Community Discussions
Is it 'a unique' or 'an unique'?
English is my second language. What I learned in books, we can use "a" before a consonant and "an" before a vowel. But I noticed that many native speakers often use "a unique" instead. Can you explain it to me?
Is my accent understandable and do I sound gay and have a lisp?
I always get comments that I sound gay/twink and that I have a lisp so if you guys were to be honest is this true? I don't really care about these comments either so its all good to be blunt, I was just curious. Also as I lived in Los Angeles my whole life, is my english understandable? if you couldn't understand my accent im 16 years old and I'm asian american, specifically korean-american. [https://voca.ro/1n7Lcxve10vb](https://voca.ro/1n7Lcxve10vb)
How to learn the English language like a native speaker?
Hello guys, I am living in Germany and I left the school last year and I enjoyed over 12 years education and I don’t use the opportunity of the English lessons. I mean, I learned the basics of the English language, but I dream is to speak English like a speaker every day I think it’s not possible. What can I do? Is there anyone who started with the language from zero and speaking now on a very high level which methods can I use? I need to very clearly answers. Thank you very much.
Question - how do I begin to understand the language of Shakespeare (and English poetry at large?)
For almost 15 years, I almost exclusive use English in all my walks of life, yet I simply have never read Shakespeare (and other poets) because their language is simply incomprehensible to me, and I don't understand where I can even learn it (dictionaries don't help). Examples: 1) *your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty* (what is "to admit discourse to sth"?) 2) *Could beauty have better commerce than with honesty?* (what is "o have better commerce than with sth"?). And so on. Literally every line is such that I simply cannot read. Is there a translation into simple English? Or is nobody interested anyway if he can't read that text already?
Is the sentence "where them girls at" grammarly correct?
I was listening to the song "where them girls at" and was wondering if it's the correct sentence
Why is this question considered ‘awful English’?
What is the proper way to ask that same question?
Test for taiwanese highschool teachers.
How hard are these words for regular native speakers? I only recognize a few lol. Btw, is it normal that when I do these questions, I might not necessarily know what a word means, but I just know it's the correct answer and what it makes the sentence mean?
Shouldn't it be "stands"?
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Do those sentences depend of the context?
I understand that the second sentence implies that the father die and thats why the action doesn't continue (by the meme of course). But native speakers automatically think like that or you would say that u need more context and so you think that the father did something and that's it? I'm trying to understand if the meaning by sentences like that (without the image of course) could be misinterpreted
Five alternatives to 'because'
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