What are some questions that a non native English speaker could answer on Quora?
I agree with Mark Harrison and Miguel Paraz. Any of them is really the right answer to this question. If you are not very confident about expressing yourself in English, it might be easy to start with questions that deal with things you have good knowledge of. Many non native speakers fumble when it comes to everyday conversation but are well versed in the technical terms of their field. For instance, if you have a degree/work experience related to chemistry, you can start by answering questions in Chemistry. Another avenue is topics like Movies, Life and Living, etc. that have many questions that ask for personal experiences or opinions. There are many questions in Movies, especially, that can be answered with captioned images or bullet lists.But really, the only criterion to choose is to find questions that make you want to write. If you see a question that makes you think " I know the answer to that!" or " Hmm...some nice answers here but no one seems to have explored X angle." or simply "I have a story to tell!" that's all that's needed.You will find great writing to learn from here on Quora and plenty of users who will happily suggest edits to your content should you make any grammatical mistakes. So go ahead and write :)
Are there any native English speakers who can help me with my English?
The original question is:Is there any native English speaker interested to be my pen pal friend to help me improve my English?In return I could help you with italianAnswer:You might try PenPal World. Please note that I cannot personally vouch for the integrity of any pen-pal websites, since I do not use any.Also see these other Quora topics with similar questions:Where can I find a pen pal or a pen friend through the internet, so that I can improve my English speaking and writing ability?Are there any recommendations for good websites or other ways to make an online friend or a pen pal?What are the best ways to find native English speakers interested in communicating with students to improve their English as a foreign language?Hey Pen-pals by Saket Agarwal on Quora Pen-Pals
Native English speakers, could you please help me with these issues?
1. Which of the two are correct: a) "It was easy for him to move to Australia, because he had a brother who was already there, so by the time he arrived, he had both someone to receive him and to guide him ON the first days." b) ""It was easy for his father to move to Australia, because he had a brother who was already there, so by the time he arrived, he had both someone to receive him and to guide him IN the first days."
Native English speakers, could you please help me with these issues?
"On" and "In". Those can be tricky for non-native speakers. When talking about physical objects, it's easy. A cup can be ON a table. It can be IN a cabinet. If a cup is ON a cabinet that means you set the cup on the top of the cabinet rather than putting it INSIDE the cabinet. It gets even more confusing with geography. The state of Virginia is IN the United States, but it is ON the continent of North America. We think of a continent as an OBJECT, but a country as a set of boundaries. Thus, someone can be IN a country but ON a continent. With TIME, I think that's the trickiest of all. A concert can be held ON a certain date, or ON certain days. But we often say of the past, "Back IN those days ... ". I'm not quite sure what the RULE is for when you use "In" and "On" when talking about time. I THINK that if you're talking about a SPECIFIC range of dates, you use "on". "On February 4th through February 6th, this meme spread around the internet." But if the time period is more vague, you'd use "in". "In the last few weeks ..." or "In the following weeks ... ". You know ... it's something native speakers never give a second thought. It's one of those things we do without even thinking about WHY. I'm sure there's a formal RULE somewhere. I just have no idea what it is. When in doubt, "during" would work in both cases. "Disseminate" is an okay word. You could use, "Spread across" rather than "Disseminated on".
Native english speaker please help!?
1 It is better to fail in originality than to succed in imitation. he who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Means that it's better to come up with your own ideas, even if they're failures, instead of just copying someone else's ideas. 2 a penny saved is a penny earned. To save money is exactly the same as earning money. At the end of the day you have the money. 3 god help those who help themselves. Don't just sit around and wait for help. You have to take steps to get help yourself. 4 nothing is certain except death and taxes. There are no guarantees in life, except that everyone pays taxes and everyone dies. 5 works with obvious meaning, cease to be art. Part of creating art is to add your own interpretation of what the piece actually means. 6 to be great is to be misunderstood. Greatness implies that you are on a "different level" than most people. Therefore those people tend to misunderstand your greatness. (This one's hard to explain!)
Do you understand this question as a native English speaker, and can you rewrite it to be easier to understand?
