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Is this true?
I feel like a strong background feels a bit off. Is there a better approach? For context, it’s for a junior high interview and that paragraph is supposed to show he is great at lego building and even won a prize with that. Accepting any criticism if thats a stupid question 🥲 English is not my mother tongue
Would this be a correct use of the word comprise?
> I should mention that this show requires attention to the screen since it comprises important moments that won’t be spelled out with words. My aim is for the verb to emphasize that it’s inextricable part of the story and not just something that is included.
Advice to learn english
I try to write this post with my English without any help. So, I have 24 years old and I try to improve my English. I saw I can’t progress and I don’t know what method to try to really have succes. After I finished high school and I started college I was a b2, that wrote on my bachelor degree. Do you have some advices for me to progress? anything to try after work or on during the work I don’t know. Thank you !
What can you say about my accent
https://voca.ro/1aOIMNlA6cex What can you say about my accent Two thing in particular that I am worried about, 1. Am I clear 2. Do I sound annoying .
That vs If
Just heard a native speaker say 'We're professionally trained in assessing someones capacity to make decisions. _I don't know that the average person knows how to do that_'. I've come across this before, where 'if' seems to be replaced by 'that'. My question is, would this generally be considered correct? Is it informal? (For context, this particular speaker is from somewhere in the US south, but I think I've heard people from different regions say it as well).
Question about smokin
Can I say that I cave back to smoking? Or is it incorrect
what does pull this move mean?
https://www.instagram.com/share/BAH8l3N77z i understand other words but i dont get what ‘pull this move‘ means
on which to fall
Does the following work? Snow is a forgiving surface **on which to fall**.
Mouth Movements
On YouTube, almost every American English pronunciation channel uses exaggerated mouth movements. For example, when pronouncing the long “o” vowel, their lips look like they’re about to kiss someone. I tried that and noticed that my pronunciation sounded better. So why don’t native speakers do it? I live in the U.S. and see hundreds of people speaking every day, and none of their mouth movements look like that. Yet, they sound way better than me. In fact, most of their lip movements aren’t even that noticeable. I don’t get it.
Daily idiom: to lose one's head
to lose one's head >!become irrational!< Examples: - During the exam, he lost his head and couldn't remember anything he had studied. - The politician lost his head during the debate and made a series of embarrassing gaffes.