a non-native learner of English

Jijia   Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:30 pm GMT
How to use a phrase to express this meaning?

It is as difficult as climb up this sky.

Thanks!
Guest   Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:49 pm GMT
E2L (or E3L, etc.) ??
Jijia   Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:56 pm GMT
Guest Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:49 pm GMT
E2L (or E3L, etc.) ??



What do you mean?
I come here for learning, not for undertaking your depreciation, even though I am a non-lative learner of English. Remember this please!
Sander   Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:17 pm GMT
Jijia,

This is what I'd use when I would want to replace the expression in this situation.

What you want is ''as difficult as climbing up this sky''
=
What you want is impossible. (You want the impossible)
Steve K   Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:04 am GMT
Jijia

Do not try to invent English phrases. Just copy the phrases you see in your listening and reading. Imitate them and use them. Read and listen a lot and you will improve.
Jijia   Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:51 am GMT
Thanks for your kind-hearted advice.
Maybe this is an unchangeable rule that we MUST not invent English phrases when we non-lative learner of English is learning English, otherwise, they are inventing English, right?

Yeah, I remember that a book which I read before said:
There is a popular view that the great scientific breakthroughs occur by inspiration, a little bit like someone looking down and saying ' Aha '.
But we are here for learning English and we have to comply with the rule established or created by those advanced learners; otherwise, I will be in an isolated position, right?

From a non-native learners of English.

Please correct me if anything is grammatically wrong.

Many thanks!
Killer   Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:12 am GMT
There are no such people called non-native learners, because every learner is supposed to be non-native.
Guest   Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:12 pm GMT
>>Maybe this is an unchangeable rule that we MUST not invent English phrases when we non-lative learner of English is learning English, otherwise, they are inventing English, right?<<

Maybe there is an unchangeable rule that we MUST NOT invent English phrases when we learners of English are learning English; otherwise, we are arbitrarily making up the language, right?

>>But we are here for learning English and we have to comply with the rule established or created by those advanced learners; otherwise, I will be in an isolated position, right?<<

But we are here for learning English and we have to comply with what has been established or created by good speakers of the language; otherwise, I will be in an isolated position, right?<<