Language question

G

Guest

Guest
Hello! I really liked this site and I want to join but I'm afraid I've got a problem here. As you can notice, I'm not a native speaker and it's not like I've been learning English for my whole life (just three years, to be honest). I feel comfortable enough in daily conversations but I'm not sure my level would satisfy the "Try to use proper English" rule.

I have good role-playing experience in my mother tongue but I've grown tired of it and I want to get started in international RPGs. Due to said experience, I, however, don't want to begin from the simplest ones, which only have players who write one sentence per post. At the same time I don't want to bother you with my poor vocabulary, annoying grammar mistakes and limited speech overall, even though I would do my best to make my posts readable for everyone.

So what I want to ask is, are non-native speakers, whose English is far from perfect, allowed here? If so, how do they feel? I mean, won't my posts look way too bad compared to those of majority of players?

Thank you very much in advance.
 

Romi

Secretly a Bird
Administrator
Supporter
Jun 18, 2015
10,109
Gender
Female
Pronouns
She/Her
Posting Status
Irregularly
Based on your writing in this post, you'll honestly be fine. We're not looking for perfect english - just understandable english. If you ever get confused, you can always just ask!
 

Emy

Well-Known Member
Inactive
Supporter
Mar 29, 2014
5,389
Virginia, United States
Pronouns
She / Her / Hers
Posting Status
Irregularly
Hello!

We actually have a very sizable Filipino population currently on the site! One of our own mods is one, as well. Even if your native tongue isn't English, we would still very greatly like to have you because a lot of us, myself include, love foreign languages and even major in them.

If you sign up, it would be helpful to put it as a note in your profile that your English isn't too strong but I don't think you should have any issues!
 

Poppy

Well-Known Member
Inactive
Mar 18, 2015
3,930
Oh, yes, I'm Poptart-mod and English is my second language! We have a lot ESL people in general, and they're part of the community just like everybody else. Writing is a great way to develop another language. <3

By "try to use proper English", we just mean use past tense third person, proper capitalization and punctuation in RP posts. It doesn't look like that'll be a problem, though. Your English is excellent.
 
G

Guest

Guest
Sounds like I should give it a try!

Thank you all for your help. The community seems very nice and I'll be happy to join <3
 
Forgot your password?