Valerie

My name is Mr De Smet, and first name Paul-Louis.
I have worked for many years in a textile factory, which produced cloth for jeans wear. And since jeans production has been relocated towards less cost effective countries, I had to choose another occupation and I became a interior-worker or cleaner, which is mainly room service like keeping things clean and tidy (all about five things; cleaning, tidiness, keeping order, to set and hold new standards and safety).
So long.

Christina Rossetti, September

It takes a lot of courage for us non-native English speakers to write English in this blog.

So I think everyone who writes here has tried his/her best to overcome the language barrier which is not easy.

Peter is absolutely right about Jeff providing us a chance to improve our English even faster.

Just don’t worry too much, keep writing, follow your heart, you will get there.

I listen to Peter’s remark that no one will judge you here so I write and write everyday, thinking no one will judge me.

One day, if you find a judgement land on your message, don’t worry, just ignore it, don’t let it interfere with your aim which is to improve your English.  Just continue to keep writing and you will get there.

Best regards

Betty

I m just trying.
I don’t know about the first letter deal, but what I do know is that the master mind behind all these ) is the one and only Jeff. He has created an amicable environment in which we pour out our thoughts knowing that our dear profossers and peers never pass judgment on us,English wise

I personally thing setting up this blog has been a smart move on Jeff part. It has provided us the oportunity to challeng our writing abilities ,and at the same time ,learn from one another.
We are all here following one purpose-that is learning ,learning and learning. If you know what I mean

There is another advantage to it , it gives us the chance to meet our cyber classmates. It gives me a sense of familiarity with the program at large.

Yours truly ,

The nincompoop )

I enjoy reading your messages because you represents young Russia netizens who study English as a second language.

It is only by reading messages like yours then we know some Russians have a very high standard of English.

Just one thing that I wanted to say here today is, 

According to the wikipedia,

 ”Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2007″. U.S. Census American Community Survey. 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-23

Russians (self-reported) made up of 1% of the Americans population.

1% is not very significant, but this 1% of Americans would want to be accepted as Americans.

There is nothing wrong being unintelligent, but most people do not want to be told that they are unintelligent, I don’t know why.

I did not believe a single word that Jeff said about the connection between a person’s initial and the job he/she choose.  I only consider it as a tool to make learning a language more interesting.

The fact that you finally spend some of your valuable time on writing something in English has made Jeff happy.  He wants to know that his students are capable of writing good English.

Please, Val, if you have time, check out the web page of

“THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER”

in which it tells us that:

The New York State Senate adopted a legislative resolution to proclaim April 2012 as Russian-American History Month in New York state.

Nice talking to you.

Best regards

Betty

I just wanted to say that the speech of Mr. Clinton yesterday at the DNC was the best I have heard so far between the RNC and DNC.

He is good, really my hat goes off.

Are you kidding! you are good. It’s been a pleasure reading you.

The only thing I can say to you is simply keep writing here the more the better.

I would like to know wich country are you from?

Your English is good, I was able to understand everything you wrote at first reading.
Good job! keep posting from your beautiful Country.

Greetings from Italy.

Daniele.