musingbird
05-19-2004, 04:01 AM
I am an English learner and English is a foreign language to me.
Nowadays I have been trying to brush up writing and have done a little writing.
I know this is a forum where many native speakers gather so I take the liberty of pasting some paragraphs of what i did here and wonder whether you would give me some advice on the piece of writing below.
Thanks a lot.
My writing:
There are not many days to go this year. I have been pondering how to express my good wishes to you, to the New Year and me myself. To find proper words for such a purpose, you can surely understand, is no easy job.
I have pondered a lot, and none unrelated to you.
You like narcissuses but didn¡¯t luck into any this year, which is to be ascribed to my not offering any help. I believe you will yearn for the narcissus¡¯s pure fragrance and immaculate whiteness all the more. I know you harbor other yearnings, and when the yearnings intensify, the mysterious world will unfold for you.
You live on a meager income, but never wear a woebegone expression (I have often noticed your innocent smiles). I know you once picked an exquisite souvenir medal you wore on the chest and gave it, as a gift, to an old man, who couldn¡¯t make a tour to far-off places. And you asked in delight, ¡°Is it beautiful?¡± In my eyes, you were affluent, because instead of soliciting, you were bestowing.
Nowadays I have been trying to brush up writing and have done a little writing.
I know this is a forum where many native speakers gather so I take the liberty of pasting some paragraphs of what i did here and wonder whether you would give me some advice on the piece of writing below.
Thanks a lot.
My writing:
There are not many days to go this year. I have been pondering how to express my good wishes to you, to the New Year and me myself. To find proper words for such a purpose, you can surely understand, is no easy job.
I have pondered a lot, and none unrelated to you.
You like narcissuses but didn¡¯t luck into any this year, which is to be ascribed to my not offering any help. I believe you will yearn for the narcissus¡¯s pure fragrance and immaculate whiteness all the more. I know you harbor other yearnings, and when the yearnings intensify, the mysterious world will unfold for you.
You live on a meager income, but never wear a woebegone expression (I have often noticed your innocent smiles). I know you once picked an exquisite souvenir medal you wore on the chest and gave it, as a gift, to an old man, who couldn¡¯t make a tour to far-off places. And you asked in delight, ¡°Is it beautiful?¡± In my eyes, you were affluent, because instead of soliciting, you were bestowing.