English As A Second Language.

[bullet08]

Wasn't born in US. So obviously, English isn't my native tongue. Korean is. Even over 40 years in US, English isn't exactly easy. But that has to be my language skill. Wasn't much good with Korean either. Articles are mostly missing, and sometimes spelling ain't much good. But found a new problem.

When making post on the forum, I'm so busy typing, my mind goes ahead of what I'm typing. Sometimes, I proof read. Mostly, I don't. I realized now I'm skipping out whole words in my posts. If I catch it, I'll edit. But it suck if I miss the window for the edit. I'm thinking that was a good post. Then 30 min later find out I can't believe I wrote that shit with words missing and not make any sense.

 

[mingc]

I do that all the time. I wouldn't it. Heh.

 

[mso489]

Oh, brother, you do so well in your second language. And I do greatly admire it. I struggled for years in high school to master French, which isn't that removed from English, and all to no avail. I loved the sound of it. I greatly admire people who become conversant in it. But after passing my one language course in college I left it alone.

My brother-in-law grew up in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is conversant in more than several languages -- Dutch of course, English, German, French, and at least conversational Russian and probably some Spanish. It is a true gift if you acquire languages with some facility. When I was a teenager, I could approximate a number of foreign accents ... big deal.

 

[kcghost]

Hey buddy, believe me we all do that.

 

[warren]

You do better than some of our native born and US schooled members. In fact you handle the language very well.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Hey bullet ssi, it could be worse. English could be your mother tongue but with an Australian accent

 

[DKpiper]

I understand your problem.
I'm from Denmark and are NOT used to write in english - so I make a lot of misspeling and stupid things.
Just keep going

 

[ashdigger]

American born and raised, almost 60, I’m still trying to get the hang of English.


Your doing much more gooder than me.

 

[OzPiper]

Hey bullet ssi, it could be worse. English could be your mother tongue but with an Australian accent

I'll leave it at "pot calling the kettle ......" Eh

 

[tklee]

Same here bro. I'm a Malaysian Chinese, even sometimes when I wrote in Chinese, I have the same mistake

 

[didimauw]

You do better than some of our native born and US schooled members. In fact you handle the language very well.

Yeah I agree. I was born in the US, and lived here my whole 33 years. And I'm still not good at speaking English. Some of the things I say in person makes people wonder about me

 

[sablebrush52]

Wasn't born in US. So obviously, English isn't my native tongue. Korean is. Even over 40 years in US, English isn't exactly easy. But that has to be my language skill. Wasn't much good with Korean either. Articles are mostly missing, and sometimes spelling ain't much good. But found a new problem.

When making post on the forum, I'm so busy typing, my mind goes ahead of what I'm typing. Sometimes, I proof read. Mostly, I don't. I realized now I'm skipping out whole words in my posts. If I catch it, I'll edit. But it suck if I miss the window for the edit. I'm thinking that was a good post. Then 30 min later find out I can't believe I wrote that shit with words missing and not make any sense.

Is there any other way to post?

 

[AJL67]

Wasn't born in US. So obviously, English isn't my native tongue. Korean is. Even over 40 years in US, English isn't exactly easy. But that has to be my language skill. Wasn't much good with Korean either. Articles are mostly missing, and sometimes spelling ain't much good. But found a new problem.

When making post on the forum, I'm so busy typing, my mind goes ahead of what I'm typing. Sometimes, I proof read. Mostly, I don't. I realized now I'm skipping out whole words in my posts. If I catch it, I'll edit. But it suck if I miss the window for the edit. I'm thinking that was a good post. Then 30 min later find out I can't believe I wrote that shit with words missing and not make any sense.

"I wasn't born in the U.S. .."

We'd need an entire form for everyone to talk about how they eff up posts and the time limit lock is a bitch sometimes!

 

[tklee]

Is there any other way to post?

Write in Microsoft Word first, spell check, gramma check everything, then only post

 

[Coreios]

I've seen a lot of your post, haven't noticed it.

 

[Grangerous]

English Major and even I’m not immune to errors.

Have you ever said, “take a park in the walk” when you’d meant to say, “take a walk in the park?”

It happened to me again this week. I saw my wife and I’d meant to say, “Honey, I love you” — but, it came out, “you fking bitch, you’ve ruined my whole damned life!”

 

[anotherbob]

no one really understands English good anyways. So many of the rules aren't even really documented, just kind of seem more like that's just how people speak and write.

 

[anotherbob]

English Major and even I’m not immune to errors.

Have you ever said, “take a park in the walk” when you’d meant to say, “take a walk in the park?”

It happened to me again this week. I saw my wife and I’d meant to say, “Honey, I love you” — but, it came out, “you fking bitch, you’ve ruined my whole damned life!”

I don't think English is the issue.

 

[crashthegrey]

Plenty of first language English speakers are much worse.

 

[didimauw]

English Major and even I’m not immune to errors.

Have you ever said, “take a park in the walk” when you’d meant to say, “take a walk in the park?”

It happened to me again this week. I saw my wife and I’d meant to say, “Honey, I love you” — but, it came out, “you fking bitch, you’ve ruined my whole damned life!”

It's that damn autocorrect! Hate when that happens!