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Differences between Spoken English and Written English

February 3rd, 2010 admin

There are some very notable dif­fer­ences between writ­ten and spo­ken Eng­lish. Spo­ken Eng­lish, as a lan­guage is quite relaxed. This means that in many occa­sions peo­ple speak and their Eng­lish gram­mar is not quite cor­rect. Often peo­ple will say things like, ‘If I was a boy’ which does not sound too gram­mat­i­cally incor­rect, but in writ­ten form it looks slightly odd. The rea­son is that ‘if’ is already a ‘wish­ing word’ and, as such, needs the sub­junc­tive tense to be used. So the proper writ­ten form of this sen­tence is, ‘If I were a boy’. It is also notable that when one is writ­ing, he/she tends to use words that would not nor­mally be used when speak­ing about the same subject.

Differences between Spoken English and Written English

Dif­fer­ences between Spo­ken Eng­lish and Writ­ten English

It is thus easy when speak­ing Eng­lish to get away with not hav­ing very good gram­mar, but this will show up when the same words are writ­ten down. If one is learn­ing Eng­lish, it is impor­tant to try to make sure that gram­mar is checked. You should make sure that when you are speak­ing Eng­lish you pay atten­tion to gram­mar and gram­mat­i­cal issues. When writ­ing in Eng­lish, ensure that you always check your gram­mar, either using an online gram­mar check­ing pack­age, or just by going through it. But the gram­mar checker is much more reliable.

Try­ing to speak Eng­lish as it is writ­ten helps you make sure that you don’t allow your stan­dard of gram­mar to slip. In spo­ken lan­guage, every­thing we talk will give some mean­ing and the lis­tener is not par­tic­u­lar about the gram­mat­i­cal cor­rect­ness of the lan­guage. He/she is inter­ested only to get the sub­ject but when it comes to writ­ten Eng­lish, every­body will keenly observe all these things and a small mis­take, becomes a big issue. In my opin­ion, peo­ple who write good Eng­lish will def­i­nitely increase their spo­ken Eng­lish skills.

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Speaking English Clearly and Grammatically Can Boost Your Success

August 5th, 2009 admin

Speak­ing good Eng­lish does not mean using com­plex words which leave your audi­ence per­plexed but rather, using clear and gram­mat­i­cally cor­rect Eng­lish words. Speak­ing cor­rect Eng­lish tells your audi­ences that you are a pro­fes­sional who knows the mean­ing of suc­cess and has taken time to mas­ter this impor­tant language.

If for are a pro­fes­sional whose work involves a lot of talk­ing, then speak­ing clearly will serve to ensure that your mes­sage is deliv­ered in the best way pos­si­ble. To speak clearly, you have to pro­nounce the words as they should and speak in such a way to make the audi­ence under­stand you, not too slow, not too fast. Too slow may be bor­ing and no one will hear you if you are too fast.

reading-english

reading-english

It’s good to iden­tify and accept your weak­nesses con­cern­ing the lan­guage and seek pro­fes­sional help. Enroll for classes to boost your gram­mar and prob­a­bly pub­lic speak­ing classes to help you speak clear Eng­lish. Get experts to teach you on how to pro­nounce words. If you are in busi­ness, this will prob­a­bly be worth it con­sid­er­ing the stiff com­pe­ti­tion in the market.

Worth not­ing is that if you are to deliver a speech, be pre­pared hours before the func­tion. When you know what you are going to talk about per­haps writ­ten down in short notes helps you con­struct sen­tences in your head faster than when you are not prepared.

As a stu­dent, learn­ing to speak good Eng­lish will help you write well too and you can express your ideas bet­ter in your exam papers and get good marks. Pass­ing well in school is just the first sign of success.

Hav­ing clear and gram­mat­i­cally cor­rect words may not help you if you can­not com­bine them in the right order to pro­duce coher­ent sen­tences. Hence know­ing how to con­struct sen­tences is cru­cial too.

