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[Toby]

Since I have been here and have been teaching children for three years, mu level of english has gone from low to exceptionally low.

Are there are any sites that teach basic structure, parts of speech, grammar etc.?

Example: I am currently learning Korean as well as teaching and we are talkikng about subject particles and object particles.

My english is so poor that the Korean teacher had to try and teach me about what those were and hasn't done a very good job of it thus far.

I need to find a site that has all of that kind of stuff on it as I should really know.

Thanks in advance.

[peppermint]

I've always sworn by Purdue University's Online Writing Lab

Great for explaining the fundamentals and lots of exercises for students.

[Toby]

[TommyPickles]

Toby, it's perfectly fine and acceptable for that to have happend to you. Having spent the last five years assisting exchange students, I've found that in general conversation these days I dumb down just about everything I said. This is coming from a guy who used to read the dictionary during reading time at high school (sad but true).

Fortunately, spending a year in sunny California and now hanging out with local friends in Australia has raised my diction back to normal status. It's really about challenging yourself, if you're not in such an environment or don't keep it up you will lose it.

Try reading some good books and keep it up. Himnae!~

Cheers
TommyPickles

[schwa]

Youre not gonna learn about subject & object particles on an english grammar website because english doesnt have them. Surely you can identify the subject & object in a sentence -- well, Korean just adds certain endings to identify them. You can call them particles, markers, suffixes, who cares -- theyre pretty simple to apply.

Re: keeping your level of articulation up, the suggestion above to read challenging stuff is good. Writing helps -- longer emails or anything with a native-speaking audience in mind. Should you find yourself in all-western company, let rip! Talk fast & throw in idioms, phrasal verbs, cultural references, & $10 words you learned in university. Really its all still there but you gotta exercise it.

I've been here years but I've never really had trouble flipping this switch one way or the other.

[Son Deureo!]

[kangnamdragon]

[Toby]