language of my father so english isn't my native tongue. i am using english everyday here in KSA but nobody really care if my grammar is bad. lol so again thanks for this link...

thanks for the tip.i would like to be more fluent in english in both oral and written

Great Im from argentina the articre was really useful, thanks

This is quite helpful indeed. Here, at work, where I often hear a lot of mistakes whenever my colleagues speak English, this would be really helpful for them. Don't get me wrong, I too make some mistakes when I speak English and compared to typing in English and just proof reading your work so that you can edit them, speaking in English should be practiced constantly, with the correct phrases, pronunciation, grammar and so on. So, it would be best if we get to start right and keep it that way than realize the continuous mistakes that we have been doing due to being misinformed. (^_^") Thank for sharing this article with us!

It is hard for us to know whether we speak correctly when all of us are making the same mistake. For me, language is the hardest subject. Unlike other subject in school, learning language is a never ending process, we always strive for improvement. Anyway thanks for sharing, it is really useful.

i think we need to practice seaking english in order to embrace the language... thanks for the link!

this article is so helpful for me, I get a lot of mistakes I have been done for years, thanks for posting and if you have more you can post to help us.

Thanks it's really helpful, even though I'm Bulgarian.