By Conversations, Numbers

Re: Native-speaker/native language

Linguistic anthropologists categorize bilingualism into a number of categories, and 'true bilinguals' are extremely rare. I remember being in college studying linguistic anthropology and having a roommate who was unable to speak, read, or write beyond an elementary school level in FOUR...

Re: Native-speaker/native language

It would be interesting to examine whether the slight difference in character is less pronounced in those who learned the second language at an early age. (If there are indeed fewer differences in the way the languages are stored, in such cases, you would think so.)MrP

Re: Native-speaker/native language

The idea of bilingualism seems mostly to fascinate those who are not bilingual. I have seen estimates that about half the world's population is bilingual, so for many it is pretty normal and I do not expect they think about it. In monolingual communities there are many who say they do not...

Re: Proper use of O'clock

Half past three o'clock is wrong. It is either half past three or three thirty.O'clock is used with the numbers 1 to 12 when telling the time, to mean an exact hour. It is quite common not only in formal context but also in daily conversation.

Phone Friends

Hi every one... Who wanna be friend through phone calling and have a direct conversation? or maybe you like to send SMSes to each other... write your mobile number here!

Re: closing

Hi, You have a very large number of mistakes in your writing. There are so many that I don't always understand your meaning. Let me just try to correct the first few sentences. Corrections are in red and parts that I don't understand are underlined. Clive Your table is correct but you...

Re: Please check my short story

Well, here is my shot at your story. I split it up into separate sentences to make it easier to work on. My comments and suggestions are in square brackets under each of your original sentences.I boarded a train from Mumbai heading towards Pune.

Can someone look over my essay ? thank you so much

Internet is recently one of the fast, convenient ways for people to communicate with other people around the world. Especially with social networking sites, people are now able to create their own world online. They can do all the things they want to do even things they cant do them in their...

Re: projection

This is a conversation between two people. One is named "Dominic" and the other is named "Lex," as in Lex Luthor, Superman's famous nemesis. Companies keep their records on a monthly basis, as well as on a yearly basis, but they have to send figures to the government...

confused about 'would'

I know 'would' carries many meanings. My problem is sometimes I find it difficult to tell which meaning the speaker uses. I think I understand its hypothetical usage, and in some contexts, its politeness usage. Below is a post that has several woulds I have trouble interpreting. I also...