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From: Hung Ng <hung93@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Is this correct?
Newsgroups: alt.languages.english
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:18:39 +1100
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migmam wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I need your help.
> Is that essay correct?
> Please feel free to respond with comments. Thank you.
>
> Essay:
> I have thought that I have to practice more translating from my mother
> tongue to english and I think that it only can be done writting or
> speaking.
>
> Speaking is difficult in my own country because there are few people that
> speak english. So my unique chance to practise is to write or think in
> english.
>
> Today is saturday I have bought this morning an MP3 player to listen to an
bought instead of "have bought" because you addressed this morning
> english program that I record every night from the Internet.
> It's very cute and it has a lot of functions. It can record my own voice
"It's very cute" This is not wrong but it is too girly for me. It is
nice/beautiful or "It looks good" would be better
> with an external microphone and also it has a cable that you can connect
> to a radio and record directly.
>
> It is going to be very useful for me because with it I will be able to be
> listening during all day to radio programs in English and I will get used
> to the english spoken at a normal speed. Because listen to an english
listeing to an english
teacher
> teacher is easy because he/she speaks in a slow way but that is quite
try to avoid repetion of word "beacause"
> different than when you have to talk to someone in english in a daily
> situation.
That's all i got . I hope i can help you out a bit though i am not good at
writing at all. Writing is hard , isnt it ? Try to use english as much as
you can , practice makes thing perfect that's my advice .
G'luck with your study.
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