After reading the “Black Talk and Pop Culture”, I got a further understanding of the differences between the spoken English and the writing English. America has a diverse culture so that there are a lot of different expressions in the spoken language.
That’s so called “slang” in the spoken English. In our daily life, we tried hard to communicate with the native speakers in order to let ourselves speak English as well as them. Therefore, we will also learn a lot of slang as a popular way to speak with people. However, when people are writing their essays, it is not allowed to use these expressions appeared in our spoken English.
I think it is a good for the international students because it is easier for the foreigners to get rid of the informal words than it is for the native speakers. Our writing will be more formal than the American students. What’s more, the international students concentrate more on the grammar than the American students. So we should feel confident when we are writing the essays. Don’t afraid of writing because we are international students.
We have the advantages that the Americans don’t have.
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I agree with your opinion.
Not only the writing part, but also the speaking part.
We have more chance to practise speaking than people live in China or Korean.
My purpose is to learn the pure American English, not the confused English.
Thereby it is important to be confidence to speak with American.
I agree with you. being confident is most important thing. not only for studying english, but also on everything
Younghee Jeong
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