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Native speakers, do you need to recite anything growing up
Hi, I recently started to recite excerpts or good articles or speeches. I wonder is that something you do when you were in school? Is that helpful to learn the language?
"Parents paid for my college" meaning
If someone tells you that their parents paid for their college degree, do you assume that their parents paid money out of savings/cashflowed the tuition, or that their parents took out thousands in debt for their child under their name, so they pay off the student loans for years later instead of their child? Which one is more likely, since no one seems to clarify which one.
Is singular they correct?
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How is it called when someone takes your turn?
For example, you are standing in line somewhere and a desk/counter frees, so now it’s your turn, but the person next to you goes to the desk instead of you. Is there a word for this?
What is the actual answer here? I'm so confused.
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Which language do you think is the furthest from English?
In other words, which language makes its native speakers face the greatest challenge when learning English, or vice versa?
How do you call the person who is ignorant/unskilled in his work?
Hello, everyone! We have an amazing word in Russian "рукожоп", it literally can be translated as "someone with his arms growing out of the ass". This is a completely unskilled, clumsy and ignorant peson, doing his work with terrible results, and he goes "I did it for the whole my life" or "It will be fine anyway". I discovered the word "cack-handed" but don't sure if it outdated. How do you call this peson?
laughing in English is strange to me
so, in my country (Brazil) we laugh using "kkkkkkkk" or "kakakakakak" etc, and the classic "hahahaha" that is used in english, in my mind sounds like a villain laugh, and this is so strange to me, just want to share this difference
What is the difference between young and teenager ?
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Why is there “at” here?
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