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Slowly but steadily I'm so happy that so many people correct my posts. There are very helpful. I used to feel that I didn't want to write in English because there must be a lot of mistakes, but now I've become to think that I should write something even if there are a lot of mistakes. I don't understand or speak fluent English, but my mother was able to understand it. In addition, she understood German. She was also very diligent, curious, and had intelligence. She was always reading the books and was listening to foreign language practicing program on radio every day. Somehow, I didn't receive her intelligence gene. We didn't had the internet until late, so she didn't use the internet that much. If she find this kind of language exchange site, I'm sure she would be happy to study with every day. Compared to her, I'm not a diligent person and have less intelligent, but I'll try to write in English which I'm not very good at every day, slowly but steadily.

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Slowly but steadily

I'm so happy that so many people correct my posts. They are very helpful. I used to feel that I didn't want to should not write in English because there must be a lot of mistakes, but now I've become begun to think that I should write something even if there are a lot of mistakes.1

I don't understand or speak fluent English, unlike my but mother, who was able to understand it. In addition, she was able to understand German. She was also very diligent, curious, and intelligent. had intelligence. She was always reading the books and listened was listening to foreign language practicing program on radio every day.2 Somehow, I didn't receive her intelligence gene.

We didn't had have the internet until late, so she didn't have the opportunity to use the internet that much. If she find had found this kind of language exchange site, I'm sure, she would have been very happy to study with it every day.3

Compared to her, I'm not a diligent person and have less intelligence intelligent, but I'll try to write in English every day though which I'm not very good at it, every day slowly but steadily.

 

1. "I used to feel reluctant to write in English........., but now I think that...." would be a better alternative.


2. For things that were done regulary in the past, we can normally use "used to" " would" or simple past tense.

  e.g. She used to read every day.           He used to play every day.

        She would read every day.              He would play every day.

        She read every day.                       He played everyday. 


Also, one more thing I would like to point out that "was listening" or "was reading" is not a passive voice as stated by one of the viewers here.

Active voice: She was reading a book.  She was listening to a song.

Passive voice: A book was being read by her. A song was being listened to by her.


As stated above, here one can use simple past tense (and not the past progressive tense.) e.g. She always read the books and listened to....


3. If she had found....., she would have been...... This is known as third conditional. We can use the Third Conditional to talk about 'impossible' conditions, impossible because they are in the past and we cannot change what has happened.

 

Here the sentence structure is "If ........ past perfect.........., would have + past participle"

If I had won the lottery, I would have gone to China. (I had a lottery ticket, but I could not win.)

If she had been consistent in her studies, she would have studied further. (She was not consistent in her studies.)

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Slowly but steadily

I'm so happy that so many people correct my posts. There are very helpful. I used to feel that I didn't want to write in English because there must be a lot of mistakes, but now I've become to think that I should write something even if there are a lot of mistakes.

I don't understand or speak fluent English, but my mother was able to understand it. In addition, she understood German. She was also very diligent, curious, and had intelligence. She was always reading the books and was listening to a foreign language practicing program on the radio every day. Somehow, I didn't receive her intelligence gene.

We didn't had the internet until late, so she didn't use the internet that much. If she found this kind of language exchange site, I'm sure she would be happy to study with it every day.

Compared to her, I'm not a diligent person and have less intelligent, but I'll try to write in English which I'm not very good at every day and improve, slowly but steadily.

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Slowly but steadily

I'm so happy that so many people correct my posts. There are very helpful. I used to feel that I didn't want to write in English because there must be a lot of mistakes, but now I've become to think that I should write something even if there are a lot of mistakes.

I don't understand or speak fluent English, but my mother was able to understand it. In addition, she understood German. She was also very diligent, curious, and [intelligent] had intelligence. She was always reading the books and was listening [listened] **Try not to write in passive voice (was reading; was listening) to foreign language practicing program[s] on [the] radio every day. Somehow, I didn't receive her intelligence gene.

We didn't had [have] the internet until late, so she didn't use the internet that much. If she find [could have found] this kind of language exchange site, I'm sure she would be happy to study with every day.

Compared to her, I'm not a diligent person, and [I] have less intelligent  [intelligence], but I'll try to write in English [every day] which [even though] I'm not very good at [it] every day... slowly but steadily.(Another common phrase: "Slowly but surely.")


Ayano, 

You are doing such a great job. I am sure your mother would be very proud of you for continuing to write in English even if "there are a lot of mistakes." 

I enjoyed reading about you and her - she sounds like she was a strong, ambitious woman!

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