Notice I put pronunciation or accent. That's because they're not exactly the same. The accent requires far more techniques to master to sound native, such as stress, unstress, reduction, linking, blending, contracting and intonation. The good news is that all of these elements work in harmony with each other, so it's easier to learn than we think.

Hi everyone!

I’ve noticed that “then” can sometimes be used as an exclamation or to emphasize something in casual conversations. I understand its usual roles for time, sequence, or logical conclusions (like “If you’re ready, then let’s go”), but I’m curious about its use for emphasis or rhetorical purposes.

For example:

• “Fine, leave me alone then!”

• “What do you want, then?”

Do you use “then” like this in your conversations? If so, could you share examples or situations where you’d naturally use it?

Hello, mates My major is the English language and English isn't my first language and my level in English is B1 so I have this Wednesday a midterm exam in subject 16th-century poetry where study Shakespeare's sonnets, renaissance, sonnets, etc. The sheets that the professor gave to us have a lot of hard words and literature terms it's hard to memorise it all.
Even if I memories it my brain won't write it down in English, you like having the answer but thinking it in my first language and not in English 😭, sometimes use tricks to replace the hard words with simple Synonymous but not always work . Do I need to practice more in writing? What do you think?

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A: My mom was diagnosed with cancer

B: how's she doing?

A: she's doing okay. Still dealing with it for better or for worse. She has learned her lesson. Promised me she'd never smoke again. We'll see

A: If you could go back in time to give your younger self advice, what would it be?

b: get focused early

A: both in age and in the day?

Does it make sense?

I just wonder why in English cakes like the "banana bread" or the "chocolate bread" are called like this. If they're cakes, why are they called bread?

When writing a work of fiction, are they both fine? Or is one better than the other?

The abbreviated version sounds more natural to me, but I'm not sure if it's correct to use it.

What does it mean "to be quiet a guy"?

Its like a peace sign or something but the two finger goes up and down idk what its called at first i thought it was a bunny ear hand sign but when i searched google it appeared people hold their peace sign beyond people's head or it was someone just do a bunny ear with hands help

“The problem/issue is not with my suite.”

“It’s not my suite’s problem/issue.”

Do these sound natural to mean that the central AC of the building doesn’t work and it’s not a problem inside my suite?

I thought you conjugated them? What's going on here?

It's like every time I watch a movie or series, I understand but feel like I am not understanding. It's not the accent or something. I have some Native American friends, and I do speak comfortably around them and understand them quite well, but I don't know if I understand them the way I understand the people who speak my native language. Does anyone know how to get better or how to fix this

Could you please explain, is it possible to say "He reads not any books" and "They know not what they want"? If the answer is yes, is that formal or informal speech? I heard that somewhere, but can't remember where. Thank you all!

Hi native speakers! would you pls help me to improve my essay writting(especially the writing approach/structure).I know that helping others revise an article and clarify its writing approach is a very time- and energy-consuming task. If you could offer one or two suggestions or point out any issues with my work, I would be truly grateful. I hope you can review my essay thoroughly without feeling any burden.

My assignment:

inform your reader on whether or not you are constantly distracted by your phone in class and explain your reasons for your behavior.

My essay：

Personally, I'm constantly distracted by my phone in the classroom. There are so many reasons caused to the fact. I'll show you the two main things. Firstly, the entertaining platforms such as TikTok are attractive and addictive to me. When the teaching content becomes hard and boring, I just can't help my hand attached to the phone and try to have some fun. Also, the classmates around me mostly have the same problem like me. This toxic atmosphere makes me think it's fine to be distracted by my phone during the class. Secondly, there are a lot of text messages I have to reply immediately sometimes. Not only friends but also school affairs make me be distracted by my phone. I never know when monitor would send me a form I should fill in promptly or a president of the school club would ask me to do a vote in no time. These things happened so suddenly and untimely.

In conclusion, there are many factors that cause me to be addicted to the phone. But now, I clearly recognized the problem and will try my best to improve the situation.

Let us learn English. Time sequence. التسلسل الزمني #basicenglishcourse #learnenglishfrombasics

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I see both forms almost equally often. Examples

He never complained about the hard times; they were just a fact of life.

No big mystery, just fact.

Are both fine? Which one is more common?

I always a bit nervous when I say “come” and “beach” because it’s sounds like “cum” and “bitch” I can’t be sure that I don’t say bad words instead of ok words. What’s the difference in pronouns? It have been mysterious for me all the time

Edit: thanks to everyone. Now I understand it’s more, perhaps I just need more practice with this words. Especially I was so confused about come and cum😅 what a different meaning lol. But anyway guys thank you a lot.☺️

What is different between these sentences above when we use for something is certain or inevitable?

Hi everyone! I’m learning English, and I’m curious about these two sentences:

1. “I wonder whether she still loves me.”

2. “I wonder whether she still loved me.”

Are they both grammatically correct? If yes, which one do you think sounds more natural? Or does it depend on the context?

Hi, There is one of my friends has read the conversation, as shown in the attachment below.

Feel free to comment if there is any pronunciation that can be improved. Thank you!

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Is it best wishes on your birthday or best wishes for your birthday?

Hi fellow learners,
I'm a writer with bad grammar and I want to improve it... how to?
A friend of mine recommended me to talk to native speakers but I have no native English speaker friends....
pls help.

This is something that goes beyond learning the language, it’s about what the speakers perceive. Different languages perceive colours differently (take some Asian languages that consider blue and green shades of the same colour)

In my language, cyan (ciano) is a shade of blue (azul). But I’ve seen some cases that make me wonder if in English they’re considered separate colours. Are they? It sounds super weird to me to consider that…

In my childhood, I Iearned the phrase "deaf and dumb" to describe a person who's unable to speak. I used "deaf" a lot to describe people who couldn't hear, and sometimes "deaf and dumb" too. But I never used "dumb" alone because I didn't know anyone who could hear but not speak.

Today, I was thinking about something and I realised dumb also means stupid. Then I googled to see if it was still used to describe people with speech impediments.

Turns out, it doesn't. Then I checked what the appropriate word was, and it gave me "mute".

Now I understand "dumb" shouldn't be used, but I find "mute" to be really weird. We use it to describe non living things, like television or radio, etc is on mute. Whenever I try to imagine using this word for a person, it feels really jarring, like I'm turning down their volume with a remote.

Is their another word I can use for such people? Google gave me speechless, voiceless and silent, but all of them have other meanings too.