in? at?
Apr 08th 2009 10:21
Please tell me if my English is wrong.
I am a nurse.
私は看護師です。
I am working at the digestive organs ward in K municipal hospital.
私はK市民病院の消化器病棟で働いています。
I have been working for 13 years at the hospital.
私は13年間病院で働いています。
I am a nurse.
私は看護師です。
I am working at the digestive organs ward in K municipal hospital.
私はK市民病院の消化器病棟で働いています。
I have been working for 13 years at the hospital.
私は13年間病院で働いています。
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Please tell me if my English is wrong.['Please tell me if my English is incorrect' is a little better.]
I am working work at the digestive organs ward in K civilian hospital. ['at' is okay, or you can also use 'in.' Perhaps 'work in the ward' and 'work at the hospital' is correct.]
I have been working at the hospital for 13 years .
Both "...the digestive organs ward in K civilian hospital." and "...the digestive organs ward at K civilian hospital." both sound right to me. Using "at" probably sounds about 10% better (it's close.)
If I were a Japanese learning English, I'd put a lot of effort into understanding and memorizing whatever rules there are for the use of prepositions. I haven't looked into it much myself, but I suspect there aren't many rules :-( Things just "are". I could be wrong, though.
Can you explain why "I am working at..." is wrong? I bet you say and write that (and its equivalents) all the time.
Thank you for correcting it.
GQube3
Thank you for commenting.
I am glad.
mburr
I'm very encouraged, thank you.
The preposition is important and difficult. I will work hard the study of English in the future.
I've been extra sensitive lately to English speakers who go out of their way to over-correct English that otherwise sounds perfectly natural. This is not such a case, though. A lot of people seem to think that it's important for non-native speakers of English to speak like a text book (an OLD text book) which really just makes things more confusing for them.
mburr, yep, a tricky business this, it's hard sometimes to know when to correct and let something be, I always worry I complicate things and find myself using 'maybe' or 'perhaps I would say..' 'that's correct but....' especially when there is 10 different correct ways to say something. Oh well, we can only try I guess :) Stu.
[Sorry to take up space Sakuri!]