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Most learners want their writings to be corrected by a Teacher of English, an English Native Speaker, or at least a member who's fluent in English. But you may see this rarely happen here. Have you ever thought why? Hey, who doesn’t want to be taught English freely?? Your writing may be understandable enough. Maybe it's about the language, not always the grammar. I think it would be a hard work to correct all the writings by the non-English Native Speakers. :)

You’re very enthusiastic in learning English here. You made an effort to write something you like and tagged or asked for correction, hoping that your post would be corrected. Time passed by and now you have many blogs without any corrections. Will you stop asking for correction, feel doing useless effort, or even hate EC? Oh, please don’t! :)

In fact, as I observed, members who are really active and very careful to make correction are in the lower level of English than those I mentioned. In this case, sometimes you may doubt and need to learn further for the correction. It seems to me that is okay. You must appreciate it and try to TEACH YOURSELVES.

Learning English needs a lot of patience and miles to go to master it. Every time I posted a blog post hastily, I would make a review several times since there might be many grammar mistakes, though I didn’t get any corrections. I did my own correction to improve my English skill by looking into the book or internet search, so that I would make it better next time. Almost all my blogs have correction tag or I asked for correction in sentence. I truly meant it. I expected to have corrections and actually not only from the higher level than me. So, if anyone finds an error, do let me know. I would really appreciate it. Just when you make corrections to me or others blogs, it'd be better to make sure that your corrections are reasonable. Correcting English is NOT ALWAYS EASY.

I, myself is a non-English Native Speaker, whose level is just upper-intermediate, maybe, :D. So, it’s so natural that I make mistakes time to time, especially when commenting. But sometimes, the soul of teaching in me can’t let the thing I’ve learnt be. When I see the correction tag or if anybody asks correction, I will try to find the errors VERY CAREFULLY. I won’t say anything when I’m not sure. I only fix grammar errors based on my skill. This is also the way of learning.

One of my experiences, I commented on the discussion about grammar. There I explained about the grammar I’ve learnt, but there was a doubt in the one who asked. Then, Mr. Jeffrey Raven, a fluent teacher of English justified my explanation. How happy I was! This encouraged me to learn and teach more. Thank you, Sir Jeffrey. :) 

Here I just want to tell you all my dear friends, who really want to improve your English … 

Keep asking for corrections!

Let’s learn together by teaching (reminding) each other and TEACH OURSELVES.

The best way to learn is 'FINDING the mistakes and NOT DOING it anymore'.

Teachers or English Native Speaker's tips or helps would be the gift for us.

Thank you very much for reading and I would like to have your opinions. :)