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My English Learning Experience

By ida on October 28, 2011 • 15:36 8 Comments

Hi, I am Ida, a student who tries to learn English every day. I spend my leisure time by reading English newspapers and writing my diary in English. All I want to do is just to practice and get to know English better. Even though I’ve read lots of English newspapers and have written in English as well, my English grammar is still not in order.

On the weekends, I always watch movies whose subtitles and dialogues are in English. They help me improve my listening, my spelling, and my vocab, as well.

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igor castro

October 28, 2011

hi ,i am Ida, i’m a student who TRY to learn English every day. i spend my leisure time by read English newspaper and WRITE my diary in English. All i do just want to practice and get BENEFIT to know English BETTER. Even then i read lot of English newspaper and write as well, but my English Grammar is still not in order.
on the weekend, i always WATCH movie which is subtittle and speaking in English. it helps me improving my listening and spelling as well as increase my vocab.
it is the best what can i do sir…

Swara Bhaskara

October 29, 2011

Hi Igor,

Great except the following two:

1. Preposition + noun or Preposition + verb-ing; by writing, for correcting, for helping

2. Help + verb1 or help + to + verb1; help + O + verb1 or help + O + to verb1; help me improve or help me to improve.

Swara Bhaskara

October 28, 2011

Hi Ida,

It’s a great English learning experience and those in red, however, are just some minor problems.

hi ,i am Ida a student who is trying to learn English every day. i spend my leisure time by reading English news paper and writing my diary in English. All i do just want to practice and get use to know English. Even then i read lot of English news paper and write as well, but my English Grammar is still not in order.

on the weekend, i always watching movie which is subtitle and speaking in English. it helps me improving my listening and spelling as well as increase my vocab.

And here are my suggestions:

Hi, I am Ida, a student who tries to learn English every day. I spend my leisure time by reading English newspapers and writing my diary in English. All I want to do is just to practice and get to know English better (or, get used to English(?)). Even though I‘ve read a lot of (or, lots of) English newspapers and have written in English as well, my English grammar is still not in order.

On the weekends, I always watch a movie (or, movies (?)) whose subtitles and dialogues are in English. It helps (or, they help) me improve my listening, my spelling, and my vocab, as well.

And lastly, what about if we modify the title a bit to: “My English Learning Experience” or “My Experience in Learning English”?

ida

October 29, 2011

@ Swara: Many thanks to you for correcting my mistake. Shall I edit and post again like what you have corrected?
Thank you

Swara Bhaskara

October 29, 2011

You’re welcome
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Avata

October 29, 2011

Hi Ida,
Menurut saya tidak usah diganti, biarkan seperti yang awal, karena sudah ada koreksinya.

newman

November 1, 2011

Halo Ida, I would like to ask something related to your sentence “even then i read lot of English newspaper and write as well”. Why did you use “even then” and “as well”?. Why didn’t you use ” eventhough” and sentence without as well? what is the meaning as well in Indonesia?

thanks for your attention.

Swara Bhaskara

November 2, 2011

Hi Newman,

1. EVEN THEN

I suggested Ida to use even though (or, although, despite, in spite of) because of the clause “I‘ve read a lot of English newspapers and have written in English as well“, which is a paraphrase from “I spend my leisure time by reading English newspapers and writing my diary in English.“

Here, even then would also be suitable and still similar in meaning, but we need to omit that clause,

I spend my leisure time by reading English newspapers and writing my diary in English. All I want to do is just to practice and get to know English better. Even then, my English grammar is still not in order.

Other examples:

I studied hard last night. Even then, I did poorly on my exam. (Here, then is referring to “I studied hard last night“. The sentence is similar in meaning to “Although I studied hard last night, I still did poorly on my exam)

Newman: She is not only pretty but also kind and that’s why I love her so much.
Oldman: What if she were poor
Newman: Even then. (Here, even then = even if she were poor, I would still love her very much.

2. AS WELL = too = also