以下是引用lukrenee在2005-3-7 11:52:00的发言：这句说得不错，偶建议英文的目的是交流，让别人明白你，而不是显示你词汇多丰富，语法多规范，你上面这句话，偶会这样说：
I tried to be understood but, if I failed, just help me as mooncake MM did.
简单，明了，用最简单的词和句式让别人明白，这是好的英语，that's it.
Dear friend. I have to tell you something. I firmly believe that nobody here can speak perfect English, which is the reason why we are still here. So, my advice is do not laugh at or disparage somebody solely because of his or her English. I tell you truth. Although I challenge Grossman, I must confess his or her English is the best in Asia board. I guess he or she must have been lived or studied oversea for a long duration.
Considering the fact that even Grossman made mistakes sometimes, my concern here is simply this: is there anyone else who can be sure to make no mistake at all?
Moreover, let me cite another instance. I still remembered when I attend CEIBS's information sessions, a cool guy, who had got the offer from Wharton but eventually went to CEIBS and assumed the responsibility of a chairman of a club, told me that, in any event, nobody would disparaged you or doubted your abilities in terms of your language. Obviously, he is right.
Sometimes I used some advanced words, however, doing so is not the evidence that I like to show off. As a man of over 30, I know perfectly when and where I could do so. CD is a place where I have no guts to boast. Why? Because too many talented people here. The reason I do so simply arise from some facts which I’d like to share with anyone else.
Most of us often encounter the embarrassing scenario in which we found ourselves failed to remember vocabularies soundly, even the vocabularies we had learned just the last night. Say, learned 50 words, but next morning only 10 remained in my head. Why? Because I hardly have opportunity to utilize them. Right? Now CD provides us such platform where we all can use English to communicate. Why waste this hard-won chance? We complained about shortness of so-called “language environments”. Ironically, when they do appear, around us, we miss them.
I hope somebody could point out when I committed mistakes by constructive means, as mooncake did, rather than destructive means.
In fact, I do not think my English is that horrible.
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