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How to be really prophicient in English.
I have four months in a job that requires to speak English with real customers everyday by phone and even though I'm getting more confident in the language I got a strong accent and also I don't feel confident to talk about something that is not related to the technical vocabulary that I use in my job. Any advice?
βItβs hard to make any best friends at work/on the job. Colleagues are just colleagues.β Does this sound natural?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hya2ap/its_hard_to_make_any_best_friends_at_workon_the/
weird structure/order with confusing negatives
so im a native speaker but today i was reading something for class and noticed a lot of old-sounding (potentially archaic or reserved for intellectual literature) syntax, for lack of a better word. > image 1: "he was home but little" this seems like it's saying "he was home (all the time) except for little (= sometimes)" but the contact suggests that he was often *not* home, and rarely was. > image 2: "... his not playing there" as i understand it, "(not) playing there" is treated as a noun in this structure? how does that work? > image 3: "... little old, bent, withered figure..." the lack of a comma between "little" and "old" is confusing me. is one of them acting as an adverb for the other adjective? > image 4: "when is it to be mine?" shouldn't it say "when is it *going* to be mine" instead? > image 5: "the most sluggish of pulses" why is the word "of" included here? wouldn't the sentence be correct without it?
English lessons
Hello, I am Julia a French student, and I have been taking English courses at University since September (I already have between B2 and C1 level). I would just like to be able to communicate with English native speakers to brush up my level. I would prefer to learn British English, but others English are perfectly fine as well! I can speak here or in other social medias, like Instagram or WhatsApp. I speak either through messages or voicecalls. Thanks in advance and have a great day! π PS: the flair I added was just to be able to post, I am not looking for any kind of lessons in particular.
'I got 70 pieces of candy for Halloween!' - does this sentence look right? (I'm not sure about the word 'candy' and how to use it when I need to talk about separate pieces of candy)
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hvr7oh/i_got_70_pieces_of_candy_for_halloween_does_this/
What does βWe are probably due a reckoningβ mean?
I saw it on an article and idk how to translate 'due'. Also why is there no 'to' after due? Why only 'a'? Article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/28/noise-cancelling-headphones-risks-concerns
A single housewife?
So I was reading a single woman's report today that had a "housewife" in the job section, and that didn't set right with me because how are you a housewife without a husband? Lol. Am I missing something?
isn't bottom up learning (the typical approach in english learning books) for grammar kind of useless?
i'm talking mostly based on my experience. i tried to learn grammar from books for example Grammar in Use, and my procedure was good. It was: reading the definition / explanation of the grammar and then doing its exercises. but sadly i forgot almost all of them; especially the complex ones. what do you think? do you agree? for you, what was the best approach for learning grammar?
Am I ever going to be able to understand English as much as I do in my native tongue
I just started learning english like four years ago which i self taught for three years then came to US for college. however I was wondering if i ever gonna understand English like my native language. for example if i heard someone saying γγγιγγΎγ i can instantly point out that it sounds weird without thinking but when it comes to English I canβt.
What should I choose?
Hello, I am learning English, but I have a problem, which is that I can understand most of the words 70%, but I cannot speak. I literally forget the words that I know and understand. If you find it in another context So I am confused, either I practice speaking, which does not help me acquire new words, but I have become able to speak, or I focus on learning new words, which does not make me able to speak, and I will remain in the same problem. Thanks for reading if you have any suggestion please tell me