What do you make of "plain speaking"?

[Gelle]

dear alan,
my name is gelle i`m not ateacher but a english biggerner student
who wants to improve his english trough speaking and writing.
i`m from somalia but ilve in USA since september 2007.
i`m so much intreting to learn english and i hope you can helb me that. i look forward to hear you again.
please check what ihave written and correct my mistakes.
best regards

[Guest]

Hi Torsten,

I'm HuynhChinh
I'm from Hochiminh city, VietNam.
I'm a engineer
I work for Telecom company.

I listen to session 1,2 from Sue. They are very interesting lessons.
Thanks for your lesson " interested and interesting".

Hope you send me a new lesson.

Best regards.

[Guest]

Hello Sue,
This is my answer for session 2.
Sue works for a large financial company. She starts work at 8:45 and finished about 5:15. She enjoys the personal contact.

Tell the truth, I don't understan sentence : " I enyoy the personal contact with them as they come form all walks of life and are all ages " . What does it mean? Can you explain it clearly?.

Thanks.

[solmaz]

Hi Alan
I'm solmaz.I'm from Iran.I've never visited such a great web-site and complete information.Thanks a million.
I'm a university student.my major is Translation of English and I teach English too.I need a lot of stories,tests,subjects to speak about in the class ets.I'd like to learn slangs a lot.
I would be happy if you could help me.
thanks
solmaz

[Sandra.]

Dear Alan!
It's being a little hard to understand your Email
Please wait a little, I have to spend some time translating it.
There are some words, and idioms etc. that I couldn't find the meaning.
I'm going on trying.
My best regards
Sandra - Brasil

[Dung.]

Dear, Alan Townend

Thank alots for your sharing about exprience learning english

Can I introduce myself:

I am living in Hanoi, Vietnam, I am 43 years old

I am senior expert of science and technology management,

My english very bad,

When I was in school and university I studied russia

I have learned English about one year ago, but I can speaking, listening and writing

I know English-test.net have many good expert of english, I hope after join English-test.net my English will be becom beter

See you

Best regards

Dung

[soheila]

Hello, my name is Soheila. I'm an employee in an office. I need and like to learn English language. I prefer to speaking or writing with some body. and also to do some exercises above simple conversation to improve.
please if is possible for you to help in this way that I could talk to any body.
thank you - soheila

[kenpetro2000]

Hello Alan,
I'm perpetua from Nigeria, thank you so for that beautiful piece, it's really impressive and educative.i prefer a simple communication style without jargons, down here we call it hitting the nail on the head. Please i would love it if you will throw more light on pulic speaking. Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooo much.

[love melrichs]

Dear Sir,

It is always a pleasure reading your English lessons. In fact, I really appreciate your approach: not knowing exactly the learner's level, you carefully avoid "brutalizing" him or her with knowledge.

In your previous mail, you were interested in knowing the style I prefer. Well, I prefer formal style to any other.

As for the forum, I am already a member. My last participation was to know the real difference between ERROR and MISTAKE. I cannot really say I was not satisfied by the answer I received, for it is already a satisfaction having one's question answered! However your own answer to that question will be welcome.

Looking forward to hearing from you, I remain

Yours faithfully

[Guest]

thank you for all,i'm an english learner.i appreciate your articles .the style of communication i prefer is methaphorical one but i wonder if it must be used everywhere and anytime.

[Ludovic]

Hello, my dear Alan!

I'm Ludovic from the Central African Republic, a French spoken country! I'm very interesting in the messages you have sent to me. I guess that variety is the spice of the like. So, sometimes, it's good to use a plain language, especially with ones close friends. But, I guess that using figurative language the our daily conversation is very very good!
Best regards!

[Alaa Hassan]

Hi
I'm Alaa Hassan from Syria, I'm an Architect, working as Teaching assistant in faculty of Architectural in Damascus University...
and I'm so glad to use your materials to fortify my English language... and now I prepare myself to enter the PHD study, Therefor I must develop my skill in language... thanks for your help across the sites and materials, it has a good benefit for us...
Regards...

[Dinh Cam]

Dear Alan Townend,

Thank you very much for so many beautiful pieces of writing to me. I am somewhat of a teacher of English at a secondary school in a poor country in the Far East. I graduated more than 20 years ago when there was too little to teach (for our teachers) and to learn (for us). I have been stuffing myself with whatever I have been able to find, as long as it is in English. I have never had a chance to be in any English speaking countries and so few opportunities to "make foreigners understand me" and they were too kind to give their criticism of my English.

That's why I would very much like you to send me as much as you can with your writings, questions papers etc, if you can.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Dinh Cam

[Bedrich.]

Dear Alan,
I am very thankful for useful information and I stress: I am teacher of myself by means
of your help.

Warmly
Bedrich

[Guest]

Thank you for your masage is me irena. For one week I am busy because i am graguate on general nursing and aftwer this i can rispond on everything you ask me i need to learn english