the meaning of “not so competitive”？？ thanks I sent an offer to my customer and got his reply" We see your prices are not so competitive as those we are used to buy in our local market. anyway please send us sample". I want to know "not so competitive" means our price have a little competitiveness or our price are higher than the local market without any competitiveness.

My experience last weekend Last weekend I wrote a notebook about my experiences that day. But the tragedy was it didn't be submitted successful ! Maybe last time it will be better to write on word document firstly. Today I want to write down it again. Because I very want to share my experience at last weekend. It was a warm day with blue sky and breeze. I and my friend went to a park beside a lake to fly kites. I like flying a kite very much. The feeling when I pulled the rope and the kite flying in the sky very far was very well . Just like I am flying by myself, my heart will follow it. When we took the bus back, I spoke with my friend all in English.(we could understood each other, even though our oral English was not native). I found a different things, when we talked in English I felt he was different with we spoke in Chinese. Just like somebody strange.

How to start learn Japanese by myself? starting from zero Hi, I'm from China, have learned English, zero basis of Japanese, but like to watch Japanese animations. And now I want to start learning Japanese( just for to simple conversations). Could you give me some advices about how to start? Thank you!

Why are there people in China who can't speak basic English? Why are there people in China who can't speak basic English? I answer this question. Could help me to modify it? Thank you. Historical reasons: many countries speak English because they were British colonies once. China wasn't. Chinese don't speak English in daily life. There are a lot of people have studied English, but they forget how to speak due to nonuse in life. China's education: Just as others said, as a course, English is tested by written exams, very few listening and speaking. This led to the results: students can read article, listen simple sentences but speaking fewer words. Chinese characters: Face-saving and lack of self-confidence. In Asia culture face-saving is important. It means not making others or oneself look bad. When talk with foreigners(especially who speak English very well)many people will worry about their pronunciation, grammar ...... So they decided to don't speak English, even if the basic English and they have listened for many times. To my point of view, these are the main reasons why some lecturers in the university can't speak basic English. Believe me, general they can read very professional literatures.

How can I write an english business email looks more positive, friendly, kindly? Every day I need to write emails to foreign people in English. Some of them are native English speakers and others not. I want to make my emails look more positive, friendly and kindly. Could you give me some advices? Like some kindly and native greetings or other modifiers. Books, articles or videos are also OK! I can learn by myself. Thank you!!!!

First Notebook - Decide to write To improve my English, today I decide to write small compositions and post them on italki in the next several months. Maybe it will be better to write without any translation tools for showing my real writing level . Hope I can make it. I read some articles on QUORA about the mistakes Chinese often make when writing and speaking. Some mistakes are very funny but I also find there are so much incorrect expressions I also used and didn't realize at all. I was surprised when I find the sentences are wrong. I still remember someone has said"forget the language you have mastered, don't try to translate one language to another. Just to study as a child, imitation, repeat, and master". I think he is right but isn't so difficult to forget something in my mind for more than 20 years.