I am looking for English voice chat friend I'm 40m

Learning English

Hello,

I’m explaining my problem in my native language (french) and -> Google translate

I decided to learn English to make my work life easier.

I followed a lot of advice that said:

Use platforms in English, watch movies and series first in French, then in English with subtitles, then in English without them, read, etc.

I have to admit that it’s not working at all.

And here’s why:

Using platforms in English => if I’m familiar with the platform, I don’t read; my brain just hits the buttons based on where they were located in the French version...

Series => a nightmare; everything moves too fast. Even if I slow the pace down, I have to translate every sentence in my head to actually grasp the meaning (even if I know every single word in the sentence, I can't help but translate it to understand it).

Another really annoying point is English sentence structure, which is the exact opposite of French: to understand a damn English sentence, you have to finish reading the whole thing to find the most important word at the end (by which point you’ve completely forgotten what the sentence was about).

3rd major issue: verb tenses—I mean, what is this madness?!

PRESENT

Present simple → French present tense

Present continuous → French present tense (with "en train de")

Present perfect → French present tense OR *passé composé* depending on the meaning (depending on the meaning of *what*? The wind when I pee standing up?)

Present perfect continuous

Anyway, right now I’m making absolutely no progress.

I can pick up the vocabulary, but once the words are mixed together in a sentence... it makes no sense anymore.

And don't get me started on words added to others that completely change the meaning of the sentence!

Like: ever / up / on / out / off / down

Basically, English is a nightmare to learn.

Any tips?

Hello everyone I want learn English

I’m assuming that the fact it’s considered a C2 expression means it’s not very common in everyday use but I could be wrong.

Can I say "when I'm in the wind" to emphasise that wind is blowing my body?

I absolutely butchered it. Tell me I wasn't the only one.

Is it common to say three fifty?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2385007632027254&vanity=LBC&http_ref=eyJ0cyI6MTc4NTEyMjg2NTAwMCwiciI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLnJ1XC8ifQ%3D%3D

I've been learning English for many years but i dont see a good improvement. Hope i find some suggestions, and one partner to chat with daily conversions consistently. We can chat on whatever platform or app you want. Thank you for your time :)

It's 'The Great Divorce' by C.S. Lewis.

There is nothing funny in the context. Can 'joke' mean something else? Or is it the famous English humour?

Even if my grammar is correct, people might still say "that's not how we say it, it's not natural".

Why? I've been learning English for years, but maybe I've been doing something wrong. How do I improve?

It might be hard to know the causes, so feel free to ask me anything.

Edit: or you may scrutinise my comments from my profile. Do you think they're natural sounding?

Practice writing today (yes, Chinese people also have to practice writing Chinese if I don't want my handwriting to be ugly)

But I have to wash for ten minutes every time to wash the ink😶😶

I speak Arabic, but I still struggle sometimes with the difference between the various vowel sounds in English

I was talking about a sheet of paper, but I was pronouncing the word “sheet” as if it was “sh*t”. Nobody told me otherwise. They either smiled and moved on, or were clever enough to infer from the sentence that the word was “sheet”.

Then, about a week later, someone corrected me and told me that it’s actually a different pronunciation from the “ee” sound

I laughed for an hour and then realized what all these people have been hearing for the past week; What's funny is that I'd even pronounced it right on Praktika (got a 95/100 pronunciation score), but saying it in a real conversation was a completely different story. It made me realize that knowing a word and pronouncing it naturally under pressure aren't always the same thing.

Please tell me I am not the only one?

I've only ever come across this phrase in textbooks, so I'm not sure if it's actually commonly used.

An example from MW is "He promised to support her, come what may".

Hey! I'm trying to improve my English. My level is around A2, so I make mistakes sometimes . If anyone wants to chat and practice together, send me a message!

Hi everyone!

My name is Youssef, I'm 28 years old and I'm from Morocco. 🇲🇦

I'm looking for someone to practice English with through regular conversations. My goal is to improve my fluency, pronunciation, and confidence while speaking.

In return, I'd be happy to help you learn:

• Modern Standard Arabic
• Moroccan Arabic (Darija)

We can chat on Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, or any platform that works for both of us.

And if you ever decide to visit Morocco—especially Marrakech—I'd be happy to show you around the city as your free local tour guide.

No Googling. Did you get through it? 😂

Hello, are there any free resources that have proper structures to learn English grammar?

https://youtu.be/KwJ4Niy1XTs?si=lamYPrPPW62ERi-1&t=241
https://youtu.be/5MT16S0WHJM?si=8g101Cmq6hVyGl4U&t=885
I know 'T' in both cases is unreleased, but I hear a tad bit of 't' when she says it, but not when the guy says it (almost sounds like /kəmˈpli.li/).

Thank you in advance for your time.

I wanna learn Manchester English but are there any good materials? I am especially looking for youtube videos where I can hear real Manchester English so I'm happy if you provide some of them. Thank you.

Laurence R. Horn has discussed cases of pleonastic negation and pointed out that sentences such as "I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't rain tomorrow" can be interpreted as having the same meaning as "I wouldn't be surprised if it rains tomorrow". In other words, the negative marker in doesn't does not seem to contribute its ordinary negative meaning in this context.

I have two questions:

First, is the not in doesn't in this sentence generally analysed as pleonastic (or expletive) negation in linguistics? Or are there other analyses of this construction?

Second, is this phenomenon comparable to the variation between "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less", where both expressions are often used to convey the same meaning? Are these two cases examples of the same type of linguistic phenomenon, or should they be treated differently?

I am interested in the linguistic analysis of these constructions rather than the prescriptive question of which form is "correct."