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CalifJim wrote:I read somewhere that Mario Pei, the linguist, tried to learn a different language every year. He supposedly claimed that Vietnamese was the most difficult. CJ I disagree with the linguist Mario Pei not because I am a Vietnamese. It is because I have seen, in my...

THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN OUR SOCIETY Human beings are social animals who live together and by their nature can’t isolate themselves in the place where they dwell which is called society. The society whose inhabitants we are is of two types: the rural society and the urban society. By gender, a...

Analyse the formality of the article in SCMP It is indispensable for us to use an appropriate style when writing. There is no doubt that formal style should be practiced for newspaper as objectivity and impersonality are important. South China Morning Post is one of the most prevalent...

I was recently requested by a recruitment agency to provide them with my CV, so they will be able to find me a job. I have prepared this CV for that propose. I highly appreciate if you review my CV and tell me about every kind of errors that I have made from the content to style, even...

Julielai wrote: George Orwell wrote:Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated,...

Just a few thoughts: I don't think most native speakers would ever actually think "I can understand what he said, but I don't speak like that". However, if your English is quite broken and/or hard to understand, native speakers might think to themselves (or comment to others) "Man! He's really...

Dear Sushi*, I'm not a professional but as a reader you know I certainly have something to say. This is my personal opinion about your poem. Maybe it's right and maybe it's wrong. But it's really what I feel about what you wrote. Honestly, I like your poem a lot and I like the vocabulary you...

Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Exactly! Selecter wrote: Anonymous wrote: I personally have a funny way to remember a vocabulary--I try to remember it as a picture. For example, if vocabulary is a new word for me, I focus my eyes on the whole word, then I close my eyes and force myself recall the whole word together with...

Anonymous wrote:I personally have a funny way to remember a vocabulary--I try to remember it as a picture. For example, if vocabulary is a new word for me, I focus my eyes on the whole word, then I close my eyes and force myself recall the whole word together with its shape, then I open eyes...