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be intended to entice people to buy
Do the following sentences work? a. The houses are intended to entice people to buy. b. The houses are intended to entice people to buy them.
Is my Brazilian accent hard to understand when I read?
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Does she say “no, it does that”? What does this mean? Thanks
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What's the difference between an Idiom and Expression?
I always get confused between the two. From what I know, Idiom's meaning aren't straight forward but expression's are.
The context is we are talking in a room.
I say 1. “lower your voice. You don’t want the people outside to hear, do you?” 2. “lower your voice. You don’t want the people out there to hear, do you?” Which one sounds natural?
Has anyone reached native level accuracy ?
I have been studying English for a very long time. I think I studied more than five thousand hours dedicated , thousand prive lessons , almost thousand class lesson in the UK ,a alot more self studying every resource on the internet claim that a thousand hours dedicated studying should have enough for C2 level but I feel I am far beyond C2. I don't know even it is archievable anymore , I am not sure if I can maintain my motivation a few thousand hours more before starting this journey I thought two years will enough but now I feel even a decade may not enough, my speaking pace almost as same as my native language and also my listening skilll good however I continuously do gramatical mistakes either on paper or while I speak I would like to hear , If anyone solved their language problem how many years did it take ? What did you throughout journey ?
What does “…HAD me for secret Santa” mean?
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Anyone please explain me the difference in these words: borough, district, neighborhood.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hyyx5w/anyone_please_explain_me_the_difference_in_these/
Is this correct?
But it hasn’t all been for nothing.
is anyone else reading english on a daily basis? (as a non-native of course)
I managed to read (almost) every day for the last three years and while I still have a long road ahead of me, I can certainly feel a big improvement. I don't really have a goal aside from just getting better. I only do this for my own pleasure. I wanna be able to read difficult book without ever needing a dictionary and understand every spoken word in every context. Well that's actually a big goal I guess :D I do watch a lot of english content as well. Youtube mostly. News, discussions, videos about history and just random stuff. I play my video games in english as well. It used to be my daily habbit to read novels years ago but somehow I stopped. I picked it up again and basically just switched to english instead of continuing to read in my native language, which is german. Sometimes you feel so dumb because you need to pick up your dictionary every two seconds. ( I use my smartphone and it's blessing compared to physical book). You get angry with yourself because you know you checked that word at least three times already... you almost feel like an conman, impersonating someone or something you are not. But these moments pass and the joy starts to kick in the more fluid your reading pace gets. Right now i'm reading W. Irving. Tales of a Traveler (incl. Sleepy Hollow) and I quite like it. What are your experiences? cheers \*\*\*\* PS: here is actually a list of my books I already read in english. I have a normal 40 hours work week so I would say 50 books are not that bad :D Before 2022 I only read very rarely. Feb. 2016 1) Treasure Island, Stevenson 2) Alice in Wonderland, Caroll 3) Jekyll and Hyde, Stevenson 4) Through the Looking Glass, Caroll 5) Weird Tales 1938, various 6) Sherlock Holmes Hound of Baskerville, Doyle 7) Frankenstein, Shelley 8) Time Machine, Wells 9) The Scent of Death, Beckett Dec. 2021 10) The Hobbit, Tolkien 11) Lord of the Rings, Tolkien 12) Eaters of the Dead, Crichton 13) Travels to West Africa, Kingsley 14) Silmarillion, Tolkien 15) The Pickwick Club Papers, Dickens Dec. 2022 16) don't wanna talk about this one 17) 1984, Orwell 18) Call of Cthulhu (Collection), Lovecraft 19) Brave new World, Huxley 20) War of the Worlds, Wells 21) Unfinished Tales, Tolkien 22) complete short stories of A. Bierce 23) Make Room Make Room, Harrison 24) The King in Yellow, Chambers 25) Everything that rises must converge, O'Connor 26 - 31) full collection of 6 Lovecraft books 32) Jurassic Park, Crichton 33) Men like Gods, Wells 34) The Horror Stories of R.E. Howard 35) Moby Dick, Melville Jan. 2024 36) The Fisherman, Langan 37) The Plague, Camus 38) Scenes of London, Dickens 39) something wicked this way comes, Bradbury 40) The Haunting of Hill House, Jackson 41) Uncle Toms Cabin, Stowe 42) The Loss of the Ship Essex, various 43) Rendezvous with Rama, Clarke 44) Ghost Stories, Dickens 45) we have always lived in this Castle, Jackson 46) The Stranger, Camus 47) The Great God Pan Collection, Machen 48) One Hunderd Years of Solitude, G.G. Marquez 49) The Gods Themself, I. Asimov 50) Dracula, Bram Stoker