As you see daily in MyEC, many new members are coming & going.
I've been personally trying to help members or friends as many as possible for their need with my own limited ability, but as English is not my native language, I can only encourage them staying with us a bit longer but I know this wouldn't be enough for many of them. What I am trying to do is to be as friendly as possible to keep them staying with us, learn things together and have a better language skill in writing.
On the top of this, I try to correct some of their English too, whenever I see their repetitive mistakes in error, but not in public, only by private mails on the basis of their request or agreeing with each other.
So, how can we help each other for our future improvements?
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Hi, Mona!
Thanks for your reply.....I really appreciate that you agreed with me, as you also have the same experiences. As you said, you hated learning or studying English at the beginning but when you got yourself interested in learning it through your curiosity, it wan't harder than you thought and now you really want to improve your English. Hence, keep it up!
'...that's made me believe that what we learnt by our feelings it's hard to forget it easily' is absolutely true, and I totally agree with you, as this is a living English you are actually learning & improving.
Hi, Lovestar!
Thanks for participating with your own opinion on this said subject! What you suggested is totally agreeable and I don't have any objection against it. If many of us are willingly participate any subject & contribute their opinions and somebody as a native speaker is voluntarily correcting our Englishes, this would be ideally perfect for our future improvements, but how many of us have had great benefits or advantages by the group discussion or topic discussion. I believe this will be a small minority, yes, of course, some people will have a great advantage from it while others won't.
So as for me, I have had so much benefits from this method 'A stream of consciousness' or 'a delay tactic in expressions', which I am going to tell you now, as these are my suggestions in principle;
1) to make a friend (a pure friend, nothing else) who you can share many things (even your personal things) together with each other in promoting a real friendship.
2) to consistently write each other on the daily basis (even a short note) through email system (MyEC mailing system or other email system), telling each other like a real communication with your real feelings, such as how you feel now, or what you are doing now, or what you are going to do....& so on.
3) also to write your own blogs.
4) to comment each other on their blogs or their profiles.
When you comply with the above mentioned suggestions, however, you should consider and pay more careful attention to the following important parts to absorb the maximum benefits from them;
1) You should freely express yourself in anything & everything whatever you have in mind.
2) You shouldn't rush in writing, but slowly think of your own expressions & type them down.
3) You should check & correct your writings yourself as you cautiously read each sentences once more before you write down a next one. This is a very important part because you are learning English yourself.
4) When you read your friend's letters or writings, you may see or recognize their mistakes (at the beginning it may be lesser but gradually more in your recognition), so if it's repetitive, then you'd better tell your friend with the correction. 5) Importantly your should try to learn your friend's expression & memorize some of them if you can, to use it for your writing when you have a chance.
As we all have a same goal under the one umbrella here in MyEC to learn & improve our English fluently in writing & speaking, why don't you give a try? If you do so, I am 110% sure that you will experience such a wonderful benefit in a joy.
Should you have any question regarding this subject, please feel free to contact me (leaving a message on my profile or just leaving your reply here, whichever you like).