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The Language Dilemma for a Non-Native English Novice Writer
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Aug 8, 2018·1 min read

Write in the language you know best. The idioms will come naturally, but they won’t always translate seemlessly into your second language. A good translator should be able to render a phrase into its closest English version.

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