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Can you please help me with my english?
Most of anons complain about me being bad at english
Lets talk about something and please correct me if I'm wrong
>>51959235
>Most of anons
"Most anonymous posters" would be the correct wording.
>>51959235
Tell me everything you did today. Be specific, use lots of details and take chances, it will be easier to learn this way. Then tell me everything you did yesterday the same way. And finally, tell me what you will do tomorrow.
what are your views on U.S. foreign policy with respect to its neighboring countries? Do you feel that its citizens are active and informed enough to make the right decisions that make a democracy function effectively in today's society? If not, how would you address the problems you see in American life? Can Americans learn anything from the Mexican way of life?
Yo no tengo tiempo para tu
how was that?
>>51959235
You speak better English than most Americans I've met and talked to desu.
You're fine ándale ándale
>>51959282
Do what this guy said. This will cover a lot of basic vocabulary and tenses, we'll show you what you did wrong and how to improve on your grammar.
>>51959282
Well...
First I went to the gym, did some weight lifts
Then I drove back to my house, ate and taked a shower
Since that I have been playing videogames and shitposting on 4chan
>>51959285
>how would you address the problems you see in American life? Can Americans learn
I like America and it's way of life
I think one of the biggest problems American youth face today is the abuse of some drugs
Ya gotta try hard anon. English is tough, but it can be learned through thorough thought, though.
If you want me to correct you english, most of your post isn't wrong, just kind of awkward. You're getting your point across and I can understand you completely.
>Most of anons complain about me being bad at english
this sentence is pretty awkward, a better way to word it is
"Most anons complain that I have bad english"
Most of anons is grammatically incorrect, but everything else is technically correct, just awkward.
The only real way to find out wether your english is awkward is to experience people speaking english or by reading english regularly. Pirate some movies, TV and books in English and start there.
>>51959423
"First I went to the gym, did some weight lifts"
Correct, very good.
"Then I drove back to my house, ate and taked a shower"
Good job on "ate", but "taked' should be "took".
"Since that I have been playing videogames and shitposting on 4chan "
Very good anon but "that" sounds weird, most people would use "then".
You're doing very well, we understand you just fine, you're just a little awkward in your wording and that's okay. You'll get better with time. I'm glad you're taking the time to learn our language.
>through thorough thought, though.
This sentence is going to kill some ESL anon
>>51959423
>First I went to the gym, did some weight lifts
Your meaning is clear here, but you don't "do some weight lifts" you do some weightlifting. A better way to word this sentence is "First I went to the gym and lifted some weights"
>Then I drove back to my house, ate and taked a shower
This sentence is great, natural-sounding. "taked" a shower should be "took" a shower, though.
>Since that I have been playing videogames and shitposting on 4chan
That should really be then, but otherwise great sentence
Your english is good, but a little awkward anon. You really just need to keep exposing yourself to more natural english speakers to get a feel for how they talk and write.
>>51959538
Hah, when I was in high school we had a ton of Chinese exchange students.
I used to study chinese a lot, but whenever any of the exchange students gave me shit about how well they knew english I would make them read this.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
(cont.)
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
>>51959596
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
>>51959503
Thanks man
>>51959235
Would you talk to me in English?
>>51959622
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
>>51959622
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
>>51959624
No problem.
Would you like to practice speaking with me and the other anons here some more? You can choose the subject so that it's something you're familiar with.
>>51959235
m8 just leave that shithole of a country and illegally come to america. thats what i did. i hopped that border not knowing any English and now I'm completely fluent and have an excellent full-time job working for Trump's campaign. I believe in you.
>>51959235
Why do Mexicans hate Argies? You both look and sound the same you should be best friends.
>>51959290
Drop the "yo" since it's implied in the "tengo", and change "tu" into "ti".
As in: "No tengo tiempo para ti."
Ideally, it'd be "No te tengo tiempo", it sounds more natural.
>>51959719
When do you use "yo" in front of a conjugated verb?
>>51959689
I don't hate Argentinians, I think they are cool and their country is great
They have good food, nice people and a beautiful accent
>>51959672
No thanks
Can you please explain to me the difference between "for" and "from"?
>>51959923
"from" indicates direction e.g. he comes from Mexico (desde in Spanish)
"for" is para
>>51959923
They sound similar but they're exact opposites.
"For" is the recipient, for example "This watch is for you."
"From" is the sender, as in "The watch is from you."
Similar sound, very different meaning.
>>51959737
When you want to emphasize you're referring to yourself.
>>51959270
*claps and eats a burger while tipying with one hand on the keyboard and the otherone holding a dessert eagle, tipping his fedora with his neck fat
>>51959423
>it's way of life
Should just be its. The apostrophe would me it it is way of life.
Also youth should be plural (youths), or you could change it to THE American youth. I'm just being nitpicky though
>>51960870
Would make it "it is way of life"
Fug
get an american gf
>Try learning other languages
>Non-English speakers go full retard as soon as you get one thing incorrect.
>English speakers either kindly correct the speaker or they put up with the broken English.
It is hard to be the bearers of the master language sometimes.
