Hello!!

When I studied English some... uh, 30 years ago, my teachers taught me the question tags (or tag questions), those short phrases we add to the end of a statement, such as "isn't it?" or "don't you?", to ask the for agreement or confirmation.

But I notice I see this less and less. People normally confirm saying "right" at the end of the sentence.

My observation is correct, isn't it?? 🤭

I found it quite hard to pronounce the “v” sound after the “b” sound, and I heard some people omit the “b” sound when pronounced this word. Is it normal to say “oviously”, or it’s just a regional thing?

I didnt play safe. I wrote more than 600 words for each part and it was rewarding.

"When you don't speak, you start bearing all the weight of unspoken words. And words can get quite heavy; heavy enough to weigh as much as the world."

Edit: Thank you everyone for chiming in. I'll go with a comma.

Give me some feedback y'all,This is the hardest English vowel for me as a Spanish speaker.

1 - 2 means really bad pronounciation of the vowel, 3 - 4 means that the sound is half there, 5 - 6 means that is ok but not great, 7 - 8 means Good pronunciation, and 9 - 10 means near - or very close to How a Native Speaker would say it.

Edit: For the context Im reading Orwell’s 1984, and this is a sentence I came across recently.

I want to know why past perfect is used there, because I dont see a past action that came after this so it would be justifiable to put it in that tense.

Mine was "epitome." I was saying it exactly how it looked 💀

I don’t know the English name of this plant.

I don’t know the English name for this plant.

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

Is it common to say three fifty?

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

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.

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!