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An essay I wrote-proofreading appreciated

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:06:12 GMT

It was an emotional yet distant memory. Tears began to drip down my grandpaâs weary face as he firmly held my hands. He looked into my confused eyes and said something, but his voice was clouded by the hustling noises of the airport. My aunts comforted him as he reluctantly let go of me, and I followed Warren toward the gate. With every couple of steps, I would glance back at grandpaâs gloomy and wrinkled face as his image faded into the hectic crowd.

When I was only five years old, my parents left me to pursue an education in the United States. My grandparents gladly welcomed me to live with them for the next four years to come, taking care of me as if I were their second son. I loved them very much; they provided me with a blissful and memorable childhood in my parentâs absence. When grandpa informed me that I would finally be able to reunite with mom and dad, I did not know how to react. After all, I was only ten years old. Warren, my dadâs dearest friend, would accompany me on the plane ride.

My jaw dropped when I first saw the size of the plane. I curiously went up to the window as I examined its enormous wings and gargantuan body. The interior was equally astonishing, designed with two floors and countless rows. Warren carefully buckled me in after we found our seats. He smiled at me and made a gesture with his hands, simulating us blasting off. I held onto a card of simple English words like âbathroomâ and âwaterâ my cousins made me as the fourteen hour flight began. I sat anxiously in my window seat as the plane began its approach toward the blue sky. The rumbling sound beneath my feet increased endlessly as the plane lifted off, and everything down below faded into an image of the blurry flat earth.

After the movies and dinner, the sky began to grow dim as the plane quieted down. Almost everyone around me seemed to have fallen asleep. I felt alone. Then it hit me. A myriad of questions rushed into my head. Will grandpa and grandma be ok? When is the next time I will be able to see them again? Whatâs America like? How will I learn English? Feebly searching for answers, I began to shed tears, and my whimpering soon became a loud cry. Then, I felt Warrenâs arms around me; his expression was comforting, as if he understood what I was feeling. With my eyes closed, I slipped further into the seat as I tried to flush those questions out of my head.

The next thing I could recall was Warren and I walking into the greeterâs hall at the Minnesota airport. I caught my mom running towards us with the corner of my eye while my dad followed closely behind. She lifted me into the air and gave me a big hug while Warren and my dad talked. After saying good bye to Warren, my parents and I proceeded to the parking lot. The car ride to our apartment was awkward at first; my parentsâ appearances were so different from what I had remembered. I felt as if two strangers were bombarding me with questions about the plane ride. However, their familiar voices allowed me recall some of my early memories with them, like the first lullaby and the first birthday song we sang together.

It was the first day of elementary school here in the United States that made me realize how blessed I was. My parents took one of the biggest risks of their time in order to provide me with this opportunity, and I made a promise that day to value it to the fullest.

Social anxiety+poor English=failure

akstylish — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:44:22 GMT

Hello there. Let me introduce myself first.

I'm an Asian-American who went to South Korea one month after I was born in the U.S. Then I came back 5 years ago when I was a high school freshman, so I had to learn English from scratch. For the first few months my English improved pretty well, but I hadn't made any close friend and things started going bad. I became more and more shy and was eventually diagnosed with social anxiety one year later. During my high school years I only made some acquaintances and rarely hung out with anyone. I slowly developed depression as well and once attempted suicide by taking 60 sleeping pills.

Fortunately I was still able to keep the GPA and SAT scores high enough to get into a moderate college(GA Tech). My parents and relatives kept telling me life in college campus is way better than high school life despite academic pressure and told me to rest assured everything will get better.

They couldn't be more wrong.

My anxiety was so bad at that point that I could barely breathe and my whole body became stiff wherever I could see someone or vice versa. And I had to walk around buildings and streets filled with hundreds of people everyday. Even in my dorm room I couldn't relax because I had a roommate. I got so depressed during the first week I just had to hide somewhere and cry, yet there was nowhere to. I also began to have difficulty concentrating, and it took me 5 minutes to read ONE page. On top of that my English skills were about the same as back when I was a high school freshman for the obvious reason(except grammar), so I got F's on every essay for English. After a month I lost my motivation to study and failed in other classes as well.

