My English
I can say that life is good to me. But the thing is I found myself surrounding by hard people and it makes the life harder to me.I got complained by one of my Indonesian new manager here that my written English is poor. It's okay for me since I'm not shame. English is not my native language. At least I have never been complained by my foreign clients and I'm the one at office who handle the foreign clients and never have communication problem.
The matters is that she talked in front of my staffs with a high tone and seems like my written all is a mistake. It's annoying to me.
I'm not a person who made from stone. I'm opened for good and improving advices. The matters is how you tell the advice to people. The way, not to make people down and lose face.
I heard people complaining and complaining here and I just keep quiet and close my ears but today I got my complaining. Sounds like a good way to begin a new day in an early morning.
There was a phone call to my private cellphone just now from one of my clients. Another Singaporean company asked me to look for someone who want to work in Medan but can speak English like me.
Now I'm raising my shoulder and take a deep breath remember about the words my new manager told me this early morning. At least someone appreciate my English. I personally never think it's poor.
Summer
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PS : I guess she also didn't know how to advice about the written English. If not, she could give her opinion about the better one.
Do not worry, some peoples are nonsense and crazy due to their nature and Family Back ground even they do not know some times how to talk with peoples and how to respect others. Go ahead and try to find out your lack. Time will come to your hand and you will be WIN!
Take care Summer!
Well, I will keep patience until I found a new better job. After that I can say "Bye".
Nice to see you here because I always think that your comments make sense. {smile}
I tried my best to wrote what in my mind and tried to figure something out and far from misstatement. But anyway, she wanted more than that. A basic one and she asked me to look at Google to look for another Companies' figure. It won't same, trust me, because one company's situation is different with another. I wonder why she didn't want to give any advice about the better one?
How are you, dear?
Well, I can say the things we can do to improve our English is reading more English book (notice the grammar), listening to TV or DVD and tried not to see the translation text, and of course talk to native person. I still work on it and do blogging to improve my courage in English, both writing and talking {smile}
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i think your English is fine no problem understanding you at all...
if your trying to learn English you can always voice chat on skype no video.If that helps but i think your English is fine..
But today, you have great assistance from the programs (Microsoft, Linux or others), that you may use in that most of them have an auto correct feature, you can activate, within the program - so that your written content is automatically corrected for spelling, punctuation and grammar. I'm sure if you look on the net you'll find more great tutorials. Good luck!
I think a manager has nothing against your English, I think she appreciates the fact you are fluent, I think she expects more formal writing style, formal business expressions, passive voice, grammar and layout. All, which is possible to learn in couple of weeks, because you can find a lot of inputs from the Internet websites which are available and help all non- natives and as well native speakers to improve " office formal writing".
What I am a bit surprised is her a bit unprofessional approach to you. To complaint in front of other co-workers about your writing skills is unprofessional, she is not your tutor and you are not a pupil ( even at educational institutions we do not do so!)
If she had something, she could ask you to follow her to he roffice and she could tell you that face to face.
Summer, all the best and enjoy your time and your working day. Improvement is a part of our lives and I am sure, you love being better and better
That manager maybe he just try find something wrong to ruine your day. All he got was that, don't put that to your soul just ignor him and you focus of your work and do a good one.
Don't lose heart. I know how some managers can be. She is just trying to assert her new-found authority and the only way she knows how to do it is try to make someone else feel bad. No people skills at all.
@ Elmorya : Hi, El, and thanks for Kudos me!
Uh, you'r kidding me! 11 official languages! Wow! Do you know all, El?
Well, the thing happened this morning is not vocabulary mistaken. It's the sentences she wanted me to make. More official, she said, while mine was taken by her as not official. I wonder since I have use official grammar.
Yes, you got my point. She can told me so directly. I will more appreciate it.
Thank you for being so understanding!
@ Lazly : Hi, dear! You are so sweet. Your comment makes me smile. {smile} I don't think that mine is so good but definitely it's not poor. hehe
What I notice in your comments, your written is good! With lots of reading English books I think it will improve it to be better. I do it also. So, fighting!
There are two aspects to this. First, was your boss correct in the essence of what she said? As I mentioned above, that is possibly true. Second, was she correct in the manner she said it? Absolutely not. The irony is that a few grammatical errors will be understood and can be corrected. A personality like hers cannot.
I would suggest that when you correspond with native English speakers on here you ask them to be brutal with you, and correct any mistakes you make. Thats the only way to learn and put the mistakes to bed.
Well, if that's the matter than maybe I have to smile this along day. haha. Btw, it's already riot here regarding to the increase of fuel price. I hope you are safe there and okay. Take care!
@ Rubicon76 : Hello! {smile}
Oh, your London boss English is terrible? Wow, it's hard to believe! He might be a shy person.
Yes, I wonder why managers seems like having same managing style. An annoying one. Thanks for support me {smile}
haha. yes, I know some of the writing might be not too professional. I'm okay with the correction because that is the reports I do day by day. So now correction will actually the same as tomorrow.
I can learn from notice and read so I might be better later. {smile} Just don't tell me in brutal way