What do you make of "plain speaking"?

[Alan]

Hi Shpresa,

Thank you for your comments. It's always very good to hear from subscribers to my newsletter.

Alan
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[Shpresa]

Dear Alan,

You are welcome.Actually, thank you for this great opportunity,given to us ,to practice our English language skills

[Mohamed Lamine]

Dear best Mr I am your student Mohamed Lamine from Guinea. I thank you very much for helping me I got many benefits from you, so I have to thank for that. But now I want you continue to help me.

I have some confuses between Begin and Start, so solve it for me.
Thanks.
Your sincerely

[Torsten]

Dear Mohamed Lamine,

Many thanks for your message. Please read the difference between start and begin.

Best regards,
Torsten

PS: Who is "best Mr"? Maybe you mean Dr Best?
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[Huynhchinh]

Dear all English teachers.

Thanks for all your lessons that send me.
I feel more interested when I do exercises. You know, I feel so easy when I do exercises but when I speak English I forgot all words that I can say. I do not why. Can you help me.
Have fun .
Chinh

[keerthi]

Hi,

I am a student and want to improve my language for job purpose.
I am enjoying the newsletters and have learnt many words and their usage. I would like to thank the site and the trainer.

I believe this would help me in improving my communicaion skills.

Regards,
keerthi

[Guest]

I am sahai . After joining your class really Iam very happy . It is you who made me able to write something . I enjoy when I do my test. Iam trying my level best. Cross your finger I do best . Kindly tell me is this forum ? Where do I ask any question ? Thanks Torsten.
sahai

[Guest]

Hello , I am vary happy to join your class. I want to improve my English . I like very much when I do test which is send by you. I feel that after joining I can write something. before joining i was very poor in English . Please tell me , will I ask any grammer questions on this window? I am thankful to you who make me able this subject .It is wonder after sending the message which is written by me is disapeared, This is the other mail which I am writing to you.
ThanksTorsten
Sahai

[Caterina]

Hi!
I'm a private English teacher and I know that even teachers have to improve their technics in order to be more practical so i appreciate so much the Forum. I like all the ways of communication and I think it depends on the circumstances. When I translated some juridical documents I had to be more concise, so calling a spade a spade. In Rumanian this means 'put the point on the i' or 'call the thigs using their names'. I also like using metopha and similes at the lessons and when communicating with friends. I think this make us to draw closer to each other and to be more aproachable for new people because we can know a person better by means of conversation.
Thanks a lot for such interesting materials

[Ms.Unique]

Hello,

I know I'm writing so late (it's been ages since I've written !) but I don't prefer beating around the bush nor anything that just comes to mind, I like my conversation to be understandable to my listeners and choose my words carefully so it's not a mess ...... I do love using simile and metaphor and figurative speech in general but not Spoonerism .....

Anyways thanks for the lesson it was wonderful .....

Regards,

[Gelle]

hellow ! every body my name is gelle ,i realy like to learn ewnglish but is very difficult to me becouse it is not my mother tongue
but am doing realy hardwork and i realy apriciate my teachers who are giving me hand how to learn english i do my exercise and
i do not realy pass well but now am doing progress the way i was before thanks

[Mlodhi]

Hi Alan,

Enlightening article. I use simple plain english using active voice and getting rid of the unnecessary words. I also avoid using negative like do not, can not, will not etc. That makes the writing more understandable and direct! But I am here to learn from you as well. Any further advice, I will appreciate.