By Translation, Intonations

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Why didn't you take it? There was no one around! 1 - You have stolen it!<-- You had a chance to steal it, you had the ability to steal it, you were allowed to steal it, but you didn't. were allowed is a less probable paraphrase. An additional paraphrase is You should have stolen it. Why...

Hi KooyeenIf you wanted to sound like a German who is learning English and still making mistakes, you could say:"MrPedantic is from Venice, or?" That would be an overly direct translation of German, and not typical English..I'm sure you already know that direct translations often don't work or...

Maple, Thanks for your comment. It wasn’t my interest or my goal in life to learn English but I had to learn it to survive as I painfully realized not long after I arrived this country. It became apparent to me that unless I was content with working in Chinese restaurants or grocery stores...

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...