Does discussing on mylot improve your English?

Thanks for the compliment on my post, I find it rather difficult to come up with good topics that haven't been started yet and this is one of the first that actually is a pretty good one if I may say so myself. I came up with it because I realized mylot has improved my English and I was curious about what other people had to say about this. Have a great day!

You are always welcome! Hope you will start some more interesting discusisons. Best of Luck!

Thank you so much for your very descriptive response :) I haven't just learned English from mylot, I had English in school to start out with and I fell in love with the language there. I must have been about 10 years of age at that time. Since then I have had english penpals, I had a best friend who's mom was english and I would talk english there, I had a bilingual toddler who I babyset and so on. I've also been active on boards for a couple of years now, but yet, mylot and other boards have helped me to perfect it along the way. I feel bad that not everyone is putting effort in writing better English on mylot. If you are here just to make money that's ok but at least put your back into it and try to make yourself clear. I try to stay away from topics that seem to be put up by people who are not trying. If I see people struggling that do try I allways try to help by typing a descriptive response and giving tips. Mylot also surely has improved my typing skills! I can now type blindly and pretty fast and can make about 15 good responses per hour, I like to make them long and descriptive so they actually add something. Otherwise it's just trying to reach a lot of responses per hour... Thanks and have a great day!

Thank you for the response and I am glad that it is comming along well for you. Your point about not responsing is the reason that I mentioned writting well to get responses. When someone obvously does not care to even try to learn the language should not be on an English site, the same as I would not go onto a German site as I do not want to learn the language, I do not care how much they might pay, but if I was to go there because of the income I would atleast put an effert into trying to learn the language. That is also the same as a telemarketer since the US exports alot of telemarketing jobs to foriegn countries. I think that there should be a screening for understandability with such jobs. Once when I called Charter Communications (a US company)I had to go through four service reps before I could understand someone, they tried to speak english but it was so broken that I could not understand it. I finally got someone I could understand, not completely understand but enough to take care of the issues at hand. It also upsets MEE when people write a little bit just to get that extra post in as to truely add something to the discussion is key in this type of community. Or another thing is all of the "What color is your hair?" type of discussions. There is a big difference between those that truely want to contribute and those looking for the quick penny. Once again thank you for the response and have a great day!!!

Thank you for your response, I guess it's a great way to keep your skills up to date even if you don't learn a lot of new words. After you finish school most of us don't speak or write a foreign language on a daily basis anymore. Mylot is one of the ways to keep active in another language, and that's why I love it. Have a great day!

I agree that it also helps seeing things from different point of fews and develope a good attitude. It also is helpfull as sometimes you get reactions of people that have no other perspective but their own and you have to try and convince them (in a friendly manner) that you are entitled to your own opinion and they are too and that this isn't a challenge to see how many people you can get convinced of your own perspective. Thanks for adding to the discussion!

That's true, I must admit I use abbreviations too but my posts aren't crowded with them and I make pretty long responses most of the time. I also will only use an abbreviation if I know what they mean; there are people out there that seem to copy them without even actually knowing what they are writing. But I do have to agree writing full sentences without abbreviating words works a lot faster if you want to learn a language well. Thanks for your point of view!

Good thing that you are trying to improve your English :) Being active on mylot can give you lots of ideas and things to think about, especially when you have topics on ethical problems, etc. Have a good day!

That's not a problem, we all make mistakes and that's only human. We can all learn from each other and make friends around the globe. It's nice to see certain people responding to a lot of your discussions, for example people that think alike or that you can have a good discussion with or who have the same interests. These are the people I would add to my friendlist. Thanks for adding to the discussion!

Thank you for your response, I think you are right about the ability to learn from mylot. There are a lot of up to date discussions about subjects in the news too. Sometimes there are discussions on topics from the news I wouldn't have seen otherwise, and people put links online to newspapers or newsarchives. Thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't thought about that yet :) Have a great day!

Its okay friend Have a nice friend

That's great, I'm happy to hear that mylot has helped improve your English. I guess for people from China it's even harder learning a foreign language as you have your own alfabet and own letters/signs which makes it even harder as you not only learn new words but a complete new way of writing. I admire you for being able to learn that, congrats!

It surely goes into my dictonary, especially because I do a children related studies and it's good to know these expressions if I ever get to work with foreign people ;) Thanks for responding!

So you have Dutch and english floating around in that mind. The money languages. Do you know of a town Ymuiden? :)

That's great! I see you put a lot of effort into typing a long and descriptive response, I have respect for that. Keep viewing good topics and you will get even better over time, keep enjoying and keep earning :) Have a great day!

I surely think it does, however, if you are talking about how it improves your language I would've suspected to see capitals and less messenger talk in your message... perhaps you hadn't thought that through before you posted ;) Thanks for adding to the discussion!