I wanted to refer to this part of the bed, but realized I don’t know what these are called. And I wanna clarify, I mean the pole bits, not the legs, head or the foot.

What’s the difference between 'be known as' and 'be known for'? Both sound similar to me

I need you guys help

I have enrolled the yoga in July for my diet. I have enrolled three on weekdays but I didn't almost attend my yoga class.

I was looking for another word for for impact, saying “x has an huge impact on society” but I wanted to reword it to affect/effect. Which one is grammatically correct?

The "-thing" sound seems different depending on the word. For example, "something" vs "anything," or "nothing" vs "everything." What do native speakers think about this?

Text above is quote as is, below is qn attempt at making it direct speech

I have been really enjoying watching "New Girl" recently and was wondering if it's good for learning English. I know that sitcoms are not the best to learn a language but I wanted to know what you guys think.

In these two sentences:

1. The blue man sign on the door represents that it’s the men’s restroom.
2. The red light on the traffic signal stands for ‘stop,’ while the green light means ‘go.’

Why can’t I use the other word?

I have been watching news , youtube contents especially created for us-uk citizens. I encounter with unknow phrase just one or two time in a 30min talk , I am able to understand entire content however when I have to speak ,sometimes i feel I am b1-b2 level, next month i will take ielts exam and i am quite sure in listening-reading part I might be take 8(upper c1/almost c2) but I fear taking low score in speaking part

I do practice about speaking ,I use every oppurtunity , I have been living UK last 5 months and apart from school I have oppurtunity to talk with natives 3days a week , I do pratices with natives almost 6hours weekly , and a lot with other students but still i can't see enough improvement

I don't understand how people is reaching native level fluency ? last a few years I put excessive amount efford I spend every possible resources for this however still i feel i need a decade more

has anyone experienced this kind of enormous gap between english skills ? how did you solve it ? how can i equalize the skills

So was talking with a guy in a game and he was saying his dog was old so he needed help eating. I commented “aww poor dog.” And after chatting he commented “16 years old bud.” Referencing the dogs age. My question is, is bud an offensive term or just a friendly term in this scenario? Is it ok to use it or is it considered offensive.

Long story short many many people told me i sound like i'm trying too hard to fake an accent, sure i'm not native and i don't expect myself to sound like a native English speaker but after all the practice i put in i still get these kinds of comments. If you got time could you analyze my voice and tell me what i do wrong so that i can try to fix it?

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hello guys!

so, every time i see something nice that someone made/did a sentence always come to my mind "that turned (out/up) really nice!" but i never know which one is correct or even if i should use another word after "turned".

what both of these expressions mean and what are other good ways to show others my appreciation for something they have done?

I couldn't find any time on your schedule I was available in.

According to chatgpt it should be "for" but because chatgpt makes mistakes sometimes I wanted to make sure by asking native speakers of English.

Thank you

Come and have a lesson with me - https://en.amazingtalker.com/teachers-and-tutors/margaret-ayre-1c15ea45-c50b-4a8a-9f24-47fe636c7f11

Hi folks

This may look like a sneaky way to share my channel but it truly isn't.

I started a youtube channel (it deals with Star Wars) and I've been receiving a few comments mentionning my accent.

"Normally, I hate AI voices, but in this case I would prefer it. Your accent is THICK and nearly incomprehensible without subtitles"

"Your accent is funny I'm just waiting for him to say 'fire ze missile'"

And some other guy compared my saying with Fat Albert's cartoon

Obviously my accent isn't perfect since I ain't a native speaker. But is it really incomprehensible? Plenty other viewers simply enjoy the video without questionning my accent, and I've always been told my accent was correct. Is it possible that these people are simply not used to a kind of international accent? Or are they just telling a harsh truth?

Here's my latest video so that you can juge : https://youtu.be/aFuGVXu841M?si=1wj6pMlSu-SDRkIY

Cheers

For a bigger concept, I don't live in an English-speaking country (this is expected, but worth mentioning),and most of my time I communicate in Spanish. when I speak English, this accent stands out very much, I know that it doesn't stop people from understanding me, but I don't like it myself. Many people have said that you need to practice and choose the accent you want to speak, but I'm more concerned with the question: is it even possible? Or is it impossible to get rid of it over time?

“I forgot Luca’s and Marco’s ID addresses.” I’m talking about two possessors and two distinct objects, so the form “I forgot Luca and Marco’s ID addresses” is wrong here, right? I’m asking for a general doubt of mine.

Can anyone let me know how to request promoting a new channel? I see it is required to request before posting it however I am not sure how…

As the title says, I don't know why this book substitutes some letters in this word (yellow highlighted) with asterisks, it doesn't seem like a curse/bad word. Please help me out.

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I took some audio clips from movies, tv series and audiobooks and made Anki Decks out of them.

The audio is in English and the way I designed the learning process is this: you basically listening a bunch of times to an audio clip in English trying to figure out what it is saying. Then you read the text version of what was being said. The next time you'll come across the same audio clip you'll be much better at understanding it.

I personally noticed quite an improvement in my English.

The written notes are mostly in English. Some are in Russian.

Anki is a free program which makes remembering things easy by employing a spaced repetition algorithm, designed to optimize memory retention.

The app is called AnkiDroid on googleplay.

After installing AnkiDroid you have to add the Decks, which you could download there: https://ankiweb.net/shared/by-author/1863999770

These are all the available Decks so far:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Enola Holmes (1, 2)

The Old Way, The Artful Dodger S01

Stranger Things (1, 2, 3, 4)

Wolf Creek (2005) and Cyberpunk Edgerunners

The Hobbit

The Crowded Room

Wednesday

Severance

Beetlejuice