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I'd like to ask native English speakers:
When you meet a word that you don't understand, what will you do? I want to figure out it's useful for the English learners to memorize a lot of words?
How do pupils address a female high school teacher?
Especially a middle aged, married one. Ideally, I am looking for the term in the UK (but in the US is also fine). I understood that the term "Miss" was used in the past, is this still used? In my own language, it doesn't feel right to call a married, middle-aged lady a "Miss".
As a native speaker, how did you manage to memorize all these preposition pairs
Did you learn any rules behind it like when to use for , at and etc, like be capable of and be clever at, while there seems to be no universal rule for each one of them.
Chat? Why's "an" here? Shouldn't it be like that only if the next word's first letter is vowel?
Translated from Russian. I thought we use "an" only if the next word's first letter is vowel (like a, o, i, e, y, etc). Is it translator's problem or I'm stupid?
Difference between Grey and Gray.
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Is the word "men" here a common slang to say instead of "guys"? Do native speakers say that?
I know that it's common to informally adress your friend or acquaintance as "man", but I have never seen and heard it said in its plural form to address a group of friends/colleagues. Do native speakers say so at all? Source/Book shown in the screenshot: "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis.
What is the hardest English dialect for you to understand?
I am curious, what dialects/accents do English learners find the most difficult to understand? I am a native speaker but the Baltimore accent is difficult for me to understand. What about you guys?
will you literally say 99.99% word by word？Or there is a usual abbreviation ？
For example, In this picture, Will you really say: I would say there is a Ninety-nine-point-ninety-nine-percent chance that this was an honest mistake........
Any viable alternatives for “have a good appetite”?
As someone in whose native tongue a single word is used as a meal-related courtesy — “have a good appetite” sounds unbearably bulky. I speak two more languages, and in both of them it’s either a single word, or two short words — not four with one of them being a-ppe-ti-te. Google set me up with stuff like: - *happy eating!* – too childish, - *chow down* – rude?, - *eat hearty* – sounds like something grandma would say, - *savor your food* – instruction to a child?, - *enjoy your meal* – acceptable. Are there any other alternatives?
"Loves to eat" and "Loves eating". What's the difference?
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