Wow! Thank you for writing this! I noticed you are in Hong Kong. Would these phrases be the same if you speak Cantonese? In other words, if I go to Hong Kong and use Cantonese to say these phrases exactly as they are, would they be understood?

Thanks!

老师， 谢谢你！

这对我来讲很实用，因为我一直觉得我都不太会用这种单词，而且这对我的表达能力影响蛮大的。

虽然我的口语还行，但是我还想更上一层楼。

Hi

Thank you very much for this helpful article.

I confess though I didn't understand what you mean by this:

"When speaking Chinese, we don’t really say long or simple sentences which may obscure meaning, and because people cannot clearly catch SVO in conversation"

Regards

Mike