рабочее

[strega verde]

поставила себе тайм трекер, чтобы узнать наконец в точности сколько времени у меня занимает внеурочная деятельность типа подготовки к занятиям и проверки домашних заданий. Результат нехорошо впечатляет

рабочий момент и бубубу на английском

IELTS essays seem to be the most challenging and, incidentally, the most time-consuming task. It’s not only the answering-exactly-the-question-asked trickery and the intricacies of structure and cohesion, it’s actually the English language itself. So many variations, it’s almost unbearable. From time to time I feel the urge to correct some wording that seems to be slightly off, and it’s those instances when you have to be especially careful. My gut feeling is almost never wrong in the sense that the option I choose is as a rule the most commonly used one, but the problem is that the ones that my students use are also not wrong, albeit somewhat less common. And the thing is, in most cases I’m not even aware of the existing alternatives. For instance, just today I almost (automatically) corrected “starved of” to “starved for”, which would have been exceedingly unnecessary since both options are absolutely fine, although mine is roughly twice as common (according to, respectively, Merriam-Webster online dictionary and my brief Google search). The point is, every time you want to correct something ever-so-slightly less than obvious, you should stop and think twice. Actually, it makes for a good rule to follow in everyday life, as well.

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[lindare~]

Actually, it makes for a good rule to follow in everyday life, as well.

So true!

[strega verde]

lindare~,
yeah thing is, it's actually not hard for me to follow this rule, because usually I'm either not 100 percent sure I'm right or just can't be bothered one way or another the problem is, I (naturally ) expect the same treatment from others and get seriously irritated when someone tries to correct me (especially when they might be wrong, lol). To me, it seems to be just bad manners to point out one's mistakes when not asked

[lindare~]

strega verde, oh I see Yeah, unwanted feedback is often annoying. However, I've learned to appreciate even, because you can't really escape it if you live in a foreign language environment...