He also says non-native speakers generally use too much emotional language and give too many details before getting to the main idea.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Other languages don't have that distinction and so those distinctions are very difficult for non-native English speakers to learn.

其他语言并没有这样的差别,所以非英语母语的说话者,很难发现这些差别

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