tryto
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- Sep 16, 2018
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- German
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- Germany
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- Germany
Hello dear forum !
What sould I do? For examle, I would like to engage in some discussions in the internet to improve my English. But who will correct my sentences <i>and</i> discuss the choosen item ? Where should I begin (level)?
Never having been very shy usung my limited English I had to encounter over the time, for exaple talking to my English unkle, how many faults I am actualliy still making (even where I should have known better, e.g. tenses!). The more I´m reading englich texts the more I become aware how restricted may abillitiys are to convey what I would like to express. My kowledge of the german grammar is almost at a professional level (I´m working as a "Lernhelfer" (i.e. with no degree) helping refugees leraning German), so friends said: "Don´t worry, you will improve on your own." Bur I´m not so sure ...
I believe this are the main problems:
1. limited actikve (!) vocabulary
2. what I call the 'typical Denglish-Problem': I am still thinking in German, which includes "false friends" (become - > "bekommen") and grammar/syntax. I´m often afraid that the sentences that silently I am construing in my mind would never be built by a native speaker in that manner. But now I´m quite helpless when I´m looking for a better phrase. What I need seems to be aquaintace of at least some of the english idioms. I understand them passively, but I don´t make any progress using them.
3. More importend, to avoid this problems, as it seems, is to learn more grammar / sentence-structure.
Some examples: For this post I had to use the dictionary several times because the right expression didn´t come to my mind. I changed here and there the word order, but only my intuition told me so. May be the result was even worse! What is exactly the correct use of for "rather" (I never dare to use it).
I don´t expect a complete correction of this post, but some remarks are much appreciated!
What sould I do? For examle, I would like to engage in some discussions in the internet to improve my English. But who will correct my sentences <i>and</i> discuss the choosen item ? Where should I begin (level)?
Never having been very shy usung my limited English I had to encounter over the time, for exaple talking to my English unkle, how many faults I am actualliy still making (even where I should have known better, e.g. tenses!). The more I´m reading englich texts the more I become aware how restricted may abillitiys are to convey what I would like to express. My kowledge of the german grammar is almost at a professional level (I´m working as a "Lernhelfer" (i.e. with no degree) helping refugees leraning German), so friends said: "Don´t worry, you will improve on your own." Bur I´m not so sure ...
I believe this are the main problems:
1. limited actikve (!) vocabulary
2. what I call the 'typical Denglish-Problem': I am still thinking in German, which includes "false friends" (become - > "bekommen") and grammar/syntax. I´m often afraid that the sentences that silently I am construing in my mind would never be built by a native speaker in that manner. But now I´m quite helpless when I´m looking for a better phrase. What I need seems to be aquaintace of at least some of the english idioms. I understand them passively, but I don´t make any progress using them.
3. More importend, to avoid this problems, as it seems, is to learn more grammar / sentence-structure.
Some examples: For this post I had to use the dictionary several times because the right expression didn´t come to my mind. I changed here and there the word order, but only my intuition told me so. May be the result was even worse! What is exactly the correct use of for "rather" (I never dare to use it).
I don´t expect a complete correction of this post, but some remarks are much appreciated!