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CoCoPopswithCruncyNut · 15/10/2018 22:10

Not native speaker and I need some help. I'm just dropping an email to someone who I haven't seen since summer.

I said , I hope you are well and everything went well with ...' is it too many 'well'-s ?

I have been living in the UK for some time now but when I read my email back I thought this bit sounded funny. Any thoughts?

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emmeyebea · 15/10/2018 22:13

Please don't worry - they know you are not a native speaker, and they will be happy just to hear from you Smile

InspectorIkmen · 15/10/2018 22:14

It is too many 'wells' :D and I'd probably change the second part to '...and that everything went successfully with...'

AornisHades · 15/10/2018 22:14

It's fine but you could replace the first well with OK

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 15/10/2018 22:15

No it's fine OP, don't worry, I'm sure they're just happy to hear from you.

waxy1 · 15/10/2018 22:16

Two isn’t too many.

ChaosMoon · 15/10/2018 22:16

I tend to avoid repeating words too closely in an e-mail, but there's nothing "wrong" about writing it as you have. If you were looking for an alternative, I'd separate the sentence and turn one part into a question.

Either:
"I hope you're well. How did everything go with..."
Or
"How are you? I hope everything went well with..."

Don't worry if you've already sent it though!

Knittedfairies · 15/10/2018 22:16

Don’t worry about it OP.

Taffeta · 15/10/2018 22:16

Yes I’d change one of the wells

Eg hope all good
Hope everything went swimmingly (this a bit up its arse tho)
Hope all was good with xx

ProfessorMoody · 15/10/2018 22:17

I think it's absolutely fine :)

NancyDonahue · 15/10/2018 22:18

It's fine, op.

I'd never know from your post that English was not your first language.

StepAwayFromGoogle · 15/10/2018 22:22

It sounds fine, OP, really, but if you wanted to change it you could maybe go with something like 'I hope things are good and everything went well with...'

CantWaitToRetire · 15/10/2018 22:22

As emmeyebea says, if they know English is not your native language then they'll forgive you using a word twice. If you absolutely don't want to use the word 'well' twice, then in the second instance you could say "and everything went favourably with...."

CoCoPopswithCruncyNut · 15/10/2018 22:25

Thanks everyone! I thought better ask someone ... Always eager to improve my English and although I think I'm am pretty fluent I still question myself every now and then 😳 ... Altough on better days I correct my native English speaker boyfriend spelling mistakes 😂

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