Could you help me, i want to find out how good is my english. I'd appreciatte any answer to this.?

Question

I have spanish as my first languaje, but i have taken english classes almost all my life.
Despite i haven't really had the oportunity to practice in the real life, i try to practice my reading, my written and listening trougth the tv series and movies.
This game have helped me a lot, since i try to ask and answer as much as i can in my free time, and that have helped me to improve my vocabulary.
Anyway, what i want is to ask you to read some of my old questions and answers, and maybe you can rate my english, could you?
Thank you very much, in advance.

I'd like to thank everyone of the answers, i really appreciate everyone of your commentaries, your advices, all the ideas i've gotten from you. Thank you all.
Spookysickness, RayleneD... great, you really took the time to answer!
RayleneD, the thing is that i live in Mexico, my son doesn't have friends who speaks english!!!!! that's my problem.
jlacroix1758, texada, i'd be glad to help you with your spanish.
Cub_Jonh, you are so rigth, i'll follow your advices.

Answer 1

You are easy to understand. Maybe you should use a “spell checker.” IOW, misspelling doesn’t really give anyone good clue that English isn’t your first language. However, the grammar is most obvious that English isn’t your first language. That doesn’t mean that your grammar is worse than a lot of people that English is their first language… it is just easier for us to detect.

It’s hard giving you any advice that might help you in general that will apply to other areas, so I only picked a couple of items.

You said, “Why have they choose the politics?”

You have two problems here. The word “the” doesn’t fit plus “have” and “choose” doesn’t fit. For instance, here are similar but different examples:

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Why did he chose baseball?

In that example, I am asking why someone (a guy) would chose the “sport” of baseball instead of some other sport.
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Why did he chose the baseball?

In that example, I am asking why someone (a guy) picked a type of ball… a baseball in this case. In other words, “Why didn’t he chose the football.” Or why did he chose that other “thing.”
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Getting back to what you said, “Why have they choose the politics?”

In that sentence or question you use the word, “choose.” To use that properly you would say, “Why will they choose politics?” That isn’t what you wanted to say, but that is how it would be used. Since I read “all” the stuff you said in that one question, I know what you were wanting to say… here is what you should have said or asked:

Why did they chose politics?

I think you would do best talking with a someone that speaks English as their first language. Listening to it is great but having daily conversations is much better. Part of the problem is that we English speakers know how Hispanics speak and we don’t correct them for minor things as we figure out what they are trying to say quickly. This is especially true for English speakers around Hispanics a lot.

If you don’t have a person that primary language is English, then use one of your son’s friend. I saw one of your questions where you say you have a 12 year old. Find one of his friends that English is his first language and tell him that you want him to correct you on all the little things. So every time he is over at the house spend some times talking to him. Tell other English speaker that you want them to correct you. Tell them they don’t have to “explain” it to you unless you ask… that you just want to be corrected. Otherwise they will waste a lot of your time.

One final point. You asked in one of your questions:

Some practical tips to leadering succesful development teams?

You should have asked, “Give me some practical tips to leading successful development teams?

Or:

What are some practical tips to leading successful development teams?



In that question the word that I noticed most as incorrect is “leadering.”

All in all you are doing real well.

If I were you I would pick one of your English speaking friends or coworkers and ask them to tell you the one thing they notice most that you need to correct. Then just concentrate on that one thing until you get it right. And have them correct you on that one area.

That’s what I did for the words, “them, their, and there” since growing up I had them all screwed up.

By the way, you have your profile as “Working Girl.” That’s cute and I like it but also understand that is also a slang for a prostitute. Only guys that are wanting to flirt with you will pick up on that and use it as the wrong meaning.

Answer 2

Here is your statement in correct form. Compare the differences to see for yourself how good/bad you are:

"I have Spanish as my first language, but I have taken English classes almost all my life.
Despite this, I haven't really had the opportunity to practice in real life. I try to practice my reading, writing, and listening through T.V. series and movies.
This game have helped me a lot, since I try to ask and answer as much as I can in my free time and that has helped me to improve my vocabulary.
Anyway, what I want to ask you is to read some of my old questions and answers and maybe rate my English. Will you?
Thank you very much in advance."