I eventually decided to withdraw from school and concentrate on treating social anxiety and improving English at home for the following semester. However, I've already been on therapy on medications for years and tried my best to get out of social anxiety. There's gotta be at least some improvement to keep me trying. So I've been wasting my life doing nothing but websurfing and sleeping at home this entire semester. Now it's time to go back, and my English and social anxiety got even worse.(I probably spoke to someone in English thirty times or so for the last 6 months)

Well, that's my story. Just venting here...I didn't really mean to write this for advice(I've already asked for help to so many people), but I'd appreciate it.

(By the way, you might be thinking my writing skills aren't so bad. Trust me, it is terrible. It's just that for some reason my first post on a forum is always the best. Plus, it takes me hours to write a post this long.)

Re: An short essay.

Blacov — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:05:39 GMT

Thanks for your effort. Your remarks are very useful to me. I really appreciate them. Since I've never participated in an english language course, I am not really good at formal english, nor I can write essays and stuff. As you likely figured out I am a foreigner, so the reason why I posted the essay is I wanted to have it checked by a person like you. I dont mind that's in fact doesnt look like an proper essay, however I'll save your remarkes and I'll try to don't repeat the same errors agian. My point was that I wasn't sure did I write it gramatically correct.

I am asking for forgivness to my informal language used in the essay. I learn english from british mates who are in age 15-18, so I cannot expect from them using formal english. That doesn't mean I am excusing myself....

Yours,
Blacov

Re: Please Check my little essay, only one paragraph

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:54:40 GMT

Learning english

For many years comunication it the way to express ideas ,feeling with another person,by talking or writing.Learning english to been one of the challenges for many person arriving from other countries.The first reason by which all the foreigners should speak englishis to find a better work and be able to make more money.tHE SECOND REASON IS IF YOU FEEL SURE OF WHAT YOU MEAN and your self esteem improves.The third reason is you be able to speak in the same languaje, and understand ideas. Finally to learn english help you to express positively and give you the opportunity to have a better future for our family.

Re: Best way to learn English?

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:56:46 GMT

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After a quick look ,the way my teacher and essay books say that an essay has a structure .
And topic sentences.
The structures generally of an essay are:

Introduction
Body
Conclusion
You can look in google for "five paragraph essay"until I'll find you a specific good example.
I think the place where are you learning should provide you with (model essay) more information on essay
struture,connectives to connect paragraphs and make the essay flow(similiar to driving a car)
and topic sentence.There is different essay types such as Argumentative essay,normal essay...The other thing to concider when writing essays is if you can use first person prounouns,formal ,informal language.

Please integrate the information at the end of your essay in a paragraph,give fewer example.
Your first draft looks good,but it need more cutting and pasting to look like an essay.
I'll give quick example of a topic sentence.
(Introduction)Please don't write introduction ,just introduce your topic
There is different English language schools in Emirate.Students choose the best language school for them depend firstly on the course cost,secondly teachers profile and finally transportion
(Topic sentence 1)
Cost (As you notice in T.S.1 you'll talk about cost only in this paragraph)
(Topic sentence 2)
Teachers profile(paragraph)
(Topic sentence 3)
transportation(Paragraph)
In conclusion or in summary,you can write either of these(sum up briefly what you said in you essay,don't introduce new ideas)

You can have a look at Nawal thread cause there is some suggestion on essay writing.But be careful don't change it to argumentative essay if the teacher doesn't want to.
Good luck in your essay,your english is really good.I hope I did good and no harm.

I hope bestÂ§

Re: can someone check my essay. i have bad grammers :(

Doll — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:09:39 GMT

Ooops!Don't misunderstand but it seems to me that you even didn't try to do your homework.Look it would be better if you ask us whether my answers are correct or not.You can't learn English like that.I am ready to help you if you send your own answers wih this essay to my mail.

how to align the list?

Believer — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:20:06 GMT

I clicked?? on this forums' what I think is hyperlink that said "learn English Letter Writing Grammar and Pronunciation" and saw this thing pop up and upon reading it, it got me thinking how best to align that or if it is aligned in the best way possible.

pop-up:

Learn and explore the English language with topics such as poetry, stories, ..., essay composition, and general chit chat

poetry and uncountable OK

stories and a plural countable OK with uncountable nouns

essay composition as a countable noun, Not OK??

chit chat as uncountable OK

When you have a list like this, should we make every effort to align them or is there room to deviate?? like what I think is in the above case (essay composition being the one deviated)?

Re: succeeding in doing something

J Lewis — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:15:39 GMT

Hi Kooyeen

I still have an essay to write and I have to finish it before my mom gets back. That's practically impossible, I'll never manage in time.

