In Translation^x, Learning English^x

Anonymous wrote: I'm Anon2. This thread is finally moving into interesting territory for the teaching/learning of English. What Anon1 seems to be implying is that NO categories can be assumed to be cross-linguistically valid. For instance, this comment: "Whereas when you claim that Thai...

It just take time. I am a non-native speaker of English. I started learning English seven years ago; during first few years I was unable to understand English directly. I needed to translate it in my native language. Then I started to understand many things without translation as I got familiar...

Hello guys. I asked for the help, but I did not have a chance to finish my work and post it here, 'cause I was on business trip. Now I am back and I have finished my essay. I will appreciate if someone could give his/her opinion on my work. It might need corrections - structure, word order,...

Thanks for replying, I 'm suggesting that this wonderful website could grow by adding some sections for translating into the most popular languages taught on schools as a 2nd language which are Spanish and French but I know that there are lot of people who speak Portuguese, German and Italian....

Well, she does write in French and this book was probably translated in English but i really don't understand why you think translations aren't good for learning english. I assure you it is an accurate and good, clean translation. I read this book because it was a compulsory reading in my English...

would you like to improve your chinese if you are an english teacher or to-be teacher in shanghai but troubled by the language barriers and the different culture. Then we can help each other.I am now learning English-chinese translation for my master degree in a shanghai universityand want to ...

Here's another way of looking at it, Jack. As you say in another place, native speakers use mixed conditionals all the time. In speech, for instance, speakers often change conditional types in mid sentence – not because they want to express a subtle distinction, but because speech is by its...

Sorry, my mistake. I misunderstood the intonation of your statement completely. I thought you meant that bilinguilism would only be good for a developing brain, and would produce no effects on a developed brain. Clearly you did not mean that at all. My observations of my daughter lead me to...

Hello Casi I made so big a mistake! I should have written "Please leave me go now!". I'm surprised to know many moderators here are in Japan. Speaking truth, I'm merely an educator in civil engineering fields (wastewater treatment) and now learning English to fill my gap I made in school days....