Fun and help!

ANITA0101 · Post by **ANITA0101** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:31 pm

To me it is a great help, to u it can be a fun:)

Being a second language user of English, sometimes, i am getting confused about when and where to put "the" in my sentences.

Could u please give out examples of using "the" for me, at any time u get one of it. It will be a great help for me to correctly master the using method of "THE", CHEERS! :-3

Let's see how good ur English is!:wah:

Dizz · Post by **Dizz** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:47 pm

The is used to refer to a specific noun. The dog (means the one in front of you or that you are talking about) A dog (Any dog).

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:54 pm

Heck Anita - I get to typing so fast and I spell the wrong.....(teh) all THE time...Hee hee Good Luck - I use Sign Language as my second language that way I can't miss spell anything Hee hee

ANITA0101 · Post by **ANITA0101** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:42 pm

Is there any special occasion that u made a mistake of "The"?

I think "The" is not so often used in a sentence.

But somethimes i still confused.:-5

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:00 am

What is your native language Anita and where do you live ?Your doing well by the way, its cute.

ANITA0101 · Post by **ANITA0101** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:52 am

My mother language is Chinese,of course, i live in a small town in China.

Tell u something really funny. I met an American on the travel back home. He asked where i am from, i told him that i came from a middle size city called Yueyang in Hunan Province. We have population of 2,000,000 and then i kept saying "it's small, isn't it". He stared at me saying" a small town with 2000,000 people!R u joking!""no, i am not." Then i said" well it is not so small."

In Beijing we have population of 20,000,000, that's where we call big city! He said he lives in a town with 600.What a joke, what a huge contrast.

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:52 am

ANITA0101 wrote: My mother language is Chinese,of course, i live in a small town in China.

Tell u something really funny. I met an American on the travel back home. He asked where i am from, i told him that i came from a middle size city called Yueyang in Hunan Province. We have population of 2,000,000 and then i kept saying "it's small, isn't it". He stared at me saying" a small town with 2000,000 people!R u joking!""no, i am not." Then i said" well it is not so small."

In Beijing we have population of 20,000,000, that's where we call big city! He said he lives in a town with 600.What a joke, what a huge contrast.

Well I think you are doing remarkably well with your english. Welcome to FG. It is harder to write it than speak it. What you typed above is very well done.

As for the word THE just drop it in anywhere ahahahaha ok never mind that. As mentioned above The is used to note a specific noun,

The day we rode to The market we bought The book.

That sentence states on a specific day you rode to a specific market for a specific book.

A day we rode to a market we bought a book.

Any day any market any book.

Feel free to ask for help any time.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:14 am

Articles (a, an, the, etc.) are not used in Japanese (my wife's native language). Is it the same in Chinese?

We've found that the problem is not not using it, it's using it too much! Very tricky, those articles.

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:30 am

Must say I am impressed with your English Anita, I know how difficult learning a second language can be, so well done for learning what you have so far.

ANITA0101 · Post by **ANITA0101** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:32 am

yes,we don't have Articles(a, an, the etc) in Chinese. Japanese got a lot influence from Chinese, many letters and words and types are the same. I always think of suing them for copyright fee or other intellectual rights charges.:wah:

Moreover we don't have tense. Is that interesting!:-6

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:33 am

chrisb84uk wrote: Must say I am impressed with your English Anita, I know how difficult learning a second language can be, so well done for learning what you have so far.

Are you Bilingual too Chris?

Gosh I am considering taking Russian come fall.

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:47 am

Well I studied German and French for a couple of years, but can't say that I'm any good. Learning Russian huh, my friend tried to learn it and gave up after a month :wah:, so good luck to you Minks if u do take it up

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:49 am

chrisb84uk wrote: Well I studied German and French for a couple of years, but can't say that I'm any good. Learning Russian huh, my friend tried to learn it and gave up after a month :wah:, so good luck to you Minks if u do take it up

Well I work with 6 of them I am sure they would keep me going ahahahaha

either that or Persian HaH! or not.

