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Has anyone reached native level accuracy ?
I have been studying English for a very long time. I think I studied more than five thousand hours dedicated , thousand prive lessons , almost thousand class lesson in the UK ,a alot more self studying every resource on the internet claim that a thousand hours dedicated studying should have enough for C2 level but I feel I am far beyond C2. I don't know even it is archievable anymore , I am not sure if I can maintain my motivation a few thousand hours more before starting this journey I thought two years will enough but now I feel even a decade may not enough, my speaking pace almost as same as my native language and also my listening skilll good however I continuously do gramatical mistakes either on paper or while I speak I would like to hear , If anyone solved their language problem how many years did it take ? What did you throughout journey ?
Anyone please explain me the difference in these words: borough, district, neighborhood.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hyyx5w/anyone_please_explain_me_the_difference_in_these/
Is "own" classifying as a determiner or an adjective?
According to Cambridge Dictionary this meaning of own: "belonging to or done by a particular person or thing" can be "determiner / pronoun" but American Dictionary only "adjective" so why? Also I know that "own" isn't a determiner.
is there difference if i said “is it worth it to buy/buying it” and “is it worth to buy/buying it”
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hyvwoa/is_there_difference_if_i_said_is_it_worth_it_to/
confused about lines in Finding Nemo
1, It's basically in the beginning of the movie, just after Nemo's mother's death, poor mother. I racked my brain, checked different online dictionaries and even asked several AIs but still have no clue about what they're talking about. A fish can breathe out here. Did your man **deliver**, or did he deliver? — My man **delivered**. — It wasn't so easy. 2, It's clear that Dory has a bad memory. Marlin, Nemo's dad, got a bit inpatient with Dory. It seems to have nothing to do with conscience. Is this a joke? Dory: Are... are you my **conscience**? Marlin: Yeah. I'm your **conscience**. We haven't spoken for a while. How are you? https://preview.redd.it/cut2xijepbce1.png?width=2026&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f76ab3fc4467dd8563d837d77921910f29c8322 Really thank you.
Does my sentence sound natural?
"Calling what he did "a misstep" is downplaying the situation."
about my writing skills
hello reddit! i'm used to learn english in school, but that was 2 years ago, i'm not fluent, my pronunciation is not very well, most of my capacity is for writing in english but I don't know how I sound to a native. I'm B1 my brother knows more english than me, he went to an academy and plays csgo and practice english there lol. I'm too shy to speak with strangers, but I know that I need to practice with others... how can I improve my speaking skills furthermore to speak with others? how is my writing skills? I know I could sound better but I don't know how hehe. how can I sound more natural?
Am i just insane or are they pronouncing "forbenius"?
I even left a comment but people didn't listen it You can jump to 3:49 to hear the word
what's does "land" mean in this context?
I watched [Social Dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma) today. I'm not 100 percent sure what he is talking about. Basically, a guy in Google thinks that what he's doing or has done is wrong, so he wrote an email to his collegues. "And I sent this presentation to about 15, 20 of my closest colleagues at Google, and I was very nervous about it. I wasn't sure how it was gonna **land**." I can't figure out the precise meaning of "land". In this case, does is just mean how his colleagues will response or think about his presentation? Thank you in advance. It's a little messy, here is more context. \[Tristan\] It basically just said, you know, never before in history have 50 designers-- 20- to 35-year-old white guys in California-- made decisions that would have an impact on two billion people. Two billion people will have thoughts that they didn't intend to have because a designer at Google said, "This is how notifications work on that screen that you wake up to in the morning." **And we have a moral responsibility, as Google, for solving this problem. And I sent this presentation to about 15, 20 of my closest colleagues at Google, and I was very nervous about it. I wasn't sure how it was gonna land.** When I went to work the next day, most of the laptops had the presentation open. Later that day, there was, like, 400 simultaneous viewers, so it just kept growing and growing. I got e-mails from all around the company. I mean, people in every department saying, "I totally agree." "I see this affecting my kids." "I see this affecting the people around me." "We have to do something about this." It felt like I was sort of launching a revolution or something like that. Later, I found out Larry Page had been notified about this presentation -in three separate meetings that day-.
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