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Originally Posted by ram Dear Ronbee,
Thanks again. Now I know why we learn language faster by conversing with a native speaker. How I hope, we have a native(English) speaker in our house. Getting good English teachers in our place costs a lot. Manila, which has many good English teachers, is far from our place.
For non-English speakers like us,writing is easier than speaking. Still, you have corrected so many mistakes in just 4 or 5 sentences. As you have noticed I have trouble using the past participle. I hope you wont tire correcting my correspondence.
There's a sudden interest again in English here in our country because the country's no.1 source of earnings now is human/service export. There is sudden efflux of manpower (nurses, teachers) to US and UK and passing the Toefl is a requirement. In our school, students who speak in English all the time are given additional credits, so we try to speak English most of the time, even if our English is corrupted/convoluted -we call this "carabao english". It would have been better if there is someome beside us to correct us always.
By the way, if you go to CNN, you would notice one thousand persons were dead and missing in our country after the typhoon hit us. Please help me pray for them.
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I think your English is quite good, but I do have a suggestion. The word
hope is always about the future. Thus, you can say
I hope we get a native English speaker to come to our house, but you can't say
I hope we have a native English speaker at our house. You can't hope you have something. (Even when the sentence in question concerns a past event ("I hope you did well") the word
hope is still about the future in that it is about expectations.)
