near-native??? I have to say I didn't pay any attention to it till I viewthread your novel.
it is of great fun!
One of my foreign teachers had told me that language is a tool of communication, so try to use most simple
words to express your ideas. This became my slogan from that moment till now.
I viewthread a lot but keep very little in my mind, since I can't recall any famous sentences. and my vocabulary of
"high- level words" is very limited...
When I started working for my current boss, a white man, I found a new world of using English,
say, I'm trying to be creative, especially in using nouns as verbs...
But I never think of making my English as good as native speakers or so called "near-native".
I can make others understand what I'm talking about, that's enough.
eh, I remember a leader of a southeast country had said we shouldn't deem British or American
or Australian English as "native", since in his country, English is widely accepted and used for decades,
then their English also should be regarded as native language
This happened in that famous financial crisis.
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本帖最后由 ocherry16 于 2006-4-10 08:40 编辑 ]