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The high number of grammatical errors caused me to quit reading in the middle.
by zachgreen 15y ago
The high number of grammatical errors caused me to quit reading in the middle.
- Nic0 15y agoThank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors. Any tips to improve with this?
- andrewcooke 15y agowrite more :o) it's the only way you'll get better and it's a good way of saying "fuck you" to those that cricise... [other things i do include silently talking to myself in the foreign language while i am out walking (describe what is happening) and trying to listen/read in an "aware" way - for example, when listening to someone speak, try to consciously note the gender of the nouns they are using (doesn't work for english, but you get the idea...). but the most important thing is practice - my spanish got much, much worse when i started working from home rather than in a spanish-speaking company]
- Nic0 15y agoThanks for your advises, in fact, I hesitated to write it in French, the easy way... So I will carry on practice, I could try force myself to think in English as you said, good advice. Thanks.
- amorphid 15y agoKeep practicing English to improve your English :) I'm getting burned out on RSS, too. I think the burnout started for me when TechCrunch decided that publishing every single idea that came to mind was somehow a good use of my reading time.
- zachgreen 15y agoHave someone else proof read the document first, and have them actually send you what they found so you can fix it (and learn from it). Even if you are writing in your native language, a second set of eyes makes a tremendous difference.
- Nic0 15y agoThis would be perfect, but in practice, even in my native language, it isn't easy to ask someone else proof read, it takes time and it's never easy to ask someone else time. But I agreed that is a perfect solution.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoJust marry a technical writer. Works for me! Except when I forget to ask her...
- phaylon 15y agoWhat helped me most was american/english media, and mostly movies. It gave me a better feel for the language than just reading something, and gives more context for association regarding unknown words and phrases.
- srl 15y agoIt seems the writer just started blogging in English (from french) this month.
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