Vanessa Said:

how can I improve my writing? I am learning english as a foreing language?

We Answered:

You say one piece of advice.

Well, I advice you to write a lot and give it to someone or your tutor to check for you. Write about anything that interests you. (It's all practice and practice makes perfect)

Also, get a copy of English Essential Grammar. This is used in all Colleges in the UK and is perfect for improving your Grammar. It's a self study book that explains grammar, gives exercises and answers are at the back.

The website below is useful in supporting people with Writing and it also has books that can help you.

Best Wishes

Edith Said:

Learning english?

We Answered:

Are you from Pakistan? You can first buy, lonely planet's urdu-english phrasebook. You can start there. If you want, I have some materials I can send you via email for you to study by yourself or if you want I can help you online.

Cory Said:

what is the best way for learning writing in English?

We Answered:

Practice, practice, practice....but practice with insight, knowledge, and forethought. And it helps if you become your own best teacher. After all, you will spend more time with yourself than you will ever spend with a teacher.

Writing and reading go hand in hand and are as the two sides of a coin. You can't have one without the other. So if you want to write well, you need to read to see many examples of writing (both good and not so good). But before you start to read more, work out a check list of things to watch for so you can recognize good examples of writing.

Make a list of the various topics or categories involved in writing. This will give you a way to keep track of the kinds of mistakes you encounter. You can get an idea by looking at what teachers usually mark on papers they grade. Some of the basics would include spelling, proper word usage, and grammar. After that, start looking at variety in vocabulary (to avoid repetition of the same key words by using synonyms for example), variety sentence patterns (a mixture of simple, compound, complex, compound-complex), paragraph organization (based on location of topic sentence, logic, chronology, sequence, etc) as well as transitions between paragraphs. Then look at the overall paper involving a series of paragraphs (introduction, body, conclusion). And the ultimate subjective assessment involving things such as "was it clear", "did it appeal to you", "did it get your attention".

Armed with the check list, you can grade your own paper, tally up the "mistakes" and clean them up before you submit the final paper to a teacher for grading. When you get the paper back, analyze the comments from the teacher. Keep track of the "mistakes" and make a chart to see how many did you make and in what category. Over time, you want to see the number of the mistakes go down. But the check list helps identify the kind of mistakes you are making and where you need to improve.

There are some articles you may find useful in a free publication you can get on Basic Study Skills at http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/public/c…

The main article I am thinking of is on page 2.13 "Understanding Paragraphs For Effective Reading And Writing." But there are other articles in the paper that can be useful as well, such as "Effective Problem Solving" and "Numerical Outlining: An Effective Learning Tool ," and "
Effective Short Cuts To Reading A Chapter."

Hope this helps. Best wishes.

Gregory Said:

I'm learning English, my writing is right?

We Answered:

Both essays are easily understandable. I think you could use either. To help with grammar and word choices, I used the first. I have put my corrections/suggestions in CAPITOL LETTERS.

Hi Basima!!
How are you?
Japan is a very interesting country, isn't it?

Did you know that in the year of 1908 the Japanese immigrated for Brazil? [ "TO Brazil" instead of "for". You leave "for" somewhere, but go (or immigrate TO somewhere.)]
That happened on the 18th of June.

This (this or that?) [THAT would be correct because you just used THAT in the sentence above, however, I might actually say "THE IMMIGRATION was a consequence" since you are starting a new paragraph. Sometimes you want to restate your subject after a break.] was a consequence of the disintegration of the Japanese rural layers, that had been happening since the mid 19th century"
For the Japanese government, the emigration represented the possibility to alliviate this crisis.
But their travel was not easy at all, [This should be 2 sentences - BUT THEIR TRAVEL WAS NOT EASY AT ALL. IT LASTED...] it lasted 52 days, since they went by sea (in a ship called Kasato Maru).
Many of them were sent to work on coffees [COFFEE, not "Coffees"] plantations (that up to today, it is [ARE instead of "is" because "plantations" is plural. If you were talking about 1 plantation than "is" would be correct.] still largely cultivated in Brazil).
The years passed by, and today Brazil shelters(shelters or has?) [HAS] the biggest Japanese population outside Japan,

nearly 1,5 million of nikkeis (term used to call the Japanese and his descendants). [THEIR descendants instead of "his"]
Today there are nearly 62000 Japanese inhabitants living in Brazil.

That`s a lot of people!!!
I hope i`ve been helpful!!! :-) [the i in i've should be capital "I've"]

Have a nice day,
Yui."

I hope these corrections aren't too confusing, I wanted to tell you the reason behind them instead of just correcting things, but since I couldn't change the color of my font, it sort of all blends together.

Good luck!

Claude Said:

Can writing of everyday's diary in my native language affect my learning progress of English?

We Answered:

I don't think that writing in your own language, will make English learning any slower. When my friend's mother first moved to America, she still wrote in her own language (which was Arabic), and she learned English pretty quickly. She speaks English fine and learned at the same pace as others.

It may be good to write in a diary of your own (made of paper, with a pen to write with) to exercise your English writing skills. But I don't think you would need to do such. It's just a good idea.