Writing in other languages Writing a good text is not an easy job at all, especially if you have to do it in a language that is not your mother tongue. There are many different cultural aspects and so

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Susana

Writing in other languages Writing a good text is not an easy job at all, especially if you have to do it in a language that is not your mother tongue. There are many different cultural aspects and some little technical details that make you get wrong. In spite of knowing well a foreign language, you are always tempted to use these expressions or words that come from your native one, by doing a quick mental translation. It sometimes produces something that makes no sense in the other language. However, it is worth to take the risk because these little mistakes, when are corrected, are the key to our success. They help us improve every day, step-by-step, as if we were children learning how to walk.

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Writing in other languages

Writing a good text is not an easy job at all, especially if you have to do it in a language that is not your mother tongue. There are many different cultural aspects and some little technical details that make you write something wrong. In spite of knowing well a foreign language, you are always tempted to use these expressions or words that come from your native tongue*, by doing a quick mental translation. It sometimes produces something that makes no sense in the other language.

However, it is worth to take the risk because these little mistakes, when corrected, are the key to our success. They help us improve every day, step-by-step, as if we were children learning how to walk.

*native tongue: lo que escribiste "native one" es correcta gramaticalmente, y al parecer ya lo sabes, podemos escribir asi. Pero aqui, con la palabra "tongue" o "language" esta construccion, no suena bien. Lo siento. Otra exception de una regla. Feliz aprendizaje de ingles.

Hi Susana

I totally agree. Go for it!

I've made a few corrections to your text; well done.

Carolina

Writing in other languages

Writing a good text is not an easy task (smaller than "job") at all, especially if you have to do so (you can say "it" but "so" sounds natural) in a language that is not your mother tongue. There are many different cultural aspects at play (I felt something was lacking here) and some little technical aspects that mean you get it wrong (or "you might make a mistake"). In spite of knowing well a foreign language well, you are always tempted to use these expressions or words that come from your native language, by doing a quick mental translation. It sometimes produces something that makes no sense in the other language.

However, it is worth taking the risk because these little mistakes, when are corrected, are the key to our success. They help us improve every day, step by step, as if we were children learning how to walk.

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