strict and serious teachers WANTED!
 

Kon ni chi wa.
I am Mayumi from Japan.

I have been learning English for ages!
but it's never been easy!

I have lived in Australia for a while to study English,
but now I am back in Japan and have less chance to
use it.

I can speak English this much (as you see right now).

but for a long time I have been feeling I am stuck!


I would like to be able to use English words and grammar properly.

I don't want to do such thing I did when I was a beginner...

On a bus in Melbourne

I wanted an old lady to take a seat,

but I didn't know how to say it properly,

so I said....

" you, sit down",

see?

how rude the language beginner could be?!

so I am afraid I could sound rude to someone again without me noticing it!
so, if I write anything here sounds not-nice (rude), I probably didn't mean it,
"excuse me and forgive me!" in advance!

I really really want to improve my English skills!


I have good friends saying they can help me anytime!, but
I know I make mistakes too often, so I feel too bad to ask them
all the time, I know they will get sick of it!


so I need you guys! Can you be my teacher? especially a strict one?

even a little mistake, I would like to know.

and of course for you, I will be your strict Japanese teacher to improve your Japanese!

Please correct this message for me and leave your message in Japanese, and I will correct yours!;)

Your English is very good! I will be more than happy to help you in English, especially if you are wanting to do it at an advanced level. My name is Misa and I am from England. If you want me to help you, you can PM me and that is fine. I'll try and help you best I can, English is my native language and one of my best subjects at school, so I hope that is the kind of thing you are looking for. I can teach you what is polite too, if you are worried about that.

More than happy to help you, Mayumi.

I think your grammar is fine and I can understand you perfectly.

I can see that English is your second language because of the words you choose and the way you use them but it doesn't matter because there are so many ways you can speak English.

文法がいいと思って、ちょうど分かりました。
(I think your grammar is good and I can understand you perfectly)
あなたの英語が少し変ですけど英語は色々な話す方があ るから、心配しないでください。
(Although your English is a little bit strange, don't worry because there are many ways you can speak English.)
とにかく、あまり書けません。日本語は去年だけ初めて 勉強したんです。:)
(Anyway, I can't write much. I only started studying Japanese last year)

Here are a few small mistakes.

but it's never been easy!
but it hasn't been easy

grammer
grammar

I don't want to do such thing I did when I was a beginner...
I didn't want/never wanted to do this when I was a beginner

so I am afraid I could sound rude to someone again without me noticing it! so, if I write anything here sounds not-nice (rude), I probably didn't mean it, "excuse me and forgive me!" in advance!
so I am afraid THAT I could sound rude to someone again without me noticing it! If I write anything here that sounds rude, I probably didn't mean it so "excuse me and forgive me" in advance.

(Just a tip, an exclamation mark ends a sentence in the same way a full stop does. I don't think there are any exceptions.)

Ronin4hire said:

Here are a few small mistakes.

but it's never been easy!
but it hasn't been easy

Well, like he said - there are many ways to speak English! lol because I would have said it the exact same way you did!! So I wouldn't call that a mistake.

(ok ... don't know why I can't get the quote thing to work btw!)

I suppose you're correct as it's can be the shortening of it has. (It has never been easy). I never shorten "It has" to It's. I only shorten "It is" to it's which is why I looked at it as a mistake. :vsign:

what I put in bold orange are the mistakes I see...the could/would could be used as eith...I'm just used to would so that's why I put that.
Yes, I put that comma there haha...I had a very strict English teacher [and an old one at that...]

True

BUT those words have a slight difference. 'could' meaning a slight possibility and 'would' meaning definitely.

I COULD go to the mall if I had money

I WOULD go to the mall if I had money

But yes WOULD is the better word. THOUGH, she could also use 'might'.

so I am afraid I could[MIGHT] sound rude [to someone] again without me noticing it!

I put [to someone] in a bracket because it's not necessary. The point is that you don't want to sound rude again...So, it being 'someone' doesn't matter. unless that someone has a name :p Gotta love english lol ><

English tries to take shortcuts and make sentences as short as possible without being hard to read. for example when we use "Don't' for Do not
"wouldn't" for Would not and 'i've' for I have.

...I think I made that even more confusing then it should be >< sorry!


I'm not criticising you. I'm just putting this incase she asks 'why could or would?'

Aligatoh GodNickSatan!
 

Thank you Nick Sensei, talk to you later:ywave:

aligato Misa!
 

Thank you, Misa.
Yes I would like to learn polite way to say things too.

Please let me help you with your Japanese study, too!
so leave your Japanese message here, I would love to be
a strict teacher for you too!;)