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Introduce yourself! Write a brief introduction. What is your name? Why are you learning a new language? Where are you from?
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Ngoc
Ngoc
My named is Ngoc, I am from Vietnam, I am a mother of three children. The main reason I am learning a new language in here is: I have many friends living in the foreign countries. I hope someday, when I go on a long travel, I can talk fluent English with whoever I meet all over the world. The more I get friends help, the more I get interest in it and the more I love learning English very much. I think if I can good in this language, I can help my children in study English too. Although I am living in Vietnam, but I do not want to be a frog just lives under the well.
Submitted: 2008-08-22 08:07:34
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Other Members' Submissions
Fredrik covered everything very well.
Jim
Yes, Fredrik, I have sent twice the exercise, because I changed a little in the exercise, but it as the mean too. I like your correction.
Thank you Fredrik!
Thank you Jim for the comment!
Thank you Andreia very much for the comment!
Hello! my name is Ngoc, I come from Vietnam and am the mother of three children. My main reason for learning a new language is that I have many friends living in foreign countries, and hope, someday to travel and be able to speak English well. The more help that I get from my friends makes me even more interested in English. I believe that if I become good enough, I can help my children with their English. Although I am living in Vietnam, I do not want to be like a frog under a well.
Thanks again!
I was born in Vietnam, but I am not a Vietnamese, because my parents are Chinese person. A Vietnamese can not know in Chinese words.
Thank you for the comment!
That's the main reason I have to learn English in here : Because I think that if I have a chance to travel over the world, I can speak English fluently with everybody.
Sure....The more I get help from my friends, the more I get interested in learning English...
Ngoc, are there Chinese schools in Vietnam? Where did you learn how to write putonghua?
Suggestions:
1. The main reason
2....when I travel there, I can speak English fluently with them.
3. The more help I get from my friend, the more I love learning English.
4. I think if I can be good at this language, I can help my children in English too.
5. Although I am living in Vietnam, I do not want to be a frog under the well.
Malcan, thank you for your question, I will be pleasure to answer the question later, that may have a chance to let friends know more about me, but please be patient to read what I write, please! if I have any wrong in writing, I hope friends can correct for me too. Thank you!
Jim had been ask me about this question, but sorry that I could not answer in perfectly.
I am thankful to Joseph(Chukwudi), Willium(wlc), Brian CB, BSIOU and Les were very good to help me as my tutor since I join in Mocha. And now, I was so lucky have :
Jim, Fredrik, Chynna, Andreia, Carmem and Malcan: All as my tutor too.
I am thankful to all you, and....I love all you!
Hello, my name is Ngoc and I come from Vietnam, I am also the mother of three children. My main reason for learning a new language is that I have many friends went abroad, and I also have many Mocha friends are living in the foreign countries. I hope someday, when I travel anywhere, I can speak English fluently with my friends. The more help I get from my friends, the more I love learning English. I believe that ( I think) if I can be good at this language, I can help my children in English too.
Although I am living in Vietnam, I really do not want to be a frog just lives under the well.
I just said that a native Vietnamese could not know how to write in Chinese words, not in speaking Chinese, we can never say never, because near these years, there are many young Vietnamese have been try to learn speaking in putonghua for the need of their work with a Taiwanese boss.
Yes, I was born in Vietnam, but why I do not think I am a Vietnamese? At the first, you have to know the history between Vietnamese and Chinese in Vietnam. There are no Chinese in the former history of Vietnam, I had heard from my parents. Since the time about one century ago, China had a strong war between with other country, many Chinese run to Vietnam to avoid the war in China, they thought that just take a provisional in Vietnam only, they will be back China after the war. But the lived was so hard for them in Vietnam, day by day, they were more hard to be back homeland after have families even China in the peace.
You can imagine that how hard of the former Chinese with illiteracy to the Vietnamese even in writing or speaking, the Chinese just can know Vietnamese since the period from their children.
Just that, if anyone in a family have been married with a Vietnamese, then the children of him become a Vietnamese. My grandfather from my father was came from China. My mother was came from China too. So I can say , I am not a Vietnamese.
