my thoughts

I have a different philosophy about "a" "an" "the". I believe they are part of the language that can truely give away your "accent", not the size of your vocabulary or usage of GRE words, but small words like "a, an and the" and other small words like at, from, on. It's not an obsession. It's a strive to reduce my "accent". 

have to go for now. I need more explanation for understandingly and understandably. What did you mean in this context?

The man smiled back, pointing his finger to the TV and said, “He (Obama) is very smart. I like him.” I never knew how to follow a conversion and keep it alive.  So, I smiled understandably and remained silent.

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• I am not saying they not important -hammerheadshark- ♀ (963 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 05:54:51

• As this is for discussion, we can agree to disagree then? -非文学青年- ♀ (477 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 07:31:00

• 怎么了？你们两位都是我最敬重的大牛人之二不想看见你们任何一位生气。 -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 07:48:39

• 谢谢。没有生气，小蔓，学术讨论，呵呵。 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 07:56:06

• I am not offended, nor am I angry. -hammerheadshark- ♀ (4234 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 15:09:35

• what I meant by "看错人了” was -非文学青年- ♀ (2088 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 16:03:20

• Tell that native speaker -hammerheadshark- ♀ (2448 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 16:52:38

• let's talk about this offline or discuss it in the future. -非文学青年- ♀ (718 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 17:36:42