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My research

Hello, everybody!

Do you have an (I think 'do you have' expects collective or plural answer, so no 'an' but if you asked Have you had then 'an' or 'any' would be fine) experience in participating in some great project, being a part of something really great and meaningful?

A month ago I started my blog for English learners. But the truth is I'm not the best teacher, as English is not my native language. It's far from being perfect since But I don't think in English and that's why my phrasing is often incorrect. I used to learn from textbooks, not anymore; (needs a stronger pause, so semi-colon) but many-many-many people around the world still do. And it means that their English will never sound natural. Unless they get some help. (you're over-using conjunctions at the start of sentences - occasion is ok)

I believe that together we can help millions of people out there with their English. If we share our experience and everybody makes (everybody is singular) a small but priceless contribution, it will all make a difference.

All I ask of you is to share a particular story or an example, from your own experience, of interacting with non-native English speakers, that made you think "what? We would never say it this way" (it would be a long stretch read aloud in a single breath, so some comma pauses helps the breath and the eye). Maybe just a phrase, an expression used incorrectly or in wrong situation, and your suggestion as to what should have been used instead.

I'll give you a small example.
All our text books teach that you should say "how do you do?", which is in fact less commonly used  than "how are you doing?", "how are you?" or "how's life?" (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) :)) (is this '))' a Russian smiley perhaps?) 
Or as my friend from Canada told me: 'if you are at the kitchen table with your friend and you ask him to pass a spoon, you wouldn't say "Give me a spoon, please", you'd rather say "Have you got a spoon" ' (which surprised me very much). (That's perhaps just a Canadian version - we'd say 'May/could I have a spoon please' or 'please pass me a spoon')

All these little things are very important. And Since (it seems) nobody has done anything/something similar before I decided to make start a research project, collect these things and share with people.

So now I ask you for a bit of help. I've already sent hundreds of requests and got many replies answers. Some cases are unique, some repeat occur over and over again proving that this work is really gonna (wrong tone I feel) be something of value, and it will help many people.

I truly believe that natives are best teachers of a language (how about Nabokov, or Joseph Conrad), so I'll appreciate your contribution very much. And I'm gonna thank you not just personally but make a list of those who contributed most of all, and make it an inseparable/integral part of my research. I'm sure you are gonna be on that list.

So please use this template, spend several a few minutes, and help millions of people improve their English!

Name, age,
occupation,
city, country

Your example (a little story, an expression etc.)

Thank you very much and see you soon!

Best regards
Vika