So much of this resonates. You have to forgive me as I’m not a writer but a social worker and I write how I speak ! And I had a crap early years education ! So my ramblings are probably peppered with mistakes 🤦🏻♀️ and I’m sure I use the word literally wrong , but I’m not fussed 😆 Now I love telling my dreams and hearing peoples dreams, in fact my sister (she is visiting me from Cambridge) just told me her dream 🤣 it involved me having a very large scary dog 😳 and I once wrote about a scary dream about Aliens in one of my posts, as my dreams are always apocalyptic and could be movies!
Haha, don’t worry, I don’t judge - it’s only my language learners who I hold to exceptionally high standards! Funnily enough, I used to have so many grammar and language pet hates when I was younger, but now there are so few that truly bother me - all the missplaced apostrophes, split infinitives, dangling participles, less/fewer…who cares, right? People love arguing about these things.
I will have a future post though where I complain about a few words I dislike, from a linguistic and philosophical point of view.
Thank you, Daniel - for making me smile, relax and think at the same time every time (sorry for tautology) while reading/listening you!!i It's LITERALLY only yours unique ability to do so, i swear! And I'm not overexagarating and overestimating! And I strongly believe, claim and promote - you are an Expert in making the complicated things easier and closer - everything: English language, life lessons, experience.
Honestly (don't like this word because it almost always means 'dishonestly '), your articles are LITERALLY only one thing I can read in English now and I do love to read them.
Living in UK for almost 2 years has caused an 'allergy ' to English because I feel overwhelmed with it and with lots of 'native speakers around with different accents and level of empathy (o, gush, Irish accent), who are sometimes so lazy to understand me 🤭
And this yours exact note about pronunciation!!! Why nobody cares about this but you only?! Sometimes I have so much to say to others and I have so many words that I can LITERALLY read in my mind - but have no clue how to pronounce them correctly, that is why I'm often down to A1 level trying to explain what I want to say.
Sorry for whining, I didn't want to make so - just wanted to express my admiration for your articles and I can’t imagine what amazing your book will be👍
Is this sentence a Bonus Challenge ?
'Next week: important book updates and, hopefully, I will have some news on the cover. Stay tuned'? - hope, I'm wrong because it seems to me everything is correct 🙈
Zhenia, honestly (ha ha!) you are way too kind, but I'm happy to hear your lovely feedback and at least I know a few of my readers enjoy and appreciate this nonsense I write! (And believe me: I'm no expert - in my next post, very soon, I will tell a couple of stories about times I got things wrong or just lied to students!)
It's so easy for teachers to say 'don't worry about making mistakes' (etc), but it's easier said than done, right? It's perfectly natural to fear making mistakes and saying the wrong thing, or mispronouncing a word. And still's very cliche to say this, but you won't know unless you try. If I'm trying to speak Ukrainian (and I talk about this in more depth in my book), because it's phonetic I can pretty much pronounce most words. Sure, I may get the stress wrong, but the pronunciation rules are consistent. Not so with English. So you just have to take a chance on a word, and hopefully you'll have a sympathetic listener who will 'gently' correct you. Trust me - even I and plenty of other native speakers occasionally mispronounce a word, especially one we even say in print.
Another thing - you might get British (or Irish) speakers who will 'correct' American English pronunciation. When we say 'correct', that often means 'criticise': "What a ridiculous way to say 'bath'!"
You are most certainly not whining, just expressing your thoughts, and expressing them well. I can feel the emotion in your words. I hope my book lives up to your expectations, whenever it's finished.
Here's the bonus challenge sentence (I didn't make it very clear in my post, and I explained the challenge badly, I might need to reshare it):
Although, I’m prety confidant, but Im also absolutly teriffied that I had made a tons of miskates in me book.
There you go, see if you can identify the 10 or 11 mistakes - good luck!
So much of this resonates. You have to forgive me as I’m not a writer but a social worker and I write how I speak ! And I had a crap early years education ! So my ramblings are probably peppered with mistakes 🤦🏻♀️ and I’m sure I use the word literally wrong , but I’m not fussed 😆 Now I love telling my dreams and hearing peoples dreams, in fact my sister (she is visiting me from Cambridge) just told me her dream 🤣 it involved me having a very large scary dog 😳 and I once wrote about a scary dream about Aliens in one of my posts, as my dreams are always apocalyptic and could be movies!
Haha, don’t worry, I don’t judge - it’s only my language learners who I hold to exceptionally high standards! Funnily enough, I used to have so many grammar and language pet hates when I was younger, but now there are so few that truly bother me - all the missplaced apostrophes, split infinitives, dangling participles, less/fewer…who cares, right? People love arguing about these things.
I will have a future post though where I complain about a few words I dislike, from a linguistic and philosophical point of view.
I never see mistakes in your writing!
🤣🤣🤣 you are being kind !!!
Thank you, Daniel - for making me smile, relax and think at the same time every time (sorry for tautology) while reading/listening you!!i It's LITERALLY only yours unique ability to do so, i swear! And I'm not overexagarating and overestimating! And I strongly believe, claim and promote - you are an Expert in making the complicated things easier and closer - everything: English language, life lessons, experience.
Honestly (don't like this word because it almost always means 'dishonestly '), your articles are LITERALLY only one thing I can read in English now and I do love to read them.
Living in UK for almost 2 years has caused an 'allergy ' to English because I feel overwhelmed with it and with lots of 'native speakers around with different accents and level of empathy (o, gush, Irish accent), who are sometimes so lazy to understand me 🤭
And this yours exact note about pronunciation!!! Why nobody cares about this but you only?! Sometimes I have so much to say to others and I have so many words that I can LITERALLY read in my mind - but have no clue how to pronounce them correctly, that is why I'm often down to A1 level trying to explain what I want to say.
Sorry for whining, I didn't want to make so - just wanted to express my admiration for your articles and I can’t imagine what amazing your book will be👍
Is this sentence a Bonus Challenge ?
'Next week: important book updates and, hopefully, I will have some news on the cover. Stay tuned'? - hope, I'm wrong because it seems to me everything is correct 🙈
Zhenia, honestly (ha ha!) you are way too kind, but I'm happy to hear your lovely feedback and at least I know a few of my readers enjoy and appreciate this nonsense I write! (And believe me: I'm no expert - in my next post, very soon, I will tell a couple of stories about times I got things wrong or just lied to students!)
It's so easy for teachers to say 'don't worry about making mistakes' (etc), but it's easier said than done, right? It's perfectly natural to fear making mistakes and saying the wrong thing, or mispronouncing a word. And still's very cliche to say this, but you won't know unless you try. If I'm trying to speak Ukrainian (and I talk about this in more depth in my book), because it's phonetic I can pretty much pronounce most words. Sure, I may get the stress wrong, but the pronunciation rules are consistent. Not so with English. So you just have to take a chance on a word, and hopefully you'll have a sympathetic listener who will 'gently' correct you. Trust me - even I and plenty of other native speakers occasionally mispronounce a word, especially one we even say in print.
Another thing - you might get British (or Irish) speakers who will 'correct' American English pronunciation. When we say 'correct', that often means 'criticise': "What a ridiculous way to say 'bath'!"
You are most certainly not whining, just expressing your thoughts, and expressing them well. I can feel the emotion in your words. I hope my book lives up to your expectations, whenever it's finished.
Here's the bonus challenge sentence (I didn't make it very clear in my post, and I explained the challenge badly, I might need to reshare it):
Although, I’m prety confidant, but Im also absolutly teriffied that I had made a tons of miskates in me book.
There you go, see if you can identify the 10 or 11 mistakes - good luck!