This makes me feel sad
I'm not a teacher, so I know nothing about teaching others how to speak my own language. Even so, once a while I come to Italki to help others with their questions/texts in spanish. I try my best to explain to others some basic and simple spanish facts, because I feel like I shouldn't get into grammar or more complex issues. I'm cool with that.
What really peases me off is reading some "corrections" with grammar or spelling mistakes. That's really sad because of 2 main reasons:
1.- The person trying to help is making mistakes in his own mother tongue and he/she didn't even realize it.
2.- The person trying to help didn't care enough to check his own spelling/grammar when correcting other people's mistakes. Sometimes it looks like some people just try to get the correction done as quickly as possible and leave it half done.
Both of these options might confuse that one person who was just trying to learn another language. It's very frustrating.
It didn't happen to me, I just see it now and then happening in spanish corrections.
¿What do you think?
(Ps: My grammar is way better in spanish that it is in english, I promise.)
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This makes me feel sad
I'm not a teacher so I know nothing about teaching others how to speak my own language. Even so, once a while I come to Italki to help others with their questions or texts in Spanish. I try my best to explain to others some basic and simple Spanish facts, because I feel like I shouldn't get into grammar or more complex issues. I'm cool with that.What really pisses me off* is reading some "corrections" with grammar or spelling mistakes. That's really sad because of 2 reasons:
1.- The person trying to help is making mistakes in their own mother tongue that they don't even see.
2.- The person trying to help didn't care enough to check their own spelling or grammar when correcting the essayist's mistakes. Sometimes it looks like some people just try to get the correction done as quickly as possible leaving it half done.
Both these possibilities might confuse the note-writer who is just trying to learn another language. It's very frustrating.
It hasn't yet happened to me. I just see it now and then happening in Spanish corrections.
What do you think?
(PS: my grammar is way better in Spanish than it is in English, I promise.)
*or, (more polite) what really annoys me is ...
Very well written!
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