just rambling
A few weeks ago I wrote a text in English for my blog, but I'd ike to know, how many mistakes are there, what are they and does this text look acceptable.
Well, it’s time. I wrote it earlier, and now it’s time to do it. Writing posts in English. I feel that any stranger who suddenly comes across my blog will sertainly check my knowledge of English. I feel like I’m a schoolgirl at the age of 15 and I’m writing a test on English. Everyone would judge my writing skills. I know that’s nonsense, but I can’t help it. I know that I just should not take too seriously, all these language stuff, but anyway, that’s it. Well, everything’s fine. I noticed that I started to forget how to spell some words (for 2 minutes I was trying to remember how to spell “certain”, though I certainly remembered how to pronounce it, but I forgot all the vowels in the word). A friend of mine, an American girl, once said me, that my English is not colloquial, but it’s not academic either, it’s just like from English textbooks for the learners of English. It’s quite obvious, well, I’m not a native speaker, and I used to read textbooks and to do exercises from them. And I have little experience of speaking to native speakers. The most dissapointing thing is that it seems to me that I’ll never learn how to express myself on the same level as I do it in Russian. In Russian I’m able to change styles and switch different language levels, but in English I can’t, and it seems that I just write something typical and, hm, let’s say, in school-like language, and that makes me sad. I can’t get my fear of being judged out, I know, I’ll be waiting for some blaming comments, though I know that nobody here reads me and there is nothing I should be afraid of.
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just rambling
A few weeks ago I wrote a text in English for my blog, but I'd like to know how many mistakes there are, what they are and whether this text looks acceptable.Well, it’s time. I wrote it earlier, and now it’s time to do it. Writing posts in English. I feel that any stranger who suddenly comes across my blog will certainly check my knowledge of English. I feel like a schoolgirl at the age of 15, writing a test on English. Everyone will judge my writing skills. I know that’s nonsense, but I can’t help it. I know that I just should not take too seriously, all this language stuff, but anyway, that’s it. Well, everything’s fine. I noticed that I started to forget how to spell some words (for 2 minutes I was trying to remember how to spell “certain”, though I certainly remembered how to pronounce it, but I forgot all the vowels in the word). A friend of mine, an American girl, once said me, that my English is not colloquial, but it’s not academic either. It’s just like from English textbooks for the learners of English. It’s quite obvious, since I’m not a native speaker, and I used to read textbooks and to do exercises from them. I have little experience of speaking to native speakers. The most disappointing thing is that it seems to me that I’ll never learn how to express myself on the same level as I do in Russian. In Russian I’m able to change styles and switch different language levels, but in English I can’t. It seems that I just write something typical and, hm, let’s say, in school-like language, and that makes me sad. I can’t get over my fear of being judged. I know I’ll be waiting for some blaming comments, though I know that nobody here reads me and there is nothing I should be afraid of.
Hi Viola, In addition to some grammar and spelling, I corrected where you ran on your sentences a bit. Mostly it's very good. If you have any questions about what I corrected or changed, contact me any time.
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