Overall: it's understandable and better than 45% of the native English users, but your grammar needs work especially when it comes to capitalization. Always capitalize languages and "I". Your tenses, also, need work as sometimes you'll have present and past tense all at once in the same sentence which you cannot do.
Use the "check spelling" button on your top right corner, it'll help.

Answer 3

Yo estoy Canadian, Yo aprendo espaniol (just started) como esta usted?
You are doing very well with your english, however if I could make some suggestions
You should say
Spanish is my first language. I have taken english classes almost all of my life. Despite this, I havent' really had the opportunity to practice in the real world. I have tried to practice my reading, my writing and listening throuth the TV and movies.
This forum (not game) has helped a lot because I have tried to ask and answer as many questions as I can in my free time. This has helped me to improve my vocabulary.
Anyways, what I want to ask is if anyone could read some of my old questions and answers and maybe rate my english.
Thank you in advance
or Thank you very much


Espaniol is mui interesante. Yo quiro to viajar en Mexico lo mas pronto!

I hope this helps, please feel free to email me if you would like further corrections
regards

Answer 4

Considering it IS your second language, it's actually very good.

One piece of advice though: I noticed your mistakes have more to do with spelling than anything else, so I guess now is the time to spend a little less time practicing your English by watching movies and listening to music and start doing some serious reading.

English is my second language as well, and it's been almost 4 years since I began reading two books written in English every month: anything from universal literature to technical books related to my profession. READ ALOUD to strenghen your tongue and throat muscles (those muscles are weaker in Spanish speakers), listen to your pronounciation and correct it.This is what's helped me improve my deficiencies

If you are a University graduate I feel it's important that your conversational and written English reflect that fact. Read books on your profession.

Keep up the excellent work and if there's anything I can help you with let me know...

Answer 5

You're doing really well, especially for someone who doesn't get to practice much. There are some small issues, like a couple of spelling things (language, not languaje), and some odd prepositions here and there, but it's not bad at all. You've got the basic grammar down, really practice is all you need and you'll be perfect. At this point though, you're definitely understandable, so don't worry about it too much. Hablo español, pero tampoco no tengo mucha oportunidad para practicarlo. Parece que tu inglés suena mejor que mi español. :)

If you'd like, contact me and we can practice our languages together :)

Answer 6

Your english is understandable and good, you have more or less good grammar, only confusing the tenses and the plural and singular form some times, but that's it.

Your vocabulary is ok, a little bit limited but that is normal for a ESL person. You made a few spelling mistakes constantly, but nothing that affects the meaning.

Overall keep practicing, try to speak more English.

Answer 7

well in reading this question there are 2 things i would change.

"practice in real life" not "practice in the real life"

"This game has helped me a lot" not "This game have helped me a lot"

and i would not call this a game...

"my writting and listening by watching movies" not "my written and listening trougth the tv series and movies"

there is noting wrong here just a little odd. i will say that you know that "a lot" is two words and may people with english get that wrong.

Answer 8

The more you do something; the better you get at it. I think you are coming along nicely. Expose yourself to it more by watching the news. Most TVs will let you turn on a caption area where it will come up in Spanish so if there is something you don't understand; you will know what it means. If you can master the news...you are "there".

Answer 9

I just read all of your question and have seen the quite many mistakes. You do quite well, but.... hmm, here are some mistakes:

Appreciatte- actually, appreciaTe
Languaje- actually, languaGe
Written- you would actually have to write "writing". Writing is the actual hobby. "Written" is a past action...

And it also might be best to write "I" instead of just "i". Last, Yahoo! Answers is not really a game... hope this helps and good luck! :)

Answer 10

You are doing better than some of the others here. Keep up the good work. You do have a few typo's but spell check helps with that.