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[Maybo]

I sometimes read Instagram posts to learn English and I’d like to know if the account I’m following use correct and natural English. If so, I’ll keep following this account.

Here are some posts of the account:

 

[Tarheel]

I sometimes read Instagram posts to learn English and I’d like to know if the account I’m following USES correct and natural English. If so, I’ll keep following this account.

Here are some posts of the account:
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There's a part of it that seems to be a typical ESL learner mistake. That is, Wang wasn't "telling" the guests. He was talking to the guests,

 

[Tarheel]

I would say the rain came through the roof because of a leak.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

He saw a butterfly that he thought was his grandmother.

How that became international news is a mystery.

 

[emsr2d2]

I have no idea what "banjir" means so the piece fails in the first sentence for me!

 

[Skrej]

I have no idea what "banjir" means so the piece fails in the first sentence for me!

Same for me, but apparently it's an Indonesian/Malaysian term for 'flood'.

No idea why the author would have decided to toss it in.

 

[Maybo]

Other than that, do you think it’s good source for learning English?

 

[Maybo]

No idea why the author would have decided to toss it in.

Maybe it’s because the news agency is from Malaysia.

 

[Tarheel]

Other than that, do you think it’s good source for learning English?

I assume you have read my comments.

I suppose that if you want to learn the kind of English they use in Malaysia then that's a good source. However, I have already pointed out a couple of things I disagree with.

"He believed his grandmother was a butterfly" means one thing. However, the context makes clear that he was talking about one specific butterfly.

 

[probus]

Worldofbuzz appears to be a website based on Indonesia and banjir the Indonesian word for flood.

 

[GoldfishLord]

I have no idea what "banjir" means so the piece fails in the first sentence for me!

What does "the piece fails" mean?

 

[emsr2d2]

What does "the piece fails" mean?

You asked if the piece was written using a good standard of English. For me, the piece failed that test in the first paragraph. There's another problem in that paragraph - we wouldn't use "raindrops fell" there. That sounds far too unimportant. We'd use "rain poured".

 

[Tarheel]

What does "the piece fails" mean?

After seeing the response to that (#12), what would you say it means?

 

[GoldfishLord]

I would say that it means to not pass a test.

 

[emsr2d2]

I would say that it means to not pass a test.

Exactly, as I said in post #12. It's not literally a test, but a metaphorical one. If I were testing the writer of that text on their "good command of English", especially a command of English that means learners should use their writing as an example, I would fail them.

 

[Tarheel]

What does "the piece fails" mean?

My answer to a question like that is always the same.