Studying for Tokyo University

[Moniksama]

Originally Posted by nesne

I don´t want to get off topic or offend, but something about both these threads is bothering me. There is absolutely no way the OP is a native English speaker. The mistakes the OP makes are similar my current and former students' mistakes (native Spanish and Portuguese speakers) and my ex-roommate (native French speaker). There is no amount of "fast typing" that would make someone consistently make these mistakes.

I completely understand your position and I shall think the same if I were you. I always seek to speak and write the languages that I know the most perfect I can (including my native language). So right now I do not care if I do not do it that way in a forum. Since I have corrected them it is obvious that I know the correct usage of words; if I did not know the correct usage I would not have corrected them. When I had to write reports I typed really slow; so I could not stand that it took me so long to write a report. So I started to try to type really fast, without caring if I missed some letters, commas...
I did it with english, french, and spanish. As a teacher do you think that this can affect me in my reports? Do you think I shall get used to this to the extent that when I finish my reports I shall forget to check them?

If you can answer me, I shall really appreciate it.

[nesne]

I teach exclusively to business students (as a studied business in university) whose biggest concerns are being able to write clear and concise emails and being able understand and be understood in meetings. I feel I am not qualified to answer your question as to how your mistakes may affect you in an academic setting. I am only commenting on the fact that you claimed to be a native English speaker yet make small consistent mistakes that native English speakers do not consistently make. We make other mistakes. It is not about commas and periods (as I myself am hopeless with these) but things such as the usage of prepositions where one isn't used in English but would with the equivalent usage in the Latin Languages, non-native phrasing ect. There is nothing wrong with this and your mistakes are very small, I have known many smart people who have gone on to good careers in English speaking countries who write like you, but I have never met a native speaker who writes this way.