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reviews_and_ramblings ([personal profile] reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2009-10-21 08:42 pm

I'm ITALIAN!!!

I'm Italian, my first language is Italian not English, in my profile there is the evidence that I live in Italy, I have never said that I studied English in a professional way, I always alert my English friends when I have to meet them that I don't speak fluently in English...

so please could you stop to leave nasty comments about my foreign languages skill?

IF you want to comment to help me, to warn me about a grammar error, to alert me if my sentence was bad phrased so much that what I want to say is not clear, you are welcome to do so.

BUT if you only want to be offensive, than go in another blog. First I didn't ask you to come here, if you did, it was your choice. Second, how many foreign languages do you know? When I was in school, I had 10/10 in Italian, literature and grammar, plus above the average vote in History. I graduated in Economics with 103/110 in 3,5 years when the time lapse was 4, and when the average in my University (one of the best Economics facutly in Italy) was 7...

Do you have the same results as me? If so, you are allowed to leave nasty comments, IN ITALIAN, on my LJ. We can play at the same level.

[identity profile] bethann-korsmit.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
My husband is from the Netherlands, so his native language is Dutch. I went through the same type of thing whenever he would post something on my blog, myspace page, etc. People would get nasty about his English. I'd tell them that English isn't his first language, and as long as I understand what he's saying, stop complaining about what he writes. Since moving to the United States 3 years ago, his grammar has improved significantly.

Your English grammar is just fine. Like you said, if they don't like it - they can leave!

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you Bethann, I have always had the dream to live abroad for a period, but never had the chance... maybe, I will consider that sooner or later. Elisa