Am I old?
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My teacher on Skype lesson said “You are OLD student!”
When I heard that, I thought what a rude teacher she was!
I asked her “Did you say about my age?”
She said ” No no! You’ve been learning English in our school for a long time.
Your learning time is 289 hours in total.”
It’s that long!
I don’t think my English improves for that long.
I can't speak English smoothly yet.
When I heard that, I thought what a rude teacher she was!
I asked her “Did you say about my age?”
She said ” No no! You’ve been learning English in our school for a long time.
Your learning time is 289 hours in total.”
It’s that long!
I don’t think my English improves for that long.
I can't speak English smoothly yet.
My teacher on Skype lesson said “You are an OLD student!”
"Old" is actually not a very clear word to use in this situation. The teacher should have said "longstanding" instead.
I asked her “Are you talking about my age?”
The verb "say" is not used with the preposition "about". "Say" can be used either with a direct object (which may be, but does not have to be, a direct quotation), or as "say that" followed by a description or paraphrase of the actual words said. Examples:
She said "You are an OLD student!"
She said something rude.
She said that I am an old student.
She said that I have been a student at their school for a long time.
"Talk" is often followed by the preposition "about"; "speak" can also be followed by the preposition "about", but it is more commonly followed by "to [person]".
She said “No, no!
Your word processor made a quotation mark facing the wrong way because you typed a blank space after it. Blank spaces come before left quotation marks and after right quotation marks.
I don’t think my English has improved enough for that long a time (studying).
I can't speak English smoothly yet. [Alternative: I still can't speak English fluently.]
tonyさんの例文で「"say"は前置詞と一緒に使わない」と言うことも理解できましたし、スペースとquotation markの関係も初めて知りました。
ありがとうございました。