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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

Postby rfnsoares » Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:54 pm

aaleks wrote:I'll quote my own post from another forum. I wrote it today. It's in Russian.

"...сейчас мне порой даже интересней писать на английском и именно потому, что у английского другая логика в целом, хотя порой и кажется, что он не так уж и отличается от русского. ...

...для меня это две большие разницы - читать, или слушать, и восхищаться "красотой игры" и употреблять понравившееся в своей речи. Я могу выписать, выучить, отработать, но так никогда и не употребить фразу, которую я видела где-то один раз, т.к. не буду уверена, в каких случаях она действительно уместа. Для меня этот момент важен. Может еще потому, что я все же не С2 в английском, и за носителя я не сойду все равно. Поэтому я предпочитаю использовать широко употребимые фразы. Better safe than sorry, so to speak. Если же я встретила какое-то выражение несколько раз, хотя бы потому что я смотрела один и тот же фильм или сериал несколько раз, я его все равно запомню, со всем контекстом и эмоциями. Буду ли я его употреблять - это уже другой вопрос. ..."

This is almost the same thought as in the post above only from a bit different angle. And the first sentence is about that now it's sometimes more interesting for me to write in English. This is weird taking in account my first negative experience of writing in English but this is true - not too long time ago I realized that I like writing in English even though it's still, as I said above, the go-out-of-the-comfort-zone situation. I don't feel confident in my writing, grammar, word choices. I keep finding very stupid and basic mistakes in my posts. And still the process of expressing myself using a different logic, but at the same not too different, keeps me interested. And I think that I simply like the logic of the English language even though I often fail to understand it :)


Ты (можно на ты? :) ) уже пишешь прекрасные тексты на английском. На мой взгляд, тебе все равно точно оценить свой уровень, если только собираешься сдавать экзамены по какой-либо причине (например, по причине работы). Тебе нужно сметь писать независимые тексты от фильмов и не полагаться на зто. Конечно же, тебе будет нужно чтобы кто-то исправил свои предложения.

Осторожно, я совершил много ошибок! :lol:
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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

Postby Ani » Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:40 pm

Americans, for sure, and I'd wager most English speakers across the globe, don't have a possessive feeling about the English language. We like that you (general) speak it, even, or especially as a non--native. Through the oppressive monolingualism of English language speaking cultures right now, you're not only welcome to speak English, we expect it from you. See, that expectation is your invitation. You don't have to worry about impersonating anybody.

Some cultures are fairly closed and wondering if you'd be accepted as a speaker of the language, or seen as an impersonator, is a realistic concern. Not the case for English, I can assure you.

Also, I really don't think saying things in a native like way is necessarily the same as saying them succinctly... I think that's a personality thing more than anything. Foreign ways of saying things actually infiltrate American speech -- we have nothing against hearing ideas expressed "in a non native way". Sometimes we prefer it to our own.
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Re: Just a log (English, Italian)

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