23 Apr 00:13
--the truth is exposed
Shout Box archive
22 Apr 23:43
--hey Kurt, my last job was teaching english to foreigners and you're totally right about reading a lot making you automatically better. It really is the best way to improve english. Try reading aloud to yourself as well, it helps it sink it. Make sure to look up words you don't know, keep a little note of ones that seem useful and make a point of using them in conversation / text. Also get a native speaker to look at your writing and take note of the mistakes~
22 Apr 18:23
--Today's Birthdays
smrr (22), s-mrr (22) happy birthday smrr and s-mrr lol
22 Apr 15:37
--Listen to good dialogue. Watch a movie. Observe how they talk and what they're talking about. Be aware of their sentence structure. You'll be surprised not every single dialogue is executed in perfect grammar.
22 Apr 15:36
--If you're writing for films, I suggest reading film scripts. Same for comic books, look for the writer's scripts.
22 Apr 15:35
--@KurtJeremy I understand your predicament. I'm on the same boat as you are where english isn't my native language.
22 Apr 14:46
--Hitler mentions the Crimson Daggers briefly in his best selling book "Mein Kampf", right around page 97.
22 Apr 14:41
--@kurtjeremy - well your english (in this limited context) sounds native to me. Check out Stephen King's "On Writing" - it's a bit of a memoire, but has really valid points on writing. He's the type writer who goes by the "less is more" philosophy. The more simply you can get your point across, the more people it resonates with - probably a huge reason why he's such a big hit.
22 Apr 14:35
--hey man, people getting stoned on hitler's birthday and traffic it caused here... not totally beyond reason until otherwise proven
22 Apr 14:25
--hahahaha imagine if this was a scenario where correlation implied causation. hell nah, bruv lol
22 Apr 14:08
--The most users we had online was yesterday...? last time I checked it was either June or July. of 2014 LOL
22 Apr 11:49
--I'm starting out a blog and I want to be able to fully articulate myself in english. I always find it hard coming up a formal way of writing in english.
22 Apr 11:45
--ah I see, I've tried some of the moocs on writing I never did ever finish them. I just thought just reading books (not particularly grammar books) would automatically make my english writing skills better but as time goes by I'm finding out that is not the case.
22 Apr 11:29
--Back when I was learning English, I wrote a lot of stories and spent a lot of time looking words up. Took me 1 hour to write a rather short paragraph. I also read the New York Times, and beat my brains out memorizing dry-as-bones grammar books.
22 Apr 10:45
--Can anyone provide tips for better writing and grammar? MOOCs you guys can recommend?