Speaking English in an Elegant manner
Jan 05th 2012 01:19
I've been reading an interesting book about English which Japanese tend to speak. In one of examples in the book, Japanese like to ask "What is your job?", but we should make prefatory remarks like "Could I ask you a private question?" or "If you don't mind me asking,", and the book refer "What do you do for a living?" is better way to ask their occupation. When I was a child, my English teacher tought me "How Old are you?", but I've never used this question before, because I felt it was very rude. But the book tought me "Would it be rude to ask your age?" is discreetly way of asking.
When someone ask me whether I can speak English or not, the question would make me embarrassed, because What I want to say in English manage to get across to native speakers, but I'm blunt in my way of speaking. I want to study English which is considerate of other people.
When someone ask me whether I can speak English or not, the question would make me embarrassed, because What I want to say in English manage to get across to native speakers, but I'm blunt in my way of speaking. I want to study English which is considerate of other people.
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That's possible, your comment reminds me that some non-native speakers ask something straight away or "rude" way of speaking, but nobody was offended by their "bad manners", because we could understand they didn't mean it.
I've been reading an interesting book about English which Japanese people tend to speak read.
In one of the examples in the book, Japanese people like to ask, "What is your job?". But, we should ask prefatory questions like, "Could I ask you a private question?" or remarks like, "If you don't mind me asking.". After that, the book explains that "What do you do for a living?" is a better way to ask their occupation.
When I was a child, my English teacher taught me to say "How old are you?", but I've never used this question before, because I felt it was very rude.
But the book taught me, "Would it be rude to ask your age?" is discreet way of asking.
When someone asks me whether I can speak English or not, the question makes me embarrassed, because what I want to say in English, I manage to get across to native speakers, but I'm blunt in my way of speaking.
I want to study a way to speak English that is considerate of other people.
Probably most of the Japanese are too shy to speak in English, bacause of their poor language skill. So it may be worse to worry about what they said was rude or not. But I was deeply impressed by what some non-native Japanese speakers said, because their "beautiful" Japanese. So I want to study harder to be able to speak in an elegant manner.