I can't think of other expressions you could use.

In your first examples:

I'm trying to learn English. But it's too difficult, I think I'll never succeed.
That's too heavy for you to lift! You can't manage by yourself.
That's not so heavy. I think you can manage/do it.
Yeah! That was not so simple, but I did it.

There aren't very big differences between these expressions.
Make it is often used in the sense of arrival - making it to the station or an appointment - or also in the abstract:
Susan and Peter have had a lot of problems in their relationship and I don't know if they'll make it (if they'll reach a happy equilibrium and manage to stay together). For simpler actions you can often say do it.
Again not much difference between succeed and manage, but personally I would use manage for a short-term effort, like carrying a suitcase or finishing an essay, while succeed is more for a long-term objective like learning a language.

Re: Learning English - what's your trick?

Divine — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:47:02 GMT

Englishuser wrote:

In other words, you need to change your daily habits if you're serious about improving your language skills.

Hi Englishuser! Nice to see you again.

I totally agree with you when you claim that it is essential to change our daily habits if we want to develope our language skills. I had similar experiences in learning foreign languages. For instance, when I was learning English only at school, I mean I was doing grammar exercises, writing essays, learning by heart new vocabulary, I felt that I was doing a big effort, but my results couldn't satisfy me. I had to begin looking for opportunities to use English as often as it was possible. Like here, in this forum. Besides, I started to read English literature and magazines.

What is your trick in learning vocabulary (for example), or maybe you are a native speaker and you don't have to learn English words

Divine

An essay about New Zealand

Kind Villain — Sun, 21 May 2006 19:05:43 GMT

Hello! Can you fix the following essay please? Actually, I don't think that it's an essay - that's just some kind of tourist info. Thanks a lot for your contribution!

New Zealand

New Zealand is a land of magnificent and unordinary beauty. This is a wonderful place to learn English, enjoy nature and go mountain-skiing. It is no secret that âThe Lord of The Ringsâ was shot in New Zealand â the nature of New Zealand so closely resembles the magical country! If you are keen on active tourism, you can find all the necessary facilities for hiking, mountain-skiing, rafting and many other kinds of sports here. The countryâs distinguishing characteristic is the beauty of its nature. Make your dreams come true! Swim together with dolphins, admire whales, and go fishing! New Zealand is an island country but the sizes of the islands are not large, so it is quite easy and pleasant to travel about/around (not really sure of âabout/around) regardless of what means of transport you use â a car, a bus, or even a bicycle.

New Zealand culture is quite unordinary. New Zealanders represent a mix of Europeans and the Maoris. They are very friendly and hospitable. A foreigner will be surprised by being greeted on the street by complete strangers. The atmosphere of relaxation and peacefulness prevails everywhere in New Zealand. The murder rate is extremely low compared to any other country of the world and the bribery rate among governmental workers is the lowest in the world (supposedly, there is no such thing as bribes in New Zealand at all). By the way, governmental ministers do not have body guards or escorts. Naturally, making an appointment with one of them is quite easy. Sometimes you can even meet a minister while standing in line in a supermarket. Another practical thing you should know about when you are in New Zealand â you should not give tips in hotels, restaurants etc. because tips are uncommon here.

The local art and culture originated by combining things that cannot normally be combined, hence their passing resemblance to common cultures and arts.

Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, is situated in the wonderful harbor on the edge of the âNorthernâ island. Guidebooks recommend paying particular attention to the following sights. These are: the modernistic building of the executive branch of the Parliament â Beehive, the ancient building of the government (one of the biggest buildings in the world made completely from wood), the National Library with an excellent collection of literature, Catherine Mansfieldâs Memorial, and more. There are a few interesting museums such as the Maori Museum called âTe Papaâ in Wellington. But the place that is definitely worth a visit is located not far from the capital. It is Mount Victoria. You can come in sight of the mountain from the cityâs streets. What an impressive sight!

What is the best time to go to New Zealand? Owing to the favorable location, New Zealandâs climate is fairly mild the whole year, so you can visit the country any time of the year. However, they usually emphasize the âmainâ season â November through April. There are a lot of tourists arriving at this time of the year, so it is quite reasonable to reserve a hotel room in advance. If you like mountain-skiing, the best time for you to come is winter â June through August. In general, if you can come any time of the year, we advise you come before or after the main season. The weather is pretty warm but there are no crowds of tourists and you can go sightseeing anywhere you want without having to care about the availability of tickets.