Why so formal ?
Why people are so formal here ? I mean, when you mean someone here, you really have to be very formal ? When someone send me a message I always try to be very nice and friendly in order to make the other person comfortable but I noticed amny people here are very formal and it makes me feel very uncomfortable, as if I were bothering them...
Are you usually very formal with people you talk to on Italki ? Do you feel comfortable speaking with very formal people ?
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They say that your personality changes whenever you speak a different language because language is tied to culture and how you express your thoughts and sentiments, something which you can't quite do as eloquently as you do in your own native language :D
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Why so formal ?
Why people are are people so formal here ? I mean, when you mean meet someone here, you really have to be very formal do you really have to be so formal? When someone send sends me a message, I always try to be very nice and friendly in order to make the other person comfortable. bBut I noticed amny many people here are very formal and it makes me feel very uncomfortable, as if I were bothering them...Are you usually very formal with people you talk to on Italki ? Do you feel comfortable speaking with very formal people ?
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In Russian I'm.. different:) I mean, my defferent messages and comments are different in tone/mood/style.
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When I write in English, i'm often formal. Not always though... Unfortunately, all my English comes from the books I read so I don't know many ways to be informal. Another thing is that English speakers don't understand my jokes (and even the most innocent of them are found offensive sometimes:)) and initially, when I used to put my thoughts down the way I do in Russian - I mean the way I organized and structured my comments, things which I write and things I don't write as 'obvious' etc., not the grammar - they mostly never understood me at all:) On the forum I received lots of upvotes this time and downvotes that time none of which I deserved.
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Why so formal ?
Why people are so formal here ? I mean, when you mean someone here, you really have to be very formal ? When someone send me a message, I always try to be very nice and friendly, in order to make the other person comfortable, but I noticed many people here are very formal and it makes me feel very uncomfortable, as if I were bothering them...Are you usually very formal with people you talk to on Italki ? Do you feel comfortable speaking with very formal people ?
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