I sort of understand but I’m not quite sure exactly what you’re trying to say, so if I get this wrong please correct me and I’ll do my best to write it to explain exactly what you mean.“Is depression featured by drawing negative conclusions (judging) too early, put differently, mindful meditations are training brains to observe without judging, therefor it'll replace the habit to draw negative conclusions with patience to cure it?“I’d probably go with:“Is depression caused by judging negatively too early? In other words, when we use mindful meditation to train our brains to stop being so judgmental, will it replace the habit of immediately judging and help people be more patient with getting better?”Three things:Personally, as a native speaker, I’d use therefore instead of therefor. But on this I could be wrong.What exactly do you mean by “it?” What are you judging? Is it yourself? Other people? Your environment?I’m not sure what you mean by having the “patience to cure it.” Are you saying that we will possibly be able to cure depression? To me it sounds like you’re asking if meditation will also help people have the patience to get better. In other words, you won’t get better immediately so you need to have patience.Again, I could have interpreted this wrong. Please let me know if I do so. You could also just say, “is depression caused by judging [whatever it is] too early and will meditation help stop that [you could probably add in: while helping someone be patient in their progress]?”Your words are very sophisticated if I were to describe them, but remember, not everything has to be put in super formal writing. Sometimes basic sentences work better. However, aside from the question being slightly confusing, your sentence was nice as in the way you built it and how you used different words to try and convey what you were saying.Again, please tell me if I interpreted anything wrong. Hope this helps!
English help easy question?
The cuscus lives in New Guinea, Indonesia, and northern Australia. It is about the size of a house cat and is 8covered with fur to the tip of its coarse, scaly tale. The cuscus is a nocturnal animal and lives in trees. Read the underlined section 8. There is a mistake in the use of Standard American English conventions. Which of these answers BEST corrects that error? A) course B) it's C) scaley D) tail
Native English speakers, could you please help me with this issue:?
"An" comes before a word that starts with a vowel, or a "vowel sound" . "an function" is incorrect. "a function" is correct. If you mean someone is away, or out, for an appointment, you can say that. "She's out of the office for the afternoon" A "function" is generally used for a social gathering or formal event, such as one to raise money.
Can a native English speaker easily notice when a Quora question is answered by a non-native speaker? If so, what's the most common mistake made by a non-native speaker?
No. Not usually, whenever the non-native speaker is a very skilled english communicator.I agree with the comments here of G. Tomkins and W. Kasmer, but I also really notice missing punctuation (esp. missing question marks and semicolons), using commas or dashes instead of periods, using the wrong preposition for a category of words, and using the wrong synonym in a place where 1 or 2 or 3 other synonyms are better suited, and always tend to be used in a particular context, instead. Sometimes the exact bad word choice (i.e., “we went by shop” instead of “…to the shop”) will help me guess country of origin. E.g., see What are some grammatical mistakes that non-native English speakers from Korea commonly make?Asking someone to give a quick glance at something you've written, for possible edits, and/or, to take the time to correct you, when you've spoken awkwardly, is the best way to learn the thousands of typical word pairings and “better phrasings” that college-educated native speakers take for granted.No one knows all of the idioms used in English over the last 50 years, but native speakers will have a knack for noticing when your literary Trope, Figure of speech, Catch-phrase, Idiom, Bromide (platitude), or another Archetype is used in a way that suggests unintended irony, unintended criticism of, or insincerity in, the actions of the subject, or some lack of context to the rest of your written paragraph.See the answers to these Quora Q's for more:What are the most common mistakes that non-native English speakers make?What are some words that a 10-year-old native speaker of English knows but an advanced non-native English speaker does not?
Is there an easy way to help a native English speaker differentiate between the 't' and 'th' sounds in Vietnamese?
Whereas 't' in English is sounded with the tip of your tongue in contact with your upper front teeth and with a bit of your breath exhaled as you speak out the word, in Vietnamese, the tongue's front should touch above the teeth (almost the same as you would do a 'd' in English) but with almost no exhale of air at all as your tongue moves.Whereas 'th' in English is started with your tongue's tip sticking out just under your upper teeth, 'th' in Vietnamese is done with your tongue started out in the same position as 't' above, but exhaled with much air and lighter release of your tongue as you sound out the rest of the word.