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Judge my accent please
https://v.redd.it/8dmhjm8bysde1
Does this sound natural?
"Do you have membership with us?" Does this sound nautral? I'm asking a customer.
Do I have a strong accent?
https://voca.ro/1leLM1gKXb5t
Is "A aligns with B" equivalent to "B aligns with A"?
I'm writing to express the similarity between the research directions of a professor and mine with "his research aligns with my project". I wonder if this is improper. Does it imply that my project is more important and provides a standard that the professor should "align with"? Should I say "my project aligns with his research" instead? ChatGPT told me the sentence is fine, and suggested using "his research resembles my project" if I want to be more neutral. Is that right? TIA
disappointed with/in/about someone
Which prepositions work in the following? They were disappointed **with/in/about** Jonh.
pull through (phrasal verb)
When do you use it? Here's my try: I've pulled through this month but it was rough. (i could barely make ends meet). I went down with a cold outside last friday but i've just pulled through this midweek. In time to get back to work! (check the grammars, please) (I take other suggestions and examples be free to get across your thoughts).
to work up = generate?
Can this be used as "to generate". i've gotten an example over these lines: After going for a walk, i had worked up sweat so i should have changed clothes now. (please check the grammars). So my question is whether i may express this idea of "produce x" or "generate x" or "bring forth" or, if this only works with sweat, doesn't it? Thanks.
After seeing/after hearing
Instead of "if other countries see this" can "after seeing" be used in the following sentence: >I'm afraid that after seeing this (or after seeing them do this) other countries might follow suit. And: >After hearing him say bravo, a few other people followed suit. I'm mostly just wondering if "after seeing" can be used in the first sentence.
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
Difference between alternate and alternative?
Hi, can someone explain if these words are synonyms or if they have different meanings, and when i would use which ones. Thanks ☺️