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Question 2. I am not sure if I can nail it, just take whatever suits you.

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Five years ago, I wrote an advertisement for a product. After spending hours and hours on choosing right words and brainstorming mind-blowing catchphrases, convinced that there were no grammer errors, I proudly showed it to a retired school teacher in anticipation of some complements. I was taken back in shame by his response. He said:" I know what you mean, but we don't write like this." Paraphrase: You still don't know how to write.
China's grammer-intensive English teaching made us tend to treat grammer as ironclad frame, whereas words as bricks that can be thrown in. If you somehow could "unlearn" this, after reading 100 books, I truly doubt you can find any trace of Chinese in your writing. I know you already know this, unfortunately that is the only way. If there are any other shortcuts that I am not aware of, please share with me.
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  • 工作学习 / 外语学习 / 请新来的高手eric_2003酒专家赏光谈谈这两个问题 -heater(美帝苏修); 2011-9-30 {384} (#6954417@0)
    1. 说话时语法混乱怎么解决？请不要泛泛地说只要多说就练就可以。我有个表姐夫在医疗系统工作十二年，每天上班八小时，对患者说话六小时。语法还是一团乱。发音比语法还稍好些。

    2. 写作还是中文思维怎么办？请不要泛泛地说只要多写多练就可以。我自己写作的问题就是虽然能清楚表达，少有语法或逻辑错误，但整个的思维还是受中式行文的影响，用词也经常不够准确。总之一看就是非英语母语也非英语专业人士写的。
    • Question 1. Is he motivated? My impression is that he is pretty content with what he has: good job, comfortable with clinical English after 12 years of work, why bother keeping pushing it? He is not obsessed. -eric_2003(Wine Expert); 2011-9-30 (#6957533@0)
      • 看来是这么回事。他口口声声说想提高英语，实际只是现代版的叶公好龙。 -heater(美帝苏修); 2011-10-1 (#6957629@0)
    • 多读多听。 -wincity(红卫兵); 2011-9-30 (#6957547@0)
    • Question 2. I am not sure if I can nail it, just take whatever suits you. -eric_2003(Wine Expert); 2011-10-1 {859} (#6957586@0)
      Five years ago, I wrote an advertisement for a product. After spending hours and hours on choosing right words and brainstorming mind-blowing catchphrases, convinced that there were no grammer errors, I proudly showed it to a retired school teacher in anticipation of some complements. I was taken back in shame by his response. He said:" I know what you mean, but we don't write like this." Paraphrase: You still don't know how to write.
      China's grammer-intensive English teaching made us tend to treat grammer as ironclad frame, whereas words as bricks that can be thrown in. If you somehow could "unlearn" this, after reading 100 books, I truly doubt you can find any trace of Chinese in your writing. I know you already know this, unfortunately that is the only way. If there are any other shortcuts that I am not aware of, please share with me.
      • 我想解决的就是你说的这个问题：“I know what you mean, but we don't write like this.” -heater(美帝苏修); 2011-10-1 (#6957631@0)

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