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Why is "Let's do it quickly" correct but not "Let's do it fastly/soonly"?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1j2bjwy/why_is_lets_do_it_quickly_correct_but_not_lets_do/
About the word 'homeboy' !
I looked up the word homeboy, and they say it means an acquaintance from your hometown...! It makes sense but I have few questions! 1. Does it only refer to males? Can there be homegirls!? 2. As a girl myself, can I say stuff like "I'm in love with a guy, he's my homeboy"? Or like, "my mother married her homeboy" 3. Does it HAVE to refer to people from your hometown, because I think I've heard people say it when they have different hometowns... also in an internet video, someone says 'homeboy's got a Garmin~' referring himself as the homeboy, but they're not really from the same town..?
Am I possible to be like a native English speaker?
As title said. Am I possible to be like a native speaker? Will the age matter? I am 17 right now, came to the US last year as a college student. I have been learning English since 11, but 15 is the \*actual\* first age of learning English, I feel. I was like A1 or A2 till 14 years old. I didn't even know the word, "equipment" and "maintain." But I bumped up to B2 when I was 15 years old by studying English for a year intensively (writing is still pretty bad tho, other skills are improved certainly. Especially, listening. It skyrocketed to C1 level from A2.) But now, I am struggling with English. I can't memorize new vocab anymore. My speaking and listening were improved in the US, but words......! My English ability will stop in front of C1 level. I hadn't learnt English from a baby or other young age. I was a teen when I start everything. Many people told me it is the common phenomenon in learning. But I couldn't believe it. I stopped learning new words for a while. (I resumed recently tho.) Does anyone has a similar experience and became like a native speaker? (I won't care about accent, but about grammar, vocab, and something like that.) I might need to have some kind of mindset for learning. I am impatient...kinda bad personality for language learning, haha....
Very subtle question about the idea of "Britain" vs "England"
Hi everyone, I am having a quandary as per a title change I am considering for my PhD thesis, which is an English. So, for a bit of context, it's a thesis in humanities about the life and works of a foreign individual who lived for many years in London, the thesis itself focusing on the chapter of their life spent in London. It's important to notice that this person - despite never leaving London - had contacts all over Britain and Ireland (when Ireland was still under direct British rule). In Italian I chose as title "X in Inghilterra", as it would have been straight and simple. But translating into English more nuances are implied, and decided to chose "Britain" instead of "England", especially considering the broader cultural implications of "Britain". Yet I am aware that the word "Britain" is also not so common when it comes to indicating the idea of physical territory, and is often reserved for more specific use. I.e. you say "Politics in Britain", "Made in Britain", but I don't think I have ever heard sentences like "John went back to Britain after spending 7 years in New Zealand"- So thought about "X and Britain", considering Britain not just a physical place but also a metaphor for cultural exchanges. Would this title be correct or do you think I am actually overthinking and "X in England" would have sufficed? Or perhaps do you have other suggestions? TIA!
Don't you think they should be a name in English for when you are older than your Auntie and uncle?
Since your auntie and uncle usually can have authority over you but it doesn't apply when they're around the same age as you or younger than you.
Is amber a shade of yellow?
In the sense that I won't say orange is red, are amber and yellow distinct? In traffic lights and warning signals like travel alerts I'll call them yellow, but they're always officially called amber.
Please explain me the joke. What does “de-brie” means?
https://i.redd.it/t56gwlu8d7de1.jpeg
What do the words in yellow mean? I thought ‘batter’ was like a pummel or strike. Should it be butter? Might sound silly but that’s what I thought
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1hvrydx
People always say i sound gay is it true?
https://voca.ro/191C2OR7wOr0
#Idioms from your language that made it to English: “Not my circus, not my monkey.”
Meaning: Not my problem A perennial favourite among learners of Polish, this phrase reached an even wider audience after appearing in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.