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Learning Basic English Is Easy

July 2nd, 2009 admin

How many times have you thought about going back to school because the level of your Eng­lish gram­mar errors is wor­ry­ing? Poor gram­mar can impede your busi­ness rela­tions or it can affect your con­fi­dence in class and all. Eng­lish is not the first lan­guage to many, but its com­mand defines you. To learn­ers, there are auto­matic gram­mar mis­takes and poor sen­tence con­struc­tion. This prob­lem changes after few lessons, tests and ideas. A teacher stands in to give direc­tion to a learner.

Read widely. It can be fic­tion or non fic­tion books. They give you more pat­terns when it comes to Eng­lish. Like any other world lan­guage, sim­plic­ity is the hall mark of learn­ing. Eng­lish is sim­ple. This is how good spelling and gram­mar is built. You are not learn­ing to impress but to com­mu­ni­cate. When under going the learn­ing, flu­ent nature ought to come later.

english-basics

english-basics

There is noth­ing like too much read­ing. In fact read­ing has never been more than enough as it is a knowl­edge that learn­ers live with for­ever. Sim­pli­fied terms and sen­tences work for every­one. If you can under­stand what you have writ­ten about, another per­son who is going to read your sen­tences will also under­stand. You have to see the sense in your sen­tences. You need to write a sen­tence and put your self in the shoes of other readers.

Tune to known radio and tele­vi­sion net­works and lis­ten to how they read and deliver sto­ries. The Eng­lish used is sim­ple and neu­tral. This kind of spe­cial Eng­lish is accept­able world over. You’ll improve on pro­nun­ci­a­tion when you make it a habit of lis­ten­ing to such media. Soft­ware of text to speech read­ers is com­mon these days. This tech­no­log­i­cal soft­ware can be down­loaded to assist learn­ers. A book is the trea­sure to learn­ing English.

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Leaning English Writing Using A Software

May 19th, 2009 admin

The Eng­lish lan­guage is the most inter­na­tion­ally known and used lan­guage of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. This sin­gle fact makes it most imper­a­tive to learn it and use it well for both writ­ten and spo­ken com­mu­ni­ca­tion. The Eng­lish lan­guage struc­ture is one of the sim­plest yet. Word and sen­tence con­struc­tion rules, once under­stood, make for very inter­est­ing communication.

Daily use of cor­rect spo­ken and writ­ten Eng­lish that adheres to the gram­mat­i­cal rules of the lan­guage is most encour­aged as it is the only way through which the integrity of the lan­guage can be pre­served and upheld. There are today sev­eral ways in which learn­ing the Eng­lish lan­guage, for writ­ing pur­poses in par­tic­u­lar, can be accomplished.

Leaning English Writing Using A Software

Lean­ing Eng­lish Writ­ing Using A Software

Use of Eng­lish writ­ing soft­wares is one of the ways to do this. The won­ders of mod­ern tech­nol­ogy have pro­vided the world with a com­pe­tent aid to ensure an eas­ier and bet­ter way to pro­duce lit­eral work in Eng­lish that brings out all that is beau­ti­ful in the Eng­lish language.

Among the main chal­lenges that encum­ber peo­ple when it comes to pro­duc­ing good writ­ing in Eng­lish is gram­mar. Gram­mar entails the cor­rect use of words in word and sen­tence con­struc­tion. The answer to this has been pro­vided in spe­cially made soft­ware that cor­rect and guide one on how to attain good gram­mat­i­cal skills. These soft­wares are designed in such user friendly ways that one hardly needs super­vi­sion to use them. The soft­wares work by cor­rect­ing gram­mat­i­cal errors as one writes which horns one’s writ­ing skills in no time.

Eng­lish writ­ing soft­wares have inbuilt capa­bil­i­ties to guide one in use of punc­tu­a­tion marks, proof read­ing com­pleted work and giv­ing trans­la­tions and def­i­n­i­tions of words that will go a long way in enrich­ing a writer’s vocab­u­lary. The soft­wares are updated every so often with new words and ways to use them through data­bases to ensure relevance.

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