Quote Originally Posted by Valda View Post
Heh, no quarrelsome tone whatsoever, relax there... I'm just surprised by your attitude to refuse help since we're all here to learn...having gotten to know you, I kinda expected better. So, I still think it's your loss, but maybe I did misunderstand...I don't know, it's a shame you take things so personally, it wasn't my intent to cause offense.
There's nothing personal about it, and no offense taken. It's a shame you make so many assumptions from my words and are so quick to judge. We are here to learn, and to learn correctly! That is why we should concentrate mostly on our own learning and not on trying to show others the errors of their ways unless we are qualified to do so. I am not refusing "help." I am simply saying that I don't think non-native speakers should be the ones to do the helping, unless they are very advanced and thoroughly knowledgeable about the language.

And anyway, the title of this thread is "let everyone have their own ways" of learning! if you learn from non-native speakers and that works for you, great! But I am going from my own experiences and I simply prefer not to! Why feel disappointed or surprised about that? Concentrate instead on your preferred method of learning and let me have mine!