I am sorry, I can not continue the second question with my tears for now, please let me write later with the question " How I can learn in Chinese ?"
Thank you friends have take time to read my writing. Thank you very much!
There was also had Chinese, Vietnamese -Chinese school in Vietnam before the date emancibate Saigon(1975-4-30), but not too much.
I began to learn Chinese not from school, I learned Chinese since my childhood, my father was my first tutor. My father was very good in writing Chinese poem and the ancient literature, but it's so pity that I did not like to learn those from my father, so it seems a stranger to me. My father just taught me how to used the national Chinese language with the syllable to write out a Chinese word. So I did not know to use the pinyin or Latin.
我是用這些國音符號打出中文繁體字:
ㄅㄆㄇㄈ ㄉㄊㄋㄌ ㄍㄎㄏ ㄐㄑㄒ ㄓㄔㄕㄖ ㄗㄘㄙ 一ㄨㄩ ㄚㄛㄜㄝ ㄞㄟㄠㄡ ㄢㄣㄤㄥ
Sure, Chinese word is very beautiful on looking most of when we use a soft pen with the ink-back to write, it seems a dragon or a phoenix are flying or dancing on the paper. It is a kind of
ancient writing Chinese word which different from writing with a pen.
我希望哪位朋友, 同學能替我改正英文的錯誤, 因為我不知道我翻譯得對嗎?
謝謝!
SPEAK + ENGLISH
TALK IN ENGLISH WITH PEOPLE
I think/believe that if I CAN USE this language WELL, I can help my children study English better, too.
ALTHOUGH..... is used without "BUT"
(many Asian make this typical mistake)
The more help I get from friends, the more I am interested IN ENGLISH, and the more I LOVE LEARNING LANGUAGES
At this point, Fredrik has understood your intention incorrectly and therefore made a correction another way. You wanted to practice the structure "the more..., the more". Fredrick didn't see that.
Logical thoughts: you get help => you're interested in English => you even love learning (more) languages.
You wrote "interested in it". It's wrong because you didn't write in "what".
And if you write "interested in English" and "love leaning English", it will become a little double meaning. I hope that Fredrik could agree with what I've written
"Although I am living in Vietnam, I don't want to be like a frog living IN a well."
Best wishes to you my friend :)
Really, Fredrik covered everything very well, every friend here was saying Fredrik's comments are correct. Thank you Fredrik and all my friends!
I really like learning English very much even I am not young, but I could not learn English without help from friends. I hope that Fredrik and friends can continue to help me. Okay?
" The more help I get from my friends that makes me even more interested in learning English. And the other reason, I do not want to be like a frog living in a well".
So, I need all you help very much!
Ngoc
My named is Ngoc, I am from Vietnam, I am a mother of three children. The main reason I am learning a new language here is because I have many friends living in foreign countries. I hope someday, when I travel (or - when I go on a long trip), I can talk English fluently with whomever I meet all over the world. The more I get friends help, the more I get interested in it and the more I love learning English very much. I think if I can be good in this language I can help my children to study English too. Although I am living in Vietnam, I do not want to be a frog who just lives in the well.
It's right!.... Although I am living in Vietnam, I do not want to be a frog who just lives in the well.
Thanks again!
It's right! A life without dreams is a life without colors.
I like this sentence. Thank you!
I think Fredrik's comment is very helpful, so I have no comment.
I saw your comments of July 14, 2008 that you wrote a traditional Chinese writing as your native language (because you're the Chinese offspring, aren't you?).
Do you also use the simplified Chinese writing?
Thank you for your question. As someone said I was born in Vietnam, I am a Vietnamese, may be it is right. But my mother really came from China about 1950, and my grandfather from my father also came from China too, so am I a Chinese or Vietnamese? I am sorry! I really do not know how to answer is right.
About the Chinese writing, I just know this kind of traditional Chinese writing, that's I learn from my father, but I know that The Taiwanese also used this kind of Chinese writing. I am sorry! I didn't know simplified Chinese writing, because I had not learn about this simplified writing, but I can see and understand it.
Thanks again!