8 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITTEN ENGLISH

Hey guys welcome to my channel in this video

I'm gonna give you eight tips on how to write emails and essays and letters

Like an American so if you're willing to improve your writing, please continue watching this video

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This number one be direct again American people are very relaxed when I was dealing a lot with British people

I noticed that their email would be like that but the whole point can be minimized to two or three sentences your goal is to

Talk about what you want to talk in two or three sentences in an email and again be relaxed

Relax

It doesn't matter if you ask how are you or are you doing people?

Don't really do that in emails and I was surprised with my investor is fly to me

They say hey marina when I first saw this I'm like really to use hey in a formal email

But it turns out that yes, Americans are so relaxed they even use hey informal emails. They use a lot of contractions

they use of a lot of idioms self be prepared to write like an American and

Another advice have a really clear call to action. This is called CTA. What are you asking for?

What is the purpose of this email make sure that the person gets it right away when you are writing in American English?

Make sure you're using active voice instead of using passive voice passive voice is when I say

Baybridge was built by an American government. This is a phrase

I would use if I'm doing a tour of San Francisco

But if I'm writing an email I would use active voice the American government

Instructed the builders to build the bay bridge for example tip number three and this can relate to your

Spoken English as well, please please. Please do not over explain. Hey, don't explain it

Just clarify if you feel that you're asking a question

don't give people answers just ask that question if you feel that you cannot explain a

phenomena without coming up with 50 examples then maybe your description of the phenomena is wrong so

as concise as you can

Tip number four when you're writing a formal email or an essay please refrain from writing there is of there are for example

There are a lot of students in San Francisco basically there are

Here is just a filler word because you don't have to use it students come to study in San Francisco

That's a much better written sentence refrain from using Paris and there are serious

Tip number five some more words that you should refrain from using and these words really very so and a lot

I'll give you a couple of examples

She's really beautiful

instead of she's gorgeous gorgeous

What sounds more American to you where she's gorgeous try to use words that are strong in their meaning instead of using really very?

So etc next tip is using

Strong verb and by strong verbs I mean a verb that can it comprises a verb and a noun

and I will give you a list below this video an

Example is to give definition

Is a lot of words, but you can just say to define again?

You're just

Comprising everything in just one word and this is called a strong verb so if you want to sound more American

And if you want your written speech to be really

Use this from the burbs if you can say that somebody was better in competition. You can just say he dominated the competition

Instead of saying he was better

Or if something became bigger you can say it expanded by the way guys if you're writing an essay right now

Or if you're raising money in America

Or if you if you're trying to get into American University and doing a lot of writing

I would really recommend fluent dot Express

This is an app that my team, and I develop fluent Express you go there

You upload your text in English and you get instant correction by native speakers?

Who would make sure that you sound as American as you can we're going to take care of all your grammar and?

Stylistic mistakes so that native speakers wouldn't tell the year from a foreign country

Tip number seven sometimes I look at my email

And I realize that every single sentence starts with I I am writing to ask you for this

I wanted to update you on my pro

I am writing to update you on my progress

I was wondering if you could I

Wanted to tell you and this is just III bow looks so weird so the solution that I came up with for myself is

Introducing bullet points here on my update, and I just go in bullets

I don't have to start every sentence or over and over again introduce bullet points and make sure you are

Double checking your email double-checking your essay and look for those smaller things like when you start every sentence which I?

Another very important aspect is how you finish your email in America

we usually put kind regards best regards to talk to you soon comma

marina McGill Co also another cool tip if you want to impress somebody for example if you're reaching out to a

university and you're asking for

Financially you want to mention something that would make them interested in you so for example what I've done

There was an article about me like making moves in tech in my email signature

I gave a link to that article and I wrote

In regards Marina McGill Co one of the 16 email powders making moves in tech you can do the same

I always link to my YouTube channels for example if you have any articles published that you published or have been published about use you

Can mention them in your signature?

If you're writing an informal email in America

Or if you're texting an American or maybe you follow American vloggers and Instagram

American people use a lot of contractions in their written English and now we're gonna learn the most popular ones I

DK. I don't know

Lol laughing out loud you can write lol with something's really funny

OMG. Oh my god. This is something is really exciting or really surprising. Oh

BRB be right back when you want somebody to wait for you for a moment

Wi d what are you doing if you want to make last-minute plans and asking your friends?

What is he doing right now, and if he is able to join you for something LMK. Let me know

bTW by the way

bTW of my name is TV a

ma

Asked me anything, and this is something when you're like doing a video answer your questions

I can tell you AMA in comments below, and I will answer your questions in the next video Q&A is not an acronym

But it's common to use n instead of aunt Q&A question and answers

And this is a part of you know a formal conference when you can ask a speaker a question FAQ

I know it sounds a little funny

But this is frequently asked questions the section of the website where you give answers to the commonly asked questions

TV and to be honest be honest s MH

Shaking my head. This is international of I'm not approving that s mhm

BFF best friends forever

GF

girlfriend

F

boyfriend

IMHO, I've seen a lot of those and recently found out the meaning in my humble opinion this means that in my opinion you don't

Have to consider that so in my humble opinion, okay, Kimi

IMHO and BD no big deal no problem. It's no big deal and BD

TL DR. I've seen a lot of those on Facebook so for example if you're writing a really long post and

Do you think that a lot of your followers don't have that much attention you want to give them like a short description?

Too long didn't read. This is the exact meaning of this four letters if you're writing a long text

You will give a couple of sentences at the beginning of it with a short description, and you would read TL DR

IRL in real life, why would you guys actually meet IRL?

xoxo kiss hug kiss hugs

BYOB, this is so American bring your own beer when you organize the body you can ask your friends to bring drinks because you would

Not be providing them

DIY do it yourself

No

DIY do it yourself DM. This is direct message you can DM me on Instagram direct message be

FYI

for your information

fYI

TVC to be confirmed for example if you do not know the place where you're meeting you can write TBC if the place is

TBC the places to be confirmed

aka

Also known as Marina McGill, Co aka lingua, Marina and the last one pretty common

ASAP people also say ASAP as soon as possible

Bye officer, and if you're writing an urgent email to somebody you can put in the subject

This is si ap it's very urgent

Thank you so much for watching this video up to the very end if you enjoyed it write down your most

Favorite acronym and please like this video if it was useful share it with your friends

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