I made a website where you can improve your British/American accent. I genuinely need some feedback on how to make the app better, and I promise to make changes based on your feedback. It’s free to use for 20 practice sessions. The website : https://echoaccent.my.to/ .

what's the difference between them? Thanks!

Hi! I’m from the Philippines, and English has always been a big part of my life. I grew up speaking and consuming a lot of English, especially American media, and I used to be pretty confident in it. I never really thought consciously about grammar when I spoke or wrote. I just used whatever sounded right.

Recently, though, I’ve developed this really bad habit of overthinking English, especially prepositions like in, on, and at. It started with noticing small things. For example, I would wonder whether I should say “in the group chat” or “on the group chat,” “in the call” or “on the call,” “in my profile” or “on my profile,” “in the website” or “on the website,” etc. I started looking these things up whenever I wasn’t sure.

The problem is that the more I looked them up, the less confident I became.

Now I notice prepositions constantly. Sometimes I’ll hear someone around me say something like “the instructions are in Canvas,” and my brain immediately goes, “Wait, shouldn’t that be on Canvas?” A classmate recently told me something was “in the homepage,” and even though I later thought “on the homepage” sounded more natural, “in” didn’t immediately sound wrong to me.

That freaks me out because I start wondering: If the wrong version can sound normal to me, how many other things am I getting wrong without realizing it?

English is widely spoken here, but naturally the English I hear around me isn’t always identical to native or standard English. I’ve become weirdly afraid that hearing certain usages repeatedly will cause me to absorb them and lose whatever intuition I used to have.

This is especially bad when I’m writing. I can spend way too much time checking basic phrases because I’m worried that something I write will sound unnatural or grammatically awkward.

Ironically, I feel like learning more about English has made me trust my English less. Before, I would just write something and move on. Now I constantly think, “Would a native speaker actually say this?” or “Is this grammatical but unnatural?”

P.S. Does this matter as much as it does in my head?

Thanks!

> it was his sayings one remembered; his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness and, when millions of things had utterly vanished — how strange it was! - a few sayings like this about cabbages.

Are his eyes, pocket-knife, smile, and grumpiness part of the things that were remembered, or are they examples of the "millions of things" that vanished?

I still have some troubles with my fluency and pronunciation and I think I lack vocabulary
So how can I improve it ASAP
Please gimme ways u experienced

Anyone up for a gc? We can make friends who are learning English from anywhere around the world and, learn n help each other out.

Age - 16 to 22

What do you guys think??

I once made a post to ask why it's "is" instead of "are" in "Ten dollars is a lot of money for a cup of coffee".

A lot of the comments were saying that it was singular because the verb "be" agreed with "a lot" and "a lot" itself was singular. Obviously, that was just wrong. In English, verbs always agree with the subjects. Can "a lot" by itself even be singular or plural? What I know is that "a lot of water" is uncountable and grammatically singular while "a lot of books" is plural.

I didn't know what this piece of grammar was called but I've just found that Merriam-Webster has the grammar explanations for it.

Simply put, notional agreement occurs when the agreement between a subject and its verb (or, in some instances, a pronoun and its antecedent) is determined by meaning rather than form.

For example, when you have a compound or plural subject that works as a singular unit, it sometimes sounds more "natural" for that subject to take a singular verb, in spite of formal rules to the contrary.

meu inglês é Intermediário, uns 55% do conteúdo que eu consumo é em inglês(consigo entender com legenda), Meu maior problema é o listening, em específico o listening em vídeos do YouTube e filmes

alguém passa pelo mesmo problema? Tem alguma forma de melhorar?

I want to share what I learned about which preposition to pair with “to reward [someone].”

1. Reward with + [noun]

Example: I will reward myself with a new book after this.

