What’s The Difference Between Speaking And Written English?
Posted on December 3rd, 2009
I’m studying English now. One thing confusing me is that I find speaking English is more informal than written one, and more simple sentences than complicated ones? Is that the case?
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4 Responses to “What’s The Difference Between Speaking And Written English?”
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Jelly Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:50 amYes, that is the case (though I am certain this applies to most any language).
English speakers are usually profoundly informal in verbal communications. Use of slang and the shortening of words is common practice. I suspect it is because most people like to speak quickly, and as a means of emotional bonding, rather than informational gain where precise speech would be further necessary. Honestly, even as a native English speaker, informal speech patterns confuse me as well. It is something that you will simply be better off learning through firsthand observations, not through any study program. -
neurodiv Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 amHey!
I studied english very hard before!
at that time, I thought the writing is the most important thing.
Because GRE test needs really good writing skill.
After I got high score in the test, I went to US for study, I feel like I am a idiot in first three months. Because I can not speak well, so I got problem to chat with people.
So writing is huge different with speaking.
If you use the way you write article to speak, people would think it is weird.
Speaking is always the most tough part in every language. -
gordanli Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 amYes, it is. It will be a lot easier to learn if you listen to people talking informally without scripts. Television and news scripts don’t reflect the way real people talk.
You might want to look up relaxed pronunciation- that’s contractions that people speak but almost never write down. These vary a lot depending on where you live. I live in upstate New York, so some of these I use every time, and others I’ve never heard of before. For example, I say ” whaddya,” “prolly,” and “oughta” more than I say “what do you,” “probably,” and “ought to” but no one writes these down. “Prolly” sometimes gets me strange looks, but I can’t stop saying it.http://www.davidtulga.com/contractions.h…
I think these are the most common ones because I’ve heard of most of them.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_pro… -
felliax Says:
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:41 pmYes, of course. It is the same with any language.
There is formal writing and informal speech.
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