{"id":1204,"date":"2018-05-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollytreeenglish.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2018-05-16T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T02:30:20","slug":"my-english-is-too-poor-2-truths-to-destroy-grammar-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollytreeenglish.com\/home\/my-english-is-too-poor-2-truths-to-destroy-grammar-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy English is too poor,\u201d 2 truths to destroy grammar shame.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Don\u2019t be sorry.<\/h1>\n<p>Do you sometimes say this? \u2018Sorry for my poor English.\u201d Why do you say it? Is it because you want to hide your English mistakes? This is shame.<\/p>\n<h1><span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp5KooK-jq&#038;text=2%20truths%20for%20destroying%20your%20grammar%20shame.&#038;via=hollytreeeng&#038;related=hollytreeeng' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2 truths for destroying your grammar shame. <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp5KooK-jq&#038;text=2%20truths%20for%20destroying%20your%20grammar%20shame.&#038;via=hollytreeeng&#038;related=hollytreeeng' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Shame is a painful thing and you must destroy it. But how do you destroy shame? With truth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollytreeenglish.com\/the-one-thing-that-kills-shame-even-if-you-make-many-grammar-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth kills shame.<\/a> But it is not always simple to kill shame. That is because shame does not like to stay dead.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=alzNMUnY2Kc<\/p>\n<h1>Take-Aways<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEvery beginning is weak (Irish proverb).\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You are stronger in your English grammar now than you were before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Your Turn<\/h1>\n<p>Please comment and tell me some ways that you are stronger in your English than before. 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