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Something about correcting essays
I am interested in correcting the English essay here. I myself can learn a lot from that. (嗯,是的,传说最好的学法是教)
I found that many Chinese like are correcting Chinese essays. (没有“are”,这个句子的主语就没有动词形容) I am not criticizing that. In fact, I also liked to correct foreigners' Chinese essays at first because it was so interesting to see how foreigners use my mother language. Soon I discovered that those essays always got many corrections, while English essays remained unnoticed, including my own essays. (也可以说ignored)
Thus I decided to correct English essays written by non-English speaker as long as I can. Not only can I help others but get big progress by doing so because my major in university is business English.
It is not a easy way. Most of the time when I correct the essays, I can tell the mistakes by my English intuition what the mistakes are, but I do not know how to make them right or am not sure if my corrections are right. I need to study hard.
(if you don't know whether or not to include a verb like "and" or what pronoun and verb tense to use when you have more than one clause, it's easy to consider what the sentence looks like without the other part. "but I not sure if my corrections are right" clearly needs the "am" in there to make sense :P)
There is another thing. I am learning German right now. It is a difficult language to learn, but I do like it. I have learned a lot this semester. However it is not systematical. I have to practice more. I hope I can chat with German-speakers using what I had learned in the near future.
我要说小心,如果你这样必须先说“我母语不是英文,所以不要太依靠的修改~先看看别人的!”
要不,如果你改错,他们知道说本族语人的英语比你的可靠,不会学错了。
我也说,不要怕写太长的句子,如果你的句子太短,你就听起来像个机器人~ Don't be afraid to combine sentences.
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