My Application Form is good enough to make me pass the test to join IDS.

[Note: this debate is partially educational for acetraveler and, to help him in his endeavors, I will provide useful comments to his debate in brackets such as these.] Dear Acetraveler, Below please find my response to your recently received letter: "Mr. president, You should reconsider your decision because my strength is over my weakness for joining IDS." I accept this premise, of course. If you can show that your strengths outweigh your weaknesses or your potential the costs in taking you on, then IDS could not reasonably reject you. (1) Fast reading – you have yet to explain how this will improve your speaking debate skills. Furthermore, no debate you have been in has used video responses … therefore I find that this response lacks credible evidence to support your supposition. (2) Second, fast-listening – you have not used such capabilities in presenting your debates online. Please explain why you have not taken advantage of such a capability. Remember, we are judging you based upon YOUR experience, not upon the experience you could possibly acquire debating online. (3)Third, fast-writing "By using shorthand program, we can practice debate in many online debate sites like www.debate.org more than our opponents." You have yet to show us an example of a debate held on debate.org that consists of vocal exchanges … posting video references is more akin to a PowerPoint presentation than an actual English language debate. [Because our speaking \can contain more contents\ = {will express more content} ‘Content' should almost always be single form. Our speaking /can show more passion/ {will be more passionate} use the future tense with an adjectival form to express a change in quality. Finally, /Our speaking can give us win.'/ {we will win with our improvements in speaking English} remember to be specific regarding what type of speech you will improve] In response to your refutations: (1) Nothing is stopping you from using a pseudonym, ‘acetraveler.' You should have completed the form as well as you were able to. Clearly, you did not. Of course, both you and I know that this is merely a procedural technicality and procedure should never interfere with substance. So, of course, I will focus more on the other, more substantial concerns. (2) English debaters may have an advantage, but do you have an advantage of using better English than an IDS debater of sufficient experience and skill? If the answer is ‘no', I fail to see how we can accept you … freshman. [Remember: There = a place other than ‘here.' Here = the place where you are at. Their = owned/possessed by /belonging to/ them.] (3) Is it really proper to tell us what we should need when you are seeking to be accepted by us, and not the other way around? Otherwise, I would have to agree … only an idiot would not see that using a foreign text based debate system could improve language acquisition. (4) -[a] can your members surpass my level in www.debate.org?" I already have and, clearly, being IDS president, I am a ‘member' in this hypothetical situation. -[b] "I cannot win 4 debates because I forfeit some rounds in the debates basically." This does not bode well for your acceptance – how can we be sure of your commitment when you so clearly are not committed to the debate you so laud? (5) Learning US culture does not matter so much as, by your own admission, the best debaters are Australian. http://spreadsheets.google.com... Shouldn't you be learning Australian English instead of American English? (6) "And, I should tell 'Thank you' because you show me useful information of the site that can help my reviewing tenses and forms. But, You didn't point out anything what the part is wrong. That means you gave no evidence for supporting your argument." Very well – here are some examples of grammatical errors you have made (corrections are in {} and deletions are in / /: (a) "For example, I {have} debate{d} {past tense} in www.debate.org more than 10 times, and I have more than 60 posts in www.idebate.org. And I know many other English debate sites and English debate video sites. You said {that}your debate level is higher than online debaters in the reception room. So you told me you don't need to use online debate sites. But I tell you I {have}already met Ph.D Harish.K.Thakur in the www.idebate.org by competing {in the}Nuclear prohibiting debate. He is a political scientist and a poet. And I can tell you again www.debate.org is the best place for practicing {for the}World University Debate Championship because the people and the environment /in / {on} the site is helpful /for/ {to} you. (b) Third, I was a participant in World Civic Youth Forum 2009(http://www.wcyf2009.org......). Although I was not a panel {member}, /but/ I could listen {to the} panel/s'/ {panel's} speech and question{s}. [Although = but, no need to use both] And I met 2 Chinese friends in there and I was their tour guide in Korea {for}3 days. They are /a/{singular, you are discussing plural} university students major{ing} {present verb tense} in international politics. I couldn't speak Chinese, so I guided them by using English. They even slept in my house /in/{for} 2 night{s} {duration vs placement/ plural vs singular}. And they saw so many things in Seoul, Korea by following my /guide/{guidance} {guide = a person providing guidance, guidance = direction}. I'll tell you in the reception room. Because of these reasons, I think my English {skill} {English is an adjective as used here … it must describe a noun of some form} is high although I didn't test TOEIC and TOEFL. TOEIC score (if available) : {please submit} 3. Please write your plan and vision /in/{for} IDS. (within 200 words) I studied very hard for myself to overcome strong opponents around the world, and I {will} contribute {to} {without using the word ‘to' in order to express direction, it is assumed that you are literally contributing the club itself} this club to win 'World University Debating championship' by using my creative and sincere heart. I'll give you 3 examples. … Third, fast-writing : By using {a} {singular article} shorthand program, we can practice debate in many online debate sites like www.debate.org /more/{to improve ourselves more} than our opponents. By using these measures, I {am} certain {that} we can listen {to} our opponents' arguments like slow motion and we can take the advantage in the debate contest. Because our speaking /can/{will} /contain/{express} more /contents/{content}. Our speaking /can/ {will} show more passion. {will = it will happen, can = it may happen … if it only may happen, you are not making a strong enough argument} Finally, Our speaking /can give us win/ {will help us win}. [This is the most egregious mistake … winning is a condition, not a physical object. It can be used as a verb (we won!) an adverb (we performed winningly) or an adjective (we were on the winning team) but very rarely can be used in the noun form … if you wanted to use the noun form, I would recommend " we will have (future tense) many wins." ] Without expressing the truth or falsehood of any given statement you have made, I am unable to render a decision at this time because you have not responded to my primary concern that there is as yet no way to officially verify whether or not you are a competent English speaker and a competent debater in English. I look forward to your explanation of how you can consider yourself competent without official testing. Sincerely yours, Lexicaholic, IDS president