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The neighbors In Canada people are really friendly. I don't know about other countries but here in Korea is definitely not the case. But in Canada some people are really friendly so they *will say hi to you on the street or maybe you are in a store waiting in line for something and they *will start talking to you and this is very common. In particular in neighbors sometimes neighbors *will just come over and say "Oh, hey, I am in your neighborhood. I just wanted to introduce myself." It is sort of like the Korean tradition of bringing rice cake over when you moved in a new neighborhood and want to say "Hi, my family just moved in.", which it seems like people don't really do any more. But in canada it is very common for your neighbors to just want to be friends with you randomly. * If I use "would" in stead of "will" in the above writing, how does it sound to a native English speaker?
Jan 28, 2015 10:54 AM
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In Canada people are really friendly. I don't know about other countries but here in Korea it is definitely not the case. But in In Canada some people are really friendly so they will say hi to you on the street or maybe you are in a store waiting in line for something and they will start talking to you and this is very common. In particular, in neighborhoods, sometimes neighbors will just come over and say "Oh, hey, I am in your neighborhood. I just wanted to introduce myself." It is sort of like the Korean tradition of bringing rice cake over when you moved in a new neighborhood and they want to say "Hi, my family just moved in.", which it seems like people don't really do any more, but in Canada it is very common for your random neighbors to just want to be friends with you randomly



* If I use "would" in stead of "will" in the above writing, how does it sound to a native English speaker?

<em>Would sounds a bit more like there may be a condition - "they would want to be friends with you [if you weren't such a strange crazy person]", it doesn't need one and it isn't bad, but it feels like there's something hanging in the air unsaid.  Will sounds more normal.</em>

 

<em>1. You shouldn't start a sentence with But.  It's not uncommon in spoken English, but you shouldn't do it in writing (or in speech really, but you can get away with it in speech)</em>

 

<em>2. The last sentence sounded a bit odd ending with "randomly".  I know what you are getting at, but it sounded strange.  Putting it earlier in the sentence (as I corrected above) makes it sound more normal, but I don't think it's a necessary word - the randomness of it is implied throughtout the whole paragraph.</em>

January 28, 2015
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