AND YOU'RE PROBABLY RIGHT. As usual. I just, alskdjf, you know. With my sucky education and my tendency to fret over writing, it tends to result in those feelings. BUT I WILL TRY NOT TO WORRY SO MUCH
ESL speakers and patterns: Ah, I see. Well, in my case, last year I worked at the writing centre at my university, and most of the people who came in for help were international students. So after a time I started to notice patterns in the kind of errors that ESL writers make. Not perfect, but enough that I can usually tell now. That's why.
Anyway. Yeah, what you described sounds pretty much like what my French classes were like. I'm trying to re-learn it now, but it's so hard because I didn't really learn it in the first place. Add to that, when I was taking the classes, I was the only student who took the subject seriously. Everyone else pissed around and didn't do their work and the teacher just let it slide, so I couldn't concentrate, and... yeah. Majorly sucky.
As for French and Latin, I'm going to need to take both of them. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I need two languages in order to get my phD. Secondly, those languages are relevant to my area of study; medieval literature in England was generally written in Middle English, Old French or Latin. So having those two languages is best for me. I'd like to learn something else, like... I dunno, Finnish or something (pfff) but it just isn't practical.
......KSAJDFK why am I so obvious. *sobs* Well, I guess it isn't necessarily a bad thing, as you said. Someone said that it's because I'm verbose, and because I tend to say more than just random fannish comments. That seems okay. But even so, I wish I could be a sneaky ninja!
Anyway. Feel free to reply to this, but I won't be able to reply back aftere I return from my hiatus.
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Date: 2009-07-20 09:00 am (UTC)ESL speakers and patterns: Ah, I see. Well, in my case, last year I worked at the writing centre at my university, and most of the people who came in for help were international students. So after a time I started to notice patterns in the kind of errors that ESL writers make. Not perfect, but enough that I can usually tell now. That's why.
Anyway. Yeah, what you described sounds pretty much like what my French classes were like. I'm trying to re-learn it now, but it's so hard because I didn't really learn it in the first place. Add to that, when I was taking the classes, I was the only student who took the subject seriously. Everyone else pissed around and didn't do their work and the teacher just let it slide, so I couldn't concentrate, and... yeah. Majorly sucky.
As for French and Latin, I'm going to need to take both of them. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I need two languages in order to get my phD. Secondly, those languages are relevant to my area of study; medieval literature in England was generally written in Middle English, Old French or Latin. So having those two languages is best for me. I'd like to learn something else, like... I dunno, Finnish or something (pfff) but it just isn't practical.
......KSAJDFK why am I so obvious. *sobs* Well, I guess it isn't necessarily a bad thing, as you said. Someone said that it's because I'm verbose, and because I tend to say more than just random fannish comments. That seems okay. But even so, I wish I could be a sneaky ninja!
Anyway. Feel free to reply to this, but I won't be able to reply back aftere I return from my hiatus.