Non native, no uni degree English Teacher

Happy8888 wrote:

The amount of grammatical errors I read on this forum , is apauling !!

I hope you were being intentionally witty and did not unknowingly make the grammatical errors in your post.  The word "errors" is countable so you should write "number of errors." The term "amount of" is for uncountable nouns.  This is a rather subtle difference and illustrative of something I always tell my students; that native speakers make frequent grammatical errors. The unnecessary comma between the subject and the "is" verb is of course incorrect, as is the spelling of appalling.  I really hope you were pulling our collective legs.

No
I'm sorry , my English is really not good so I don't know that I made a errors
Now what I have to do to correct it
Hong nguyen

@THIV
You sir , ruined my fishing trip . I shall go hungry today !

have you ever teach children
Can you start to teach early December.Contact my number *** (Ms.Anh) if you can teach at a primary school.

Hello,

I have experience teaching in a refugee center in Malaysia for the past few months.

Please private message me with the details, I am very interested in the position.

Best Tom

Hey Tom , no your not , believe me ! I know this job , I've knocked it back twice

What's scary to me is who many "English teachers" posting here make such egregious (I'll wait while you look it up) mistakes when posting here. It's pretty darn scary.

Who ! about spelling mistakes ? John  my apologies if your dyslexic : )

yes, "you're" right. I typed too fast and was incorrect... at least I got all the letters, though in the wrong order ;-)

Ok, since you got all the letters correct  you'll get one point  : )

-JohnD- wrote:

What's scary to me is who many "English teachers" posting here make such egregious (I'll wait while you look it up) mistakes when posting here. It's pretty darn scary.

I realize that many posters are typing with their thumbs so I usually refrain from criticism of spelling or grammar.  However, if someone is criticizing the grammar of other posters, particularly those who are not native speakers, they certainly open themselves up to criticism.

hongnguyen79 wrote:

No
I'm sorry , my English is really not good so I don't know that I made a errors
Now what I have to do to correct it
Hong nguyen

Miss Hong:   I expect you may realize by now that this forum is not really a good place for improving your English.  One thing you might do is look for posts about various English speaking clubs in HCMC.  Since you seem to be recently married, based on your avatar, I am assuming that your intentions are serious and not simply based on finding a western mate.  Good luck to you in improving your speaking and writing skills.

THIGV wrote:

Happy8888 wrote:

The amount of grammatical errors I read on this forum , is apauling !!

I hope you were being intentionally witty and did not unknowingly make the grammatical errors in your post.  The word "errors" is countable so you should write "number of errors." The term "amount of" is for uncountable nouns.  This is a rather subtle difference and illustrative of something I always tell my students; that native speakers make frequent grammatical errors. The unnecessary comma between the subject and the "is" verb is of course incorrect, as is the spelling of appalling.  I really hope you were pulling our collective legs.

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Quantity of and quantities of is more formal.

Absolutely!

My point seems to have been lost in the mistyping of "how" as "who"...

I was commenting on how people who cannot spell properly and use both bad grammar and improper syntax call themselves teachers of English. I am not and never was a teacher of English--even though I am a native speaker and have a valid TESOL certificate.

I was NOT commenting on typing with feet or the occasional error.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks to Porridge for calling attention to my error. I laughed.

Keep it light bro , porridge  : )

colinoscapee wrote:

THIGV wrote:

Happy8888 wrote:

The amount of grammatical errors I read on this forum , is apauling !!

I hope you were being intentionally witty and did not unknowingly make the grammatical errors in your post.  The word "errors" is countable so you should write "number of errors." The term "amount of" is for uncountable nouns.  This is a rather subtle difference and illustrative of something I always tell my students; that native speakers make frequent grammatical errors. The unnecessary comma between the subject and the "is" verb is of course incorrect, as is the spelling of appalling.  I really hope you were pulling our collective legs.

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Quantity of and quantities of is more formal.

Here are a two citations:
http://grammarist.com/usage/amount-number/http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_c … number.htm
Neither one mentions formality.

I first thought that Happy8888 had included his errors intentionally to be humorous.  Later I found this post directed at a Vietnamese girl who was sincerely trying to answer an expat question:  https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=545719

Happy8888 wrote:

Anna , would you mind translating that to English for me

Read the thread and judge for yourself.

THIGV wrote:

colinoscapee wrote:

THIGV wrote:

I hope you were being intentionally witty and did not unknowingly make the grammatical errors in your post.  The word "errors" is countable so you should write "number of errors." The term "amount of" is for uncountable nouns.  This is a rather subtle difference and illustrative of something I always tell my students; that native speakers make frequent grammatical errors. The unnecessary comma between the subject and the "is" verb is of course incorrect, as is the spelling of appalling.  I really hope you were pulling our collective legs.

.

Quantity of and quantities of is more formal.

Here are a two citations:
http://grammarist.com/usage/amount-number/http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_c … number.htm
Neither one mentions formality.

I first thought that Happy8888 had included his errors intentionally to be humorous.  Later I found this post directed at a Vietnamese girl who was sincerely trying to answer an expat question:  https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=545719

Happy8888 wrote:

Anna , would you mind translating that to English for me

Read the thread and judge for yourself.

Maybe this will assist you, commonly used with an adjective.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar … uantity-of

colinoscapee wrote:

Maybe this will assist you, commonly used with an adjective.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar … uantity-of

I stand corrected.  Perhaps this is one of those US/UK differences.  The punctuation and spelling errors remain.

What I will not back down from is that none of us should be unnecessarily critical of others.  Go back to my earlier post where I stated that "native speakers make frequent grammatical errors."

THIGV wrote:

colinoscapee wrote:

Maybe this will assist you, commonly used with an adjective.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar … uantity-of

I stand corrected.  Perhaps this is one of those US/UK differences.  The punctuation and spelling errors remain.

What I will not back down from is that none of us should be unnecessarily critical of others.  Go back to my earlier post where I stated that "native speakers make frequent grammatical errors."

Yes agree on both accounts.We all make mistakes and I'm sure your grasp of English is much better than mine.

This is silly and a waste of space to worry about grammar and spelling on this exchange with people not expert in English but with several other native languages.On other exchanges I am the Grammar and spelling NAZI but it is not appropriate here.

Agree re your comments, We are in Vietnam and we must be respectful of the language barriers. Vietnamese making comments here I do not care if if it is grammatically correct or not, I am so proud they had the courage to comment in the first place, it's a step forward in communicating and that is a brave thing to do. So called English Teachers correcting those that have neither the career or experience really need to get a life, they really need to see the big picture that exists here in Vietnam. Actually I teach Pronunciation and Communication and I have to say my Uni age students often leave me for dead on grammar!..they are dedicated and very smart.

Hi Tom,

Please send your CV to Ms. Tien @ walkie.talkie.travel.learn@gmail.com for position of English trainer. Walkie-Talkie VN is a real life English training Center in Ho CHi Minh, Vietnam.

Cheers,