What do you make of "plain speaking"?

[Guest]

dear Torsten,
I would like to thank you too much for your efforts to help me ( us ) to improve our English. About the speaking style I have, I am not a Jack Blunt, I really try to be attractive in my way of speaking.

[Guest]

DEAR ALAN
THANK YOU FOR SENDING FIGURE OF SPEECH ARTICLE.IWILL STUDY MASTER OF LIGUISTICS IN MALAYSIS. I WAS A TEACHER OF E FOR 18 YEARS.NOW I AM RETIRED.PLZ SEND ME TESTS AND LESSONS OF E .IN ADDITION, ANY THING INTERESTING. IAM ALI FROM JORDAN.
BEST WISHES

[Borjana]

Thanks for articles, I`m interested for this. I buy 6 months ago some lessons and tests, and are great,thanks,

[Guest]

hi , i am sawsan. i am an english teacher and a learner too . I teach kids also from 11-12 years old . when I talke to people i prefer the honest stright speaking ,and I hate those who playes with word and . thank you thousnds times for your help

[AnnaMWall]

Hi, I'm Anna and I am a learner of english. I've just found my way to this site and think it's great. Since I translate from english to swedish in my sparetime, I will hava a lot of help from your teachings.
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Anna

[Guest]

Hello ! I'm a student, and actually I had lived in USA since february.. I'm gonna stay here till march ... So I'm learning a lot here but my problem is speak and vocabulary. I studied in Brazil but we do not practice there, here I'm learning a lot... I'm studing at college twice a week... but is a reading improvemment class.. this is helpinha a little bit, but what is helper is talk and practice with amrican people... So i will try to start use your website.. I'm sure this will help a lot.

[Guest]

Hi Alan.
This is Hani,I really liked your way but i just have a small problem,I feel that english language is easy to be learnt when reading articles,but for it's difficult to write one of this articles as well as my speaking ,when I listen to others I understand what do they say ver well and i find it easy but when I try to speak I feel that I face difficulties.please,advice me

[Hani.]

Dear Torsten,

thank you for help,I really appreciate your efforts.it does help me specially,in listening,I 'm writing to you from United Arab Emirates. Improving my English is very important for as I'm Managing while I'm not native speaker.so, I need to be tactful when speaking with others.

thank you,
Hani

[Guest]

hi all
ican tell you my opinion whether in astraight way or using some kind of figurative languge but ithink that it is not amatter of what kind of communication i prefer but its amatter of what adefinite situation demands so i prefer using both kinds of communication according to situation,
wish iwill hear comments from you.

[Guest]

Hello Torsten,

Answering your question about how i prefer to comunicate with you...
I would like to have your an e-mail... Would you help me with a problem?
I probably will be hired to a multinacional company but i need to send my resume in english... I have already done the resume in english, but i am not sure that the grammar or i used the correctly words... can i send you my resume for a review with you?

Thanks so much
Camila
cmmantilla@yahoo.com.br (Brazil)

[George.]

Thank you for your great articles and your outstanding explanations about this beautiful language that has given me what I have.Iam an American literature college professor and sometimes I also teach British Lit.I would appreciate any material about English,that is to say culture about Usa,England,prepositions,teaching material,American or English Lit.Finally,Iam very happy with the stuff you have sent me.I love plain speaking and all the registers in different contexts. George

[Salvador]

Hi dear Alan,

I am very pleased to read all your interesting articles about English grammar. Also I do enjoy your explanations about the differnt ways of expressing our ideas, like this last article in which you say "English is the biggest rag bag of all languages, picking words from wherever it fancies". That`s right, I enjoy it!

I am English teacher and have 10 students (a factory staff) in Mexico.

Thank you very much again for your great help.

Salvador

[Guest]

Hi! It's always pleasant to read from you. As you can see, we cannot always call a spade a spade. And this helps avoid some blunders between people. Here in Senegal when we want to inform people of someone's death, we say that he has slept ( knowing that we needn't inform anyone about a healthy person who is sleeping).Or again we can say that the person has given up eating rice ( we cannot imagine someone living in this country without eating rice because it is the basis of most meals in this country).And the figures of speech such as metaphors or hyperboles show the beauty of language.

[Medyy]

Hi, This web site is something unbelievable Congratulation!
I would like to improve my speaking skills, but I do not have to speek with anyone in english. I am from Croatia. This is my area of interesting in english in particular
I would like to thank to Alan Townend very much.

[Guest]

Although I'm a Jack Blunt guy, I like figurative speaking