English Classes presented by myLot

Jlyn

@Jlyn10 (11965)

• Malaysia

1 Nov 15

@owlwings I remember you have helped me once before in one of my discussions and you gave a very good explanation.

Thank you.

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

@Jlyn10 Thank you for that i didn't even know I helped. But you ar very welcome.

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

No one should be criticizing anyone's English and doing so would be breaking Mylot rules. People learn by simply participating and reading well written posts in the English language.

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Ann LeFlore

@poehere (15123)

• French Polynesia

31 Oct 15

That is one amazing way to look at this. I think that any online community that encourages everyone to participate to improve their skills is one great place. I do agree that MyLot is an excellent place to help people learn to write English better.

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

@poehere But do you also speak French? I would love to be able to speak French. We liv in what is called a Bilingual country where English and French are the two official languages. I did take some classes but I am not very good at learning French.

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

Yes if English isn't your first language, you can learn a lot just by reading posts written by English speaking persons

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Ann LeFlore

@poehere (15123)

• French Polynesia

1 Nov 15

@Freelanzer You are right on this one. My Mom is American and my dad French and we did grow up in France. But my mom did speak English to us at home when we were growing up. She wanted us to speak both languages. Yes speaking is different than reading and writing it.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (139782)

• Roseburg, Oregon

31 Oct 15

We should help them out and not make fun of them.

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

31 Oct 15

And it is good to know that MYlot saw it fit to include it as a golden rule here

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

31 Oct 15

That is wonderful. I wish I had this when I was learning English.

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

I have seen so many posts where people say their English has improved by just reading writing and interacting.

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kizzyB

@kizzyB (176)

• United Kingdom

31 Oct 15

I think it's great to read about life in other parts of the world, and quite charming if the wording is a little different. Hearing that people benefit from learning here is cool.

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

It does go both ways. We can all learn from each other, new and different things

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Akshat Tyagi

@akshat007 (156)

• New Delhi, India

31 Oct 15

All for one,one for all :)

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

@ThankyouLord Oh no! I would never suggest you correct anyone, that is the same as criticizing them and that is not allowed. They learn by reading and interacting and eventually their English improves

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Akshat Tyagi

@akshat007 (156)

• New Delhi, India

1 Nov 15

@Freelanzer @ThankyouLord yes the correction doesn't have to be extreme. If it's a simple grammatical error then he would get over it in a few days picking up our sentences. I just try to correct him if his intentions were something else and he dictated something contrary. And that too on a personal message. :)

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Lynn Proctor

@ThankyouLord (698)

• St. Petersburg, Florida

31 Oct 15

I think if someone asks for help, then I will offer my help. But if they put up a post and feel really good about it, only to have me come by and offer my corrections, it could hurt someone's feelings. I think asking if they want correcting first might be a nice thing to do.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (137553)

• India

1 Nov 15

We do not see much of bad English in this rebooted myLot. Earlier we had many who could hardly frame a sentence.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (137553)

• India

1 Nov 15

@Freelanzer It could also be they are not here any more. Since correcting English is not allowed here there is not much scope for anyone to improve their English and this includes even native speakers

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@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

@allknowing I believe you can learn from just reading good English and many here have said that their English has improved just by interacting.

@Freelanzer (10743)

• Canada

1 Nov 15

It could be that their English has improved

pahak627

@pahak627 (4558)

• Philippines

15 Nov 15

Yes, mylot is one of the factors that we, non-english speaking people, has improved our proficiency in the language. But there are times that I could not understand some specially if those english speaking members use idiomatic expressions. But it seldom happened.

Jabo

@jaboUK (64354)

• United Kingdom

1 Nov 15

I think the main thing is not to be unkind. As long as I can get the gist of what someone is trying to say, that's fine by me.

Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

• Northampton, England

31 Oct 15

There is trying to improve your English and there's making absolutely no effort. They are very different things. And every member can decide whether or not to take on the role of unpaid teacher or to just ignore the incomprehensible posters.

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