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A place for learning English.

英語の学びのスペースです。

Un lugar para aprender Inglés.

مكان لتعلم اللغة الإنجليزية.

Un lieu pour apprendre l'Anglais.

Ein Ort zum Englisch lernen.

Welcome to EnglishLearning!

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This is a place for people learning English to ask questions about English grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and the like.

All levels of learners are welcome.

Please read the following rules:

  • Be respectful. We may not all speak English fluently. Please help rather than be rude or abusive.

  • Harassment or any derogatory language will not be tolerated.

  • Purposefully inciting arguments, personal attacks and threats will not be tolerated. This includes the posting of personal information and posting with the intention of starting or propagating drama.

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Please feel free to use our friends on your journey to English fluency!!

r/language_exchange, r/languagelearning, r/ielts, or r/whatstheword

/r/Eloquent for learning to speak in a more cultured and sophisticated manner.

/r/languagebuds for finding people to practice your English with.

/r/languagelearning for general discussion about second languages.

/r/correct_my_comment for proofreading.

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Do you clean up/sweep away/remove cobwebs?

Hello everyone!

Could you please help me out?

Does it souns natural? And which verbs would you use?

There are a lot of cobwebs in the garage. For cleaning up the cobwebs I’m going to use a broom, a dust rag, a swiffer, a regular broom, dusting wand to sweep them away/sweep away/remove. Honestly, I don’t feel secure when spiders weave their webs in the corners of my garage.

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2024/12/18
12:33 UTC

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Using PC Games in English Language Learning

I am currently playing a game called Warframe and that game recently implemented content where you talk to characters. I am playing the game in its English setting as part of learning English, but I am afraid to make choices that are unfavorable to me unknowingly (because I don't understand English) and end up reverting to my native language setting.

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2024/12/18
12:28 UTC

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Can someone help me?

Q. How do you remind focus and energy when working on a long-term project?

A. I try to set the clear goals according to the project period. I' m really good at categorizing the goals. I consider it is important to take the Relax and have a good sleep. Because it's helpful for maintaining physical and mental health. Plus, workout is good for recharging my energy, so I try to workout twice a

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2024/12/18
11:50 UTC

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Writing apps

What do you recommend to improve writing? deepl, reverso, grammarly or other option?

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2024/12/18
11:40 UTC

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Is there any awkward expression?

Can you describe a time when you felt truly amazed by nature?

I was a lifeguard at a beach. I never thought the sea was scary. However, I felt the fear of nature as I experienced rip currents and waves higher than my head. I understood that my acquaintances told me that their surfboard was broken while surfing. I think I should be humble in front of nature.

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2024/12/18
11:39 UTC

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I need to improve my speaking skill

Hi there! Im looking for recommendations to improve my speaking skill because in some days im starting a new job about international commerce in Spain and it is required a high english level. I have a C1 but my speaking skill arent good enough. Thanks.

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2024/12/18
11:38 UTC

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Does it sound natural?

Hello everyone!

Could you help me out?

Does it sound natural?

My remot control won't work so I decided to find out the reason. To my relief, it has turned out to be batteries. They are died/out/run out. I've dropped by a store, bought a pair of ones. At home I just replaced old batteried into the new ones. And voila, the remote.is woking well.

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2024/12/18
11:23 UTC

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is it common to call a student "eight summers "?

Boys and girls of six, seven, even eight summers line up before their clan’s elders.

  1. is it common to call a student "eight summers "?

Parents line the walls nearby

  1. what's the difference between this and "Parents line near the walls " or "Parents line at the walls nearby"? what would you phrase ?
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2024/12/18
11:21 UTC

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Any weird things?

Can you share a particular habit you've developed this year that has improved your life?

It hasn't been very long, my family reflect on their own day. We've started it to break the bad habit of being late. We share like this way.. how many meetings I had and what time did I arrive earlier than the scheduled time. This really works for my family.

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2024/12/18
11:20 UTC

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Is anything incorrect here??

What specific routines do you follow to start your day?

For starting my day, as soon as I wake up, I brush my teeth. And I have something before I go to work. I eat handful of nut, protein beverage and frozen blueberry with yogurt. These are substitutions of my breakfast. And it has been almost 2 years for doing this routine.

2 Comments
2024/12/18
11:13 UTC

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Is this sentence correct?

Had an exercise, make a sentence out of the available set of words. "We might be taking on a school trip next week" is what I came up with, where the "take on" means "undertake".

Would it make sense stylistically? Can you imagine someone use it in their speech? Maybe in a sarcastic tone.

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2024/12/18
10:40 UTC

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please answer no. 2,4,7, and 9. and why the no. 7 question is not wrong even though it is in past perfect continuous tense?

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2024/12/18
10:32 UTC

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looking for an adjetive word

After blowing up dozens of balloons with my mouth, I feel _____.

I find it hard to express feeling, even in my first language.

Thank you.

