Re:Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
by ansimionescu on Thursday February 13, 2014 @05:06PM
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Agreed, writing posts/comments in English as a non-native speaker (with anxiety issues) is a real endeavour. Thankfully I've put so much time in it already that I can be reasonably certain that what I write is correct, and "flows" well, but I can definitely relate to your struggles.
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You seem to be doing well. I would not have known that you were not a native speaker if you had not said so.
Would you mind to share what is your process?
Re:Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
by ansimionescu on Thursday February 13, 2014 @08:57PM
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Just posting a lot on social media and news sites. I use Google Search, Google Translate, Mac's builtin dictionary, and Thesaurus.com (for synonyms/antonyms). Reading helps – you can "find" collections of ebooks for kindle/mobile quite easily (disclaimer: I don't support piracy, it's just that as a student I can't yet afford paying for 100% of what I consume).
I use google search a lot, when some sentence just doesn't sound right, I google it, if it has thousands or millions of results I accept it as right, if it has just some hundreds or less I rephrase it until I find a "popular" way of expressing what I want to say.