My job grinds my gears sometimes

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My job grinds my gears sometimes

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I like swimming.
He likes swimming.
I don't like swimming.
He doesn't like swimming.

You don't think about it, but then you teach it to a room of kids and wonder why it has to be this way. He like swimming makes perfect sense - why add the fucking s? Then, when they finally get it...oh yeah in negative sentences we don't do that, we change don't to doesn't instead and leave the s off. Zing! Then when they finally wrap their muddled heads around that shit you still get:

He gos to school
He watchs TV

THEN THEN THEN when you finally FINALLY get all that shit laid out...

I might like swimming.
He might like swimming.

Arghhh. Teabag my ass. Fuck you English.

And this is one single little example from hundreds.
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I do not
He does not

That's why there is an S.

The most effective way to teach this sort of thing is by using a conjugation table, like you'd see in an English-speaking classroom teaching a Romance language. Yes, English breaks a lot of its own rules, and a lot of those rules don't make sense in the first place, but it does seem a lot more orderly once you start putting things into an ordered structure, and compare it to (for example) Spanish or Italian. A lot of the rules and anomalies are similar, particularly when it comes to verb tenses.
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Figuring out those things is what makes English fun for me.
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DaMadFiddler wrote:I do not
He does not

That's why there is an S.

The most effective way to teach this sort of thing is by using a conjugation table, like you'd see in an English-speaking classroom teaching a Romance language. Yes, English breaks a lot of its own rules, and a lot of those rules don't make sense in the first place, but it does seem a lot more orderly once you start putting things into an ordered structure, and compare it to (for example) Spanish or Italian. A lot of the rules and anomalies are similar, particularly when it comes to verb tenses.
Unfortunately conjugation tables don't work too well when you're 6 years old, and these kids have no experience with any European language. I know how to teach it to them, and I do teach it. I just ponder sometimes how much easier my job would be if language was more efficient. It's not helped by living in China. While the writing system is awful, grammar-wise, Chinese is an incredibly simple language.
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Just teach them Engrish and call it a day.
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CHING CHANG CHONG LOL
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For those who have been living under a rock...

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DanteJay wrote:For those who have been living under a rock...

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Interestingly, the whole border image is Japanese.
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BoneyCork wrote:
DanteJay wrote:For those who have been living under a rock...

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Interestingly, the whole border image is Japanese.
Same thing.
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I just googled it and grab the first one I saw. Didn't notice the Japanese Kanji. XD
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I know these things because I'm a weeaboo.
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