Kitos.

[Kitosdad]

Writers write. Most writers have been told this at some point in their career. What you may not have been told is that to write well, it is useful to learn to read from a writer's perspective.
Architects study the buildings of other architects.
Photographers study the photographs and techniques of other photographers.
Artists of all types study the work and techniques of others in their field, both their contemporaries and the masters.

You may well wonder, what is Kitos rabbiting-on about here!

I want you to write, that's what!

How many times have you read an interesting story and then just forgotten about it?
What about a character in the story..... Could you write a characterized description about him/her?
If you feel you can, then do it.
Have you ever seen such a view as to have let leave of your senses momentarily?
If you have, can you describe it?

It isn't difficult to write interesting topics. People love to read. What if nobody wrote? Where would you be then?

You owe it to yourself to let your imagination give vent to your inner feelings.

Describe your brother, mother, aunt, grand-father. Tell me about them. I am interested in them all.

Tell me about your school, your class, your teachers. You surely have an opinion about it/them.

Let go of your inhibitions and write, write, write. Go on, start typing NOW!

Kitos.
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[MariaEbb]

When foreigners move to Sweden many of them become Swedish :-) But Englishmen in Sweden are still Englishmen.

I have tried to start many new topics but just a few writes under my topics.
/Maria

[Kitosdad]

Hello Maria. I've been living in Germany for nearly ten years and I can barely hold a conversation in German.
Maybe it is a national characteristic of we British. :) :)

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[MariaEbb]

Yes it's very difficult to learn a foreign language if you are British. I think the Germans have the same problem with learning English or French. English, German and French are the world languages. In some non-engelish speaking countries they refuse to speak English even if they can. I have read about it on the internet. They will just talk German at a German airport or at a bank for example. The French says to be more stubborn about just talking their own language.

Well I can make myself understood in every situation in English. If somebody start to talk politics with me for example I just say I have difficulties to understand him. I can explain that I have difficulties to understand his political language. And if he wants to know I can tell him I skipped to vote at the last election as I am not interested in politics. If I get angry with somebody in English I risk to wake up totally paralysed at hospital. I have learnt too many four and five letter words from official ladiesroom in Sweden.
/Maria

[Kitosdad]

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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[Richard]

Good evening Kitosdad and MariaEbb.

oh! it's almost midnight. I'm glad that I can understand one who is speaking English. However, I'm still learning, I don't now when It will be finish. I wanna learn another language too. How many words one have to learn in order to say I now this language? 2000- 5000 or 10000 or more. we don't now all the words in our mother tongue, especially when it comes to term of scientific or literary vocabulary. let's consider the course of literature in universities in which student learn new words. :roll:
we always use some vernacular vocabulary and slang word to communicate with our friends so that I suppose that one who wanna integrate into a new community and make new friends should learn the way the use their language, isn't it?
knowing all the words is difficult, so we should learn useful ones, isn't it?
have you ever thought that how many words you know in your mother tongue?
learning a new language is time-taking but worthwhile. how long does it take? I believe that for understanding and being able to handle daily conversations just 6 months. what do you think?
I have to start a new topic by this topic..because it has always struck me. :idea:
mind-boggling??? :!:
about writing Kitos I think that the members are too young the average of twenty six or seven like me or even very younger. they haven't much spare and free time to write a lot..They all as me wanna fulfill their dreams and they focus on grammar and academic essays for tests of English, besides they might be lazy. :lol:
Kitos you don't need to speak German, I suppose that since English consider Lingue france, you can easily communicate with Germans and foreigners. in adition, all the well-educated people now English. you just need to have smattering of German.

good one Kitos.
we have to keep writing.
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[Nawar]

Hi kitos,
I will try to write in english, just give me time!

[Nawar]

My life's Frame without You

Golden
Or wooden
No difference
It has lost its essence
Forever
Without your picture
No meaning to my frame
Without you
No meaning to my life

Long time ago
I used to see the world
Through your own eyes
I used to draw the world
With your own lies
I used to write our dreams
I used to memorize all your words
I used to hang up all our hopes
Our wishes
Like stars on my sky
It was shining my nights
It was bighting my days

Inside the frame of my life
I used to love you
Long time ago
I used to live your melodies
I used to enjoy hearing your voice
I used to sleep inside a frame
With a picture of you
With a letter from you
With a long dream of you and I
With your love
And my hope
With lonely choice that only you

Your melodies took me
To a wonderful dream
I used to extended that dream
Or may it real
I don't know
Or I don't want to know
For all things before you was nothing
And all things after you are nothing
A never-ending dream
I thought it was
But now I have realized
Dreams can be killed
Dreams can be end
Dreams can be turn to nothing
Even when our hearts are still beating
We can't be together
And we will never be for each other

Long time ago
Your eyes told me
You will always be there
For me
Your voice told me
No melodies can be there
Without me
Your face told me
You can give a promise
You can keep a promise
We can be together all life
We can live at same frame
We can live the same dream

I thought you can make it real
I thought we can make it real
Long time ago
With your own lies
I used to draw the world
Through your own eyes
I used to see the world
I used to keep living on a frame
Where all what I see
Is you
Where all what I hear
Is you
Where all what I feel
Is you
Where all what I love
Is you
But this picture has fallen
All dreams have turned into nothing
And with an empty frame you makes me living


Nawar

[Kitosdad]

Surely the most tender thing I have read in an awful long time.

If I had read this ten years ago,...................................................................

Kitos.
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[Kitosdad]

Nawar, if this is indeed your own work, then you have put everything I've ever written in the shade. I salute you.

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[MariaEbb]

I just wonder. What is good English? Even English speaking writers gets their work proofread by someone else. I posted an essay on the forum which had been corrected by an Englishman but someone deleted it, or maybe the essay was too long. That Englishman only corrected two essays for me. I wrote something he misunderstood and I am not surprised. I wrote "You must understund how it is to be Swedish" instaed of "You must understand that I am Swedish." I wondered if someone could explain for me what sort of errors I had made because the Englishman who corrected my essays he could not explain why things were wrong in my essays. I hadn't forgotten plural s or used wrong prepositions for example.
/Maria

[Kitosdad]

The love that shone out from your eyes, when once you looked at me,
No longer shines, you've turned it out, and that's how it should be.
For I've earned your scorn, your scant regard, for my actions in the past,
A stupid man, so vain and proud, now I find myself .......................... outcast.
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[Kitosdad]

Maria, I've no idea who you are referring to, but perhaps you should send him a PM explaining your "error".

I'm sure that no-one would ignore you for making such a small remark.

Kitos.
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[Nawar]

Thank you very much kitos,
Yes this is my own writing but it can't be compared to your beautiful writings, you are the writer here, and I wish to learn from you! :)
I like writing, but I need to spend much time and much effort to write in english! I still have difficulties with Englsih grammar! and my english vocabulary are limited!
I will try to share with you another piece of writing, and you are welcome to correct me, So I can learn from my mistakes, thanks!

[Kitosdad]

Nawar, I would be honoured to be allowed to make any alteration to your finished work, although it would be sacrilegious.

The poem you have written is wonderful in that it displays the emotions so plainly, whilst cradling them in forgiveness and love.
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