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You do you? How does it even mean?
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How to actually get to native speaker level?
I really feel my English has plateaued. I live in the US, work full time, talk to my neighbor and coworkers every day. However, I don’t feel I’m improving, because the people I talk to will not point out my problems. I’m also comfortable speaking at work but I only use the words I know repetitively. Any suggestions? Any platform is helpful? Most of the tools on the market are for beginners IMO.
What is the logic behind this?
I often watch YouTube videos in English, and I've noticed phrases like these very often. For example, if the video is about a dog eating, a comment might say: "Not the dog eating faster than Olympic runners ðŸ˜" Or "Not the owner giving the dog a whole family menu to eat" Why do they deny what’s happening? I think it’s a way of highlighting something funny or amusing, but I’m not sure about that. I’ve also seen them adding -ING to words that are NOT verbs. For example, if in the video someone tries to follow a hair tutorial and fails, someone might comment: "Her hair isn't hairing" "The brush wasn't brushing!"

Saw a debate on the pronunciation of one and won being the same. Are they the same?
I feel like at the end of "won", the mouth is a bit wider than "one"
Native English speakers, do you say "and you?" instead of "how about you?"
I'm a native English speaker and I've never said and you in English in my life. I find it to be unnatural, but it's definitely not grammatically wrong. When I started learning Italian and later Spanish I learned that the most common way to say it is and you in those languages. I'm wondering if some other native speakers say and you or if they say hbu or wbu or something else.

Shouldn't the outlined text be written in Past Perfect?
I.e. "They didn't see another person until they HAD reached..." Source/Book shown in the screenshot: "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
Past tense verbs for swim, run, and jump.
I've always been confused by the past tense for jump. After you swim, you say that you swam. After you run, you say that you ran. After you jump, I would think that you jamp. Why do we replace the 'i' and 'u' with an 'a' for swim and run, but not jump?
Are there any idioms to say “secretly support someone or something “?
For example, 1. He is an American citizen but he secretly supports Russia’s intelligence agencies. 2. She said she is a swiftie but it turns out she secretly supports the work of Kanye by streaming his songs. Are there any better idioms to say these sentences? They sound so robotic and boring. Thanks to my limited knowledge, I don’t know any alternatives and I don’t know anywhere I can look it up. Native speakers please help me, thanks!
Water off a ducks back and fall on deaf ears? Interchangeable or no?
I've been working really hard to get better at using idioms. But I often come across idioms that are very similar and that's when I get confused. The title being an example. Another would be "slip of the tongue and let the cat out of the bag". Really curious to know how natives use idioms so naturally.
How learning english?
Hi i AM brazilian, my english is bad and not can write english perfect but when i read can understand everything,why does this happen? Obs: I wrote with help of google