First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hello everyone, I'm a student from China. I speak Chinese and want to polish my English skill here. It's my pleasure to help other people, learn English and

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First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hello everyone, I'm a student from China. I speak Chinese and want to polish my English skill here. It's my pleasure to help other people, learn English and make friends in Italki. :)

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First notebook entry: Introducing myself

Hello everyone,

I'm a student from China. I speak Chinese and I want to polish my English skills here. ~~It's my pleasure~~1to I like helping other people, learning English and make friends in Italki. :)

1. "It's my pleasure..." is used in formal writing. Since you are writing in an informal style of introducing yourself, "I like" would be a better term to use. Also this term has a very subtle meaning... "I am better than you in some respects" or in a higher position speaking courteously to someone lower than you are. In this context, your meaning comes across as, "I am better helping people than you." Same as in Chinese words of 耠, 賜, 呈, 献 etc. all have the basic meaning but different subtleties.

You are the first mainland Chinese whose English I corrected, have gotten all the technical aspects of the language correct. Such as proper spacing after punctuation marks and capitalization of "I". It is my pleasure to correct your writing! (ie my command of English is better than yours :) )

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