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2024/12/18
09:32 UTC

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Is there a difference between 'clever' and 'intelligent'?

I'm a grad student in Korea, and English is really hard for me.

32 Comments
2024/12/18
09:15 UTC

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Looking for pronunciation feedback/tips to sound more native (American accent)

https://voca.ro/16hENPw0BOKf

At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, and at the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.

Can I see a show of hands of anyone here who didn’t make a mistake or do something they regretted at 22? Yep. That’s what I thought. So like me, at 22, a few of you may have also taken wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss. Unlike me, though, your boss probably wasn’t the President of the United States of America. Of course, life is full of surprises.

Not a day goes by that I’m not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply.

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2024/12/18
09:00 UTC

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The late Joseph Parker?

Which of the following phrases work?

a. The deceased Joseph Parker

b. The late Joseph Parker

2 Comments
2024/12/18
08:52 UTC

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what's "in a crusty heap" means?

she peeled them off and left them in a crusty heap on the porch.

quote from flipped chapter 1

4 Comments
2024/12/18
07:17 UTC

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Daily idiom: a piece of piss

a piece of piss

!A vulgar slang term used to describe something that is very easy or simple to do.!<

Examples:

  • That test was a piece of piss, I'm sure I aced it.

  • Fixing the computer was a piece of piss for him.

29 Comments
2024/12/18
07:00 UTC

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why it merits researching

Does the following work?

A research proposal is just an organised, formal report that makes sense of what you intend to research, why it merits researching, and how you intend to research it.

4 Comments
2024/12/18
06:41 UTC

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do you understand this sentence?

I've had a few crushes but never been anybody's

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2024/12/18
05:25 UTC

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"...walked..." "So do I."

Does the following work?

My deceased grandfather walked two miles to school when he was a kid. So do I.

5 Comments
2024/12/18
02:41 UTC

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Hello! ¿Qué dice aquí?

I c🐜 🍐 to see you.

4 Comments
2024/12/18
02:10 UTC

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How to learn while reading books

I love to read, but while reading english books, I often skip the words that I don't understand and move on to the next sentence.

I feel like there's a better way to read so I can learn stuff from the book. (ofc immersion is important, but I want a more efficient way to learn. As my reading level rises, I learn little to nothing per book.) I know some ppl will highlight words they don't know on the book and search up the meaning of them later. However, highlighting 'em seems like a huge workload. Also, idk what to highlight. Should I highlight alll the words that I'm not sure of or should I only highlight words that are common/that I'm interested in? How can I review the words highlighted later?

Also, is there another way to learn thru books, like sentence structure, gramma and vocabs.

TLDR : Should I highlight new words while reading or is there another method?What words should I highlight and how to review those words?

8 Comments
2024/12/18
02:09 UTC

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How do you describe being transferred to a job position that’s in another city?

Does the word “transfer” mean just changing into a different position in the same company or also changing your working place? Is there a specific word for that?

12 Comments
2024/12/18
01:39 UTC

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deficit in manufactured goods

What does "deficit" mean in the following? Does it mean that the amount of money spent on producing the goods is greater than the amount earned from those goods? Or does it mean the amount of goods produced is smaller than the amount of goods needed?

The UK's deficit in manufactured goods fell slightly in the last three months.

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2024/12/18
01:28 UTC

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Can you help me correct an exercise?

This is the excercise.

You are on holiday at your favourite tourist destination. Write an email to a friend in another country and tell him/her about the place and the things you are doing there. Then invite him/her and suggest what you can do together.

I wrote this:

Hello Peter, I'm in Japan, here is beautiful, the streets are very clean and quiet. I'm visiting the shops here in Tokyo, they sell a lot of gadgets of anime and manga characters, obviously mangas and videogames. I'm eating delicious food, sushi and ramen, I'm not used to this flavours. I'm planning to visit the temples. 

Why don't you came here with me? We can do karaoke, relax in the park. We can go eat melonpan wich is a type of sweet bread, and have fun tasting all the strange drinks they sell here.

Let me know what you think about this.

Bye 🙂

8 Comments
2024/12/17
23:55 UTC

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Which is correct?

Hello everyone, hope you’re doing great. Can you please help me with this?

So this is what I want to say:

He was recording a 20 minute video and when he was halfway through it, he realized he was wearing his shirt inside out.

I was wondering if I could shorten it like this:

He was recording a 20 minute video and realized halfway through that he was wearing his shirt inside out.

Or

He was recording a 20 minute video and realized he was wearing his shirt inside out halfway through.

Which one is correct? And my main question is if we can use “halfway through” by itself without anything added after it, like the last example. And are “halfway through” and “halfway into” the same in terms of meaning?

24 Comments
2024/12/17
22:49 UTC

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How to say the sun is big in English

Hi, can anyone help me to translate please. In Chinese, when we say ‘the sun is big today’, which means it’s very hot today. What is the English way of saying? Thank you

139 Comments
2024/12/17
22:35 UTC

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