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CharmYou Posted 12 years ago
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I find it really hard to get along with my dad. I don't like it when he mocks the English I listen to. We are Chinese so none of us speak English in our daily life, but I like learning to English so I listen to English a lot at home. However, my dad likes mocking the English I listen to! He's a ridiculous geezer! He thinks the English intonation abnormally silly and he basically criticizes me for listening to the kind of "non-standard" English. He definitely enjoys belittling and criticizing me. He advised I should stop listening to the colloquial conversations and start listening to news broadcast. In the conversational English I listen to, the pitch moves up and down, which is unlike the Chinese he is used to speaking and listening to. That's why my dad criticizes it for being non-standard. In actual fact, any normal conversational English intonation would sound non-standard to my dad's Chinese ears. My dad has been flunking English since elementary school. He's definitely a terrible English learner! I don't think he's qualified to make any suggestion since he's NOT able to speak English at all. What constantly gets on my nerves is that he mocks the English I listen to, and makes fun of it! That's totes absurd!
I find it really hard to get along with my dad. I don't like it when he mocks the English I listen to. We are Chinese so none of us speak English in our daily life, but I like learning to English so I listen to English a lot at home. However, my dad likes mocking the English I listen to! He's a ridiculous geezer! He thinks the English intonation abnormally silly and he basically criticizes me for listening to the kind of "non-standard" English. He definitely enjoys belittling and criticizing me. He advised I should stop listening to the colloquial conversations and start listening to news broadcast. In the conversational English I listen to, the pitch moves up and down, which is unlike the Chinese he is used to speaking and listening to. That's why my dad criticizes it for being non-standard. In actual fact, any normal conversational English intonation would sound non-standard to my dad's Chinese ears. My dad has been flunking English since elementary school. He's definitely a terrible English learner! I don't think he's qualified to make any suggestion since he's NOT able to speak English at all. What constantly gets on my nerves is that he mocks the English I listen to, and makes fun of it! That's totes absurd!
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That's written very well geezer, flunks and totes are more local words, and are out of context with the main style, particularly totes. "but I like learning English" (no 'to') " listening to "non-standard" English " (or the kind of ... that I do) "listening to colloquial conversation(s)" "listening to news broadcasts" you might want to experiment with some different types of punctuation, such as ; : - d
- That's written very well geezer, flunks and totes are more local words, and are out of context with the main style, particularly totes.
- "but I like learning English" (no 'to') " listening to "non-standard" English " (or the kind of ...
- that I do) "listening to colloquial conversation(s)" "listening to news broadcasts" you might want to experiment with some different types of punctuation, such as ; : - d
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That's written very well 
geezer, flunks and totes are more local words, and are out of context with the main style, particularl
geezer, flunks and totes are more local words, and are out of context with the main style, particularl
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meteorquakeyou might want to experiment with some different types of punctuation, such as ; : -What's this "-" minus? How do you use this punctuation? Math?
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