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  • 工作学习 / English / Say "yes" rather than "yah" -- a simple to improve your English level -wjiang(wjiang); 2001-1-29 {1509} (#23230@0)
    本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Many people including Chinese learned to say "Yah" when they need to say "Yes".
    English as a secondary language speaker sometimes has such an impression that saying
    "yah" is a more native way than saying "yes". However, it is wrong.

    English, as any other language in the world, has levels and which are seperated
    by different wordings. A decent or educated wording is consituated by more formal
    gramma usage. "yah" is of course correct, but is only closer to labours' way of
    wording. "Yes" gives you a strong feeling of socially high standard. Preferably,
    if you can answer questions by "Yes, it is". "Yes, I am". "Yes, I do". "Yes, I will".,
    your listener will tend to think your English level is somewhat higher than what
    you used to be when you said "Yah".

    Another easy way for us to improve daily English without pain is to eliminate
    abbreviations. A decent writer or speaker will not use any abbreviation unless
    it is as obvious as "USA" or "IT". Some friends of this forum like to use
    "DIY", "ME" and "U". These are either confusion or unformal. What they should learn
    is in some high level media, even "TV" is written in television. Some thing happens
    in the resume writing. I often encounter a resume full of suspecious jargons. Who
    would hire you if your resume is full of "CID, HDPF, KOTTY"?

    To improve English is hard. To damage English is too easy. Pay attention to
    your daily usage, you can improve your English easily.

    Good Luck更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
    • good article, good suggestion. Say yes with you -sealand(sealand); 2001-1-31 (#23470@0)
    • It's very good. Let me give you some examples though. -sw989(Londoner); 2001-1-31 {413} (#23485@0)
      1. In job interview, during the formal session, use "yes", during the informal session, e.g., interview lunch, use "yeah". 2. On the job, in a meeting when your boss is discussing issues, use "yes" to show you are in problem solving status; working with your peers, use "yeah" so to keep them working with you. 3. Talking to your girlfriend, ... "yes"? "yeah"? ..., hum, vital to the relationship ...
    • Hi friend, your English is so good that I envy you very much! You know, girls are normally better than boys in language sense, I really want to know how you improve your English. I remember that... -sisi(丝路花雨); 2001-2-1 {71} (#23700@0)
      you said your wife speak perfect English, but you are great enough. *_*
      • How? It is hard to tell. But I have invested a lot in improving English. The payback is not bad. -wjiang(wjiang); 2001-2-1 (#23742@0)
    • it's very kind and smart of you,thank you very much! -jiajun6666(jiajun6666); 2001-2-1 (#23703@0)
    • Canadians say yup, yeah is more used by Americans. -guest:; 2001-2-3 (#24134@0)
      • yeah and yup are used about the same across the border. "yup" is used more when you give out a positive answer. "yeah" is used more like okay. -sw989(Londoner); 2001-2-3 (#24178@0)
        • you guys have done so much investigation, God bless diligent birds! :-) -sealand(sealand); 2001-2-5 (#24482@0)
    • quite right -xczheng(Colin); 2001-2-5 (#24484@0)
    • I asked my colleague, and he said yes. We need this kind of article to make our life better, not complaints. -guest:guest; 2001-2-6 (#24800@0)
    • Good suggestion ,except one misused word --"unformal"; it should be "informal". -xwendy(枝枝); 2001-2-6 (#24810@0)
      • Hi, Nice to have your feedback. -wjiang(wjiang); 2001-2-6 (#24816@0)
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