 #16 (permalink) Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:57 am "I don't know nothing"? |
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| Vietanhpham_Winter wrote: |
| You still had one more mistake. If English WERE my second language... Because in fact, ENGLISH isn't our second language, just foreign language. |
Well, I admit that English is my 2nd language and so are most of people around here That is good that you've been learning so many things written in the books -It's good for you! But just for your information, books are not everything about "English"...
There should not be an mistake when saying "If English IS..." (please double check from your books).
It's definitely true in term of those difficulties that people are trying to learn an language which is not their mother language. Language is constantly changing, especially English, since there are more and more people around the world using it a lot and making some changes as their own favorite. Same thing for Vietnamese, there are tons of difficulties that a foreigner faces when they are trying to "learn" it (I do hope that you have some chances to talk with those people). You might not expect it, but as far as I know, there are thousands of "ridiculous" and "fun" things like this one out there when learning a new language (English in particular).
For more information, that I think is written in some book that "double negation" should be avoided...
Finally, I'm glad to me some of Vietnamese people here love to share their thinking/understanding about this most common language.
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Hieu Phan.
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