What I learned

First of all it has to be said that I was quite happy when I got back my homework from Hendrik. The homework task was to write a "Letter to Mr. Bower" in which I inform him about my present level in English and my experience with that language so far. I had a couple of mistakes in it but Hendrik‘s feedback was really helpful to me. So this is what he marked on the homework: I had a strong introduction, but I was a bit redundant in the first paragraph. I know that this happens to me very often, but I am going to work on that. I have to compare "rise" and "raise", because in the letter I wrote "she rose my interest for ..." which was wrong. (It should be "she raised my interest".) I did some punctuation mistakes as well, such as commas and using the wrong quotation marks (Let‘s check the region setting on my Mac again.) Last but not least a tense mistake. I wrote "I am looking up words on the ...", which means I am doing it right now. As I meant that I do it in general, it should have been "I look up words".

I really appreciated that Hendrik gave me a short personal note on my homework. He wrote that I largely use idiomatic expressions but he would like to see me use even more idioms and high-level vocab. Further he wrote that I seem to have a "feel" for natural English so he has every confidence that could pull it off. That made me really happy and gave me motivation to work on becoming better.