Be my teacher!

Movies? Listen to talk shows instead. Movies have sketchy english. Although really anything works

And trust me, there is always feedback here

OK. I 'll take a shot at it.





David

OK EVERYONE, DUCK!

Ida some of our a2k guys can be very helpful in this respect, each apparently spending much of his respective day at such assistance. However many consider it dreadfully tedious so if I were you, eg, I might devote a single thread to your first para, posting another as a subsequent thread only after the first is exhausted

….limiting the length of each

What is your first language?

Also take into account that while most of the members of this site are Americans, there's a healthy spattering of Australians and English. We spell differently. Technically, none of us are wrong, but there will be differences.

This place can be great for that. A pity you can't teach us Persian... :-)

That would be farsical..

Or it could be legendari.

Oli you've made my entire week
It's not everyday….
http://onelook.com/?w=dari&ls=a

Oh well, all right, you too Tim
http://onelook.com/?w=farsi&ls=a

LOL -- it was just a lame joke in response to Timur's lame joke...

Dari is Afghan Persian. It retains some features which have disappeared from Iranian Persian and thus is considered more archaic.

Oli not lame at all, well done

Thanks for the kind words.

Hi everybody
Thank you for your guidance and support. I am so glad to know you guys.
I have a bad cold, so I couldn’t write my daily compositions. But as soon as I get better, I’ll resume writing.
My first language is Persian or Farsi.
Thank you my friends… or that is better to say “my teachers” :-)

I think it is better to write about myself, in order to you guys be more interested in following my daily compositions.
As you know, my name is Ida. I am 30 years old and from Iran. Yes, the very country where is so controversial because of its nuclear energy program. But let’s not enter the political issues and back to me. ;-)
10 years ago, I had a terrible accident in which I broke my neck and my spinal cord was injured. After that I became paralyzed for the entire of my body. I am a quadriplegic person and just my left arm has 40% movement, except for the wrist and fingers. I can use computer and type with a tool witch my Occupational therapist has designed for me. I also have respiratory problems because of which I breathe by a tube put in my neck.
Despite all my problems I could continue my education and now I am a translator. For my first work as a translator, I am translating the autobiography book of an American quadriplegic woman, named Joni Eareckson Tada whose life is highly similar to mine.
Is there anybody among you who know her?
I am going to write more about myself tomorrow. :-)
Please let me know about my grammatical and structural mistakes.
Thanks.

Oh Ida please do

Ida, you are an inspiration! I teach EFL at university level. I will gladly give you a little feedback, if you like.

First of all, you write extraordinarily well for anyone, much less an EFL student! I wish more of my students would attain your level of fluency.

Tip #1:


I realize that this is informal writing, but I just wanted to make sure that you knew that in formal/academic writing, it's not good to start a sentence with roman numerals. We're told to spell out numbers in such situations.

Tip #2:


I think this has to be syntactically reversed to show the cause-and-effect that you seem to intend: "I breathe by a tube (put) in my neck, because of which I also have respiratory problems."

Alternatively, and more easily, you could write, "I also have respiratory problems, because I breathe..."

Either of those would convey what I take to be your intended message.

Tip #3:


For conciseness, slightly more fluent vocabulary and a little mechanics (the comma before "named"):
"I am translating the autobiography of an American named Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic woman whose life is remarkably similar to mine."

Incidentally, someone whose native Enlish is British English (BrE) may disagree with AmE punctuation. I consider them both equally acceptable.

I hope that was helpful!

In which country are you teaching English?


Was my question grammatically correct (I had to think about it!)?

S. Korea (the good one). Yeah, your question is grammatically correct, but we've been given permission by the grammar gods in recent years to dangle our prepositions freely (as well as to split our infinitives as we see fit), so you could've written, "Which country are you teaching English in?" and still gotten a green light.