You should spend more time improving yourself as an intellectual. Instead of wasting all your time making up excuses and having answers for everything. There is an old saying where I come from. Those who makes excuses, don't do anything else, but make excuses.
You probably won't understand what I'm trying to say, but I hope you do and I hope you understand what flaws you need to address. You are the only person limiting your potential. Happy writing.
Lyriko 9/20/09 . chapter 1
I feel highly insulted by you. As a person that is a non-native speaker, I studied hard in school to be at least passable in english, french, latin, and german. Here you are telling the world, that you can't and refuse to master a simple set of grammar, because you're a non-native speaker. I hate to tell you, but everywhere you go, you'll need to know grammar, punctuation and spelling. No matter where you run to in the world. English has been found to be the easiest language in the world to learn. Are you telling me that you can't even master the simplest language in the world? If you fail at english. How are you going to learn anything else? Oh, and when you have to put on your big girl pants and go out to find a job, your grammar, punctuation, and spelling will dictate, if you get the job at all. Yes! Something as simple as grammar and spelling.
WEll, I just can't help but rubbing it in. English isn't my mother tongue either. In fact, it's the third language I speak after my mother tongues German and Italian, and may I add, I speak French, too.
But spelling and grammar are crucial when learning a language. You really should look into that.
And you might start with running your stories by a native speaking BETA. That would improve the stories a lot.
Regards,
milmirjia
Greet the Wave!
Romey 9/19/09 . chapter 1
Your grammar is horrible. I can't even tell if you were trying to be intentionslly funny or not. Learn english, okay. I am not very good in english. But, at least, I can spell good enough so people don't get a headache trying to read my writing. Half of the people on this site are not native speakers, so you don't need to pull the "I'm not a native speaker" card.
You have terrible grammar. English being your second language is not a valid excuse to have horrible grammar. I, too, am a ESL person, and I'm not about to be caught dead with elementary school level grammars.