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How much are you conscious about your English Grammar? How much confidence you have about talking and assuring your sentence built is correct? Do you know what's the rule in English? How about the Subject-verb agreement? when shall I use can and could in a word? isn't it confusing using in, on and at in a sentence??

My English sucks coz I have been grammatically wrong with my sentence. Sometimes I am having doubts to speak! :-/ I also like to learn those American slangs like "get a grip", "word" and etc I have forgot about it. My head aches every time I do not understand what is an article is talking about I just can't understand them and I can't translate it on Google translate coz they are very literal in translating in English to Filipino. However, I appreciate those people who use simple English (understandable) with correct grammar. Im sorry guys if I sound so naïve but I am feeling determined. hehehe.

pinkstone wrote:How much are you conscious about your English Grammar? How much confidence you have about talking and assuring your sentence built is correct? Do you know what's the rule in English? How about the Subject-verb agreement? when shall I use can and could in a word? isn't it confusing using in, on and at in a sentence??

My English sucks coz I have been grammatically wrong with my sentence. Sometimes I am having doubts to speak! :-/ I also like to learn those American slangs like "get a grip", "word" and etc I have forgot about it. My head aches every time I do not understand what is an article is talking about I just can't understand them and I can't translate it on Google translate coz they are very literal in translating in English to Filipino. However, I appreciate those people who use simple English (understandable) with correct grammar. Im sorry guys if I sound so naïve but I am feeling determined. hehehe.

Based on what you have posted so far you do not have much to worry about Pinkstone. Even those with English as their first language frequently make mistakes. Then you have to consider what is English? Is it the language spoken in England or is it the language spoken in North America? They are surprisingly different, then you have to consider further variations spoken in other parts of the world. Even Filipino English has its differences. You used the word slang above. In English English slang is the use of a word to mean another, often with intent to make it insulting. For example 'gay' has become slang for a homosexual. Filipinos told me I spoke slang and it upset me as I was being polite and had no wish to insult them. It was only later I understood that in Filipino English slang means speaking with an accent.

For me the most confusing mistake made by Filipinos is when they use 'he', 'him' and 'his' when referring to a lady and 'she', 'her' and 'hers' when referring to a man. I have had a Filipino telling me about one person, yet because they used 'he' and 'she' I thought they were talking about two or three people.

So do not let it 'give you a nosebleed', (a wonderful descriptive Filipino saying) the only way to learn is to make mistakes.

yeah right chas, dont worry sis pinkstone its ok as long as you communicate to other people in english . like me i admit sometimes my grammar is so bad but, ill try to learn from it.

we might not good in english grammar sis pinkstone, but we can able to communicate well to others just what have said of angel atleast we try our best to communicate with them thru english .. further more we can learn more english here in the forum so read and post. and hope some of americans here can correct our grammar sometimes if its really bad.

I saw a Couple of newly weds on the Beach holding hands .. I thought it was Beautiful and all they did was smile at each other . It was like they New a Secret that No One else needed to know . Some times Actions are better then words ..

wayne208 wrote:I saw a Couple of newly weds on the Beach holding hands .. I thought it was Beautiful and all they did was smile at each other . It was like they New a Secret that No One else needed to know . Some times Actions are better then words ..

maybe actions speak louder than words. but i want both so sweet if you did in actions and also with that inspiring magical words and thats is so amazing. it makes you feel more love by someone you love

pinkstone wrote:How much are you conscious about your English Grammar? How much confidence you have about talking and assuring your sentence built is correct? Do you know what's the rule in English? How about the Subject-verb agreement? when shall I use can and could in a word? isn't it confusing using in, on and at in a sentence??

My English sucks coz I have been grammatically wrong with my sentence. Sometimes I am having doubts to speak! :-/ I also like to learn those American slangs like "get a grip", "word" and etc I have forgot about it. My head aches every time I do not understand what is an article is talking about I just can't understand them and I can't translate it on Google translate coz they are very literal in translating in English to Filipino. However, I appreciate those people who use simple English (understandable) with correct grammar. Im sorry guys if I sound so naïve but I am feeling determined. hehehe.

My English sucks as well. But I am trying my best to improve it.

chaychay644 it will improve when you talk everyday to english people also with your husband that a foreigner. i have a friend also that no how to speak English but all of the sudden when we met she is very good now because he marry a english man.

I am not fluent in american english. I am here in states yet my english still sucks. I am still corrected sometimes by my daughters esp with pronounciation and vocabulary. I admit I always make the male as female and female as male! He and She, her and him....common mistakes of pinoys...my husband told me once that is why you got bunch of gays in phils. haha! Sometimes i talk to my daughters in english but end of sentence is Bisaya...esp when im getting irritated I talk in Bisaya and they look at me in wondering mood. It is frustrating. So I came up this filipino channel to help them learn filipino language.

angel wrote:chaychay644 it will improve when you talk everyday to english people also with your husband that a foreigner. i have a friend also that no how to speak English but all of the sudden when we met she is very good now because he marry a english man.

You are right Angel, I admit that my English vocabulary and grammar has improved a lot since when I started communicating with my husband. Thanks to him!