Aug. 10, 2020
Speaking
When I talked with Maggie one day, I asked her, "I wonder If my speaking skills could match with one year old native child?", she said no. Is my speaking skill lower than a one years old native child ? She said that one year old children can just say "papa" or "mom". So I can match with a kid at age two or three? She still say no. May be my speaking skill is at a level of a four or five years old child? She said it was impossible to compare because native children could speak English fluently and quickly…
l also asked her why they started a conversation always with "hi, how was your day?" and it seemed ridiculous. She asked me what do we Chinese do to greet people. I said 你好，最近怎么样？and asked her how to say it in English. She said, "Hi, How was your day"…
Speaking
When I talspoked with Maggie one day, I asked her, "I wonder If my speaking skills could match with that of a one year old native child?”
", she said no.
Is my speaking skill lower than a one years old native child ?
She said that one year old children can just say "papa" or "mom".
So I can match with a kid at aged two or three?
She still sayid no.
May be my speaking skill is at athe level of a four or five years old child?
l also asked her why they always started a conversation always with "hi, how was your day?"
and it seemeds ridiculous.
She asked me what do we Chinese dosay to greet people.?
I said 你好，最近怎么样？and asked her how to say it in English.
She said, "Hi, How was your day"…
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When I talked with Maggie one day, I asketold her, "I wonder If my speaking skills could match withose of a one year old native child?."
", sShe said no.
Is my speaking skill lower than a one years old native child ?
She said that one year old children can just say "papa" or "mom".
So I can match with a kid at age two or three?
She still sayid no.
May be my speaking skill is at athe level of a four or five years old child?
She said it was impossible to compare because native children could speak English fluently and quickly….
l also asked her why they always started a conversation always with "hHi, how was your day?"
and iIt seemed ridiculous.
She asked me what do we Chinese dosay to greet people.
She said, "Hi, Hhow was your day?"…
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Pretty good. When we are using age as a noun we use "year" in the singular: "I am a 40 year old." We do use the plural though when it's used like an adjective: "I am 40 years old".
Also, I would usually only greet someone with "How was your day?" if it was someone I knew well and I specifically wanted to know how their day was, like when my wife gets home from work. Just greeting strangers politely I think it is more common (at least, where I am in the US) to just say "Hi, how are you?" or "Hi, how's it going?", or, very informally, "Hi, how you doing?". That one's not grammatically correct but is fine in casual conversation.
Aug. 10, 2020
When I talked with Maggie one day, I asketold her, "I wonder If my speaking skills could match withose of a one year old native child?."
Thank you for your corrections. Please tell me why you change 'asked' to 'told' and why you delete 'with'. I don't know the reason.
Aug. 10, 2020
When I talked with Maggie one day, I asketold her, "I wonder If my speaking skills could match withose of a one year old native child?."
Thanks for your correction. I don't know why you changed "asked" to "told" and why you deleted the "with", please tell me.
Aug. 10, 2020
She asked me what do we Chinese dosay to greet people.
Why it is not said ?
Aug. 10, 2020
谢谢你的帮助。它对我非常有用。
Aug. 10, 2020
Thank you for your corrections. Please tell me why you change 'asked' to 'told' and why you delete 'with'. I don't know the reason.
I changed "asked" to "told" because your "I wonder" sentence is a statement, not a question. If you were to say, "Could my speaking skills match those of a one year old native child?" that would be a question and you'd use "asked". In the first you are simply saying that you are doing the wondering. In the second, you are actually asking a question of someone else. Does that help?
Aug. 10, 2020
Thanks for your correction. I don't know why you changed "asked" to "told" and why you deleted the "with", please tell me.
I don't think there's a specific rule for why I deleted the "with". It's just that in English we generally immediately follow "match" with the object you're comparing. On the other hand, if the object *doesn't* immediately follow, you can use "with". You could have said "match up with those" and it would seem right.
Like I said, there's not a hard rule here, and I suspect it still might not make a lot of sense to you. It's probably one of those "native intuition" things that can be the hardest part of learning a second language: things that are arbitrary and don't have a particular reason, but just "feel right" to a native speaker. You sort of just have to learn those when you find them.
What you said was perfectly understandable, though, it just didn't feel quite right.
Aug. 10, 2020
Why it is not said ?
When you talk about something that you do in general, not at any particular time, it's normal to use the present tense. "What do you do on Saturdays?" "I play football with my friends." You would use the past tense only if you were talking about something that already happened. "What did you do on Saturday?" "I played football with my friends".
Here, Maggie isn't asking you about something you have already done, she is asking what you do in general, so you would use the present "say", not the past "said".
Aug. 10, 2020
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