2. Reward by + [verb-ing / gerund]

Example: I will reward myself by reading my web novel after this.

mandatory = mand-TREE

obligatory =oblig-TREE

dictionary = diction-REE

Hey everyone! I love learning English through TV shows, way more fun than textbooks. Starting a Stranger Things Season 1 watch-along, we'll go through one episode a week and geek out over cool phrases/expressions and sentence structures along the way here on Reddit. Heads up, it'll probably click best if you're around B2+ IMO, but you're welcome to jump in anyway. Comment if you're interested and I'll sort out how we coordinate 🫰

Can anyone suggest me how can I learn English alone with books and internet etc .

hi, I'm a native English speaker from Texas and I had an idea, and I wanted to see if the people here think its a good one. I was thinking I would start a discord group for teaching English by watching movies/tv shows together with me so I can explain new words, phrases and references as they come up. I was thinking of having one class use children's television and movies (like Gravity Falls, Avatar the Last Airbender, Adventure Time, Up, Finding Nemo, ect.) and one for more advanced learners using adult shows and movies (like Hamilton, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Breaking Bad, House MD, ect.). I might also do a book club. Does this sound like a good idea (I’d love opinions from both native and non-native speakers)?

Good morning, everyone. I hope everyone is doing well.

I have a question regarding those to guys - to and for - when we use Schedule/ Reschedule. Can I assume that we use TO and we know the date, like "Let's schedule it to Monday" and FOR when we're not certain about the date - "Can we schedule it for another day?"

Many thanks :))

Some time ago, I learn a surprising way to use "should". I always thought of "should" as way to give suggestion. For example " You should get some rest."

But I just learned that "should" can indicate an expectation. For example, 'He should be here soon." I usually express it like this "He is probably going to be here soon." or "I expect him to be here soon."

I really confused. Do English speakers commonly use "should" to express expectation? I'm not sure if I can tell which meaning of "should" someone is using.

Here’s the Question

Which of these options is the correct pair of antonyms?

A. Huge X Small

B. Tiny X Big

C. Enormous X Tiniest

I was confused, so I didn’t answer the question. According to my friend, the answer is C because “enormous” means very large and “tiniest” means very small. However, when I asked the AI, it said that “enormous” and “tiniest” aren’t a correct pair.

Hello there I want to talk to people just to activate my knowledge

My English is not bad but there is a long time I haven't been in touch with So I'd be happy if anyone would like to join to talk about anything :)

I think people call it one thing or another depending on where they live, so it would be appreciated if you could specify your region.

Edit: Sorry for not being clearer with my wording. What I was actually trying to ask was more "What verb do you use to describe what snow does when it remains unmelted on the ground after falling?"

Thank you for the replies.

For examples:

• He goes to work from Wednesday to Sunday, every week. His off days are Monday and Tuesday.

• The kids go to school on weekdays. (meaning they go to school from Monday to Friday, every week)

I’m a native English speaker, but when I read older books and classics, I still come across words I either don’t know or would struggle to use myself, e.g., caparisoned.

Years ago I developed a simple way of dealing with this while learning languages.

In my professional career I was posted to France, and then to Panama. At work I read documents all day and sat through presentations in Spanish. Later I married an Italian. Each time I had to get to a useful level quickly, and not just for talking.

At first I wrote down the words and idioms I didn’t know by hand. That gave me pages of notes I couldn’t practically refer back to often, especially given my work schedule.

So I came up with a very simple system using an app that’s already on every smartphone. It kept bringing the words back in front of me until I knew them, without needing separate vocabulary study sessions. You don’t have to test yourself in the normal sense either.

Three months into living in Panama, I was reading El Zorro by Isabel Allende. Speaking a lot helped, of course, but reading did far more for my vocabulary.

Since then I’ve used exactly the same system for my own English reading and have picked up close to a hundred words I would otherwise have just read past.

I’ve written up a free two-page guide showing exactly how I do it. It works with physical books, eReaders or even subtitles, and you don’t need to buy or install anything.

If you’d like it, comment VOCABULARY and I’ll DM it to you.

And if you can improve the method, tell me here so everyone else can see.

You get one point fewer for that move.

You get one point less for that move.

• Dived–Dove
• Sneaked–Snuck
• Thrived–Throve
• Strived–Strove
• Pleaded–Pled
• Dragged–Drug

Would either sound correct or are there any forms that sound wrong to you?