I wish I had learned French but hey in grade 9 when it is mandatory in school as a canadian what do I know about my future huh hehehehe

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:58 am

Ah the dreaded language lessons back at school, such bad memories!

The worst times are when u are trying to get into a conversation in that language with someone, and yet just can't seem to get the sentence right. I once was trying to have a discussion with my french teacher about greeting introductions and accidently went and said something that i shouldn't of :-1

It was only until she pointed out to me that I had just asked her out on a date by mistake that I realised that French was not for me haha. Since then I've stuck to English

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:04 am

chrisb84uk wrote: Ah the dreaded language lessons back at school, such bad memories!

The worst times are when u are trying to get into a conversation in that language with someone, and yet just can't seem to get the sentence right. I once was trying to have a discussion with my french teacher about greeting introductions and accidently went and said something that i shouldn't of :-1

It was only until she pointed out to me that I had just asked her out on a date by mistake that I realised that French was not for me haha. Since then I've stuck to English

Oiy Very Red Face Moment hehehe well I guess it is best to stick with what one knows best hehehehe.

I help the guys out here a lot with their english, so I think they would be most helpful with Russian, or... either that lead me astray. Gasp I better keep it a secret hehehehe

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:09 am

Haha yeah I can imagine the kinds of path that they could lead you down. Well good luck with it if u do decide to take it up.

ANITA0101 · Post by **ANITA0101** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:47 pm

Talking about Russian, in the generation of my parents,China had very good relationship with Soviet. So they had dreaded Russian language educations during their middle school and college period, which are useless nowadays for them.

When i was studying in my middle school, i was very good at English during junior grades. Before i entered into university, my English classes were full of funky sentences, irksome grammars, which totally blowed my interests in English away.

The English teacher in my university is a man who speak English with strong Changsha(a city in China) accent. I so dislike his course and skip classes all the time. Well u can see, i stopped learning English for almost 4 years because i refused to learn those monotonous sentences and grammars. I want to learn language only for aims to manage it well and communicate with native speakers. I have my own way learning English-- talk,read,listenning,write,thinking etc.

All in all, learning to communicate not for passing tests. My English is getting better these days with ur helps and encouragements.

Thank u very much!:)

lilahnee · Post by **lilahnee** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:49 am

"The" is an article, one of three in the English language (a and an are the other two) They precede a noun (an adjective or adverb may come between the "the" and the noun.

lilahnee

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:54 pm

ANITA0101 wrote: Talking about Russian, in the generation of my parents,China had very good relationship with Soviet. So they had dreaded Russian language educations during their middle school and college period, which are useless nowadays for them.

When i was studying in my middle school, i was very good at English during junior grades. Before i entered into university, my English classes were full of funky sentences, irksome grammars, which totally blowed my interests in English away.

The English teacher in my university is a man who speak English with strong Changsha(a city in China) accent. I so dislike his course and skip classes all the time. Well u can see, i stopped learning English for almost 4 years because i refused to learn those monotonous sentences and grammars. I want to learn language only for aims to manage it well and communicate with native speakers. I have my own way learning English-- talk,read,listenning,write,thinking etc.

All in all, learning to communicate not for passing tests. My English is getting better these days with ur helps and encouragements.

Thank u very much!:)

ANITA, your english composition is excellent, you might be able to give lessons to some of the members here. Oh yeah, welcome to FG, enjoy yourself.

Kick "THE" stuffing out of this place!!!

ANITA0101 · Post by **ANITA0101** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:20 am

It had been a long time that i didn't say something in this forum, deadly busy these days and stressful life i was in. When i got a rest and turned on TV today, a national organized English competition appealed to me. Seeing those boys and girls about 10 years old or so, maybe even below 10 years old, which makes me feel how great they are to already have ability to effectively manage a second language.When i was 10 years old, i don't even know A, B, C. This made me quite ashamed. Then i log in this website and write something down to make myself memorize this feeling and encourage myself to work harder and harder.:-5

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:17 am

Yaaaaaay Anita!!

ANITA0101 · Post by **ANITA0101** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:30 am

Accountable: That's cute! Thank you very much!