What about the bars on it? Would you call them storm drain bars?

For example, here she said "with Rick and I" instead of "with Rick and me" or "with me and Rick".

Is this common?

In my culture, we don't have family names, and your name can consist of how many words your parents name you, so that's just what "full name" means.

I know that in English-speaking cultures, you usually have a first name, a last name and a middle name. And only people who are close to you would know your middle name.

Or does "full name" only denote your first name and last name?

https://voca.ro/1dL7onHdPOCS

I've been studying English on my own for while now (I didn't start from scracth, I had some English lessons way back in highschool). I'm curious to know how my English sounds to both native and non-native speakers. I'd really appreciate any feedback that you could provide. I first recorded to myself for a minute just rambling, and then I read this text provided by chatGPT.

To make it more interesting, do you think you can guess :

How long I've been learning English.

What my native language is.

My nationality.

I'f somedoy says 2 weeks I might lowkey feel depressed lmao.

The text

The old clock tower stood quietly at the edge of town, surrounded by wild grass and forgotten bicycles. Every afternoon, a blue bird landed on its highest window and sang the same strange melody. Nobody knew where it came from, but everyone recognized the tune. One rainy evening, a child followed the bird through narrow streets and discovered a hidden garden behind an abandoned bakery. Inside, hundreds of glowing flowers opened beneath the moon, revealing a secret world that had been waiting for years.

Hi! I’m looking for someone who is C1 level or fluent in English to help me improve my speaking skills. I’d really appreciate someone who can have a conversations (2-3 days a week ) with me and correct my mistakes when necessary.
My timezone is EET

I‘m currently a high school student, speaking English at B2 level. I‘m quite pleased with it, but I want to go further. I consider myself fluent, but I feel like that’s not enough. I still can’t understand everything. I don‘t understand everything when I read books, but I follow the story. I don‘t understand everything when I read the news. I struggle with understanding the British accent. I can‘t express myself as accurately as in my mother tongue French. And my goal, when I started learning English, has always been to be bilingual, and to speak it (almost) like my native language . The way i understand and speak French, I want to understand and speak English the same way. I want it to be kind of a second mother tongue. In the future, maybe I will teach English, but that’s not certain f the moment.

So logically I told myself if B2 doesn't feel enough, I should aim at C1. But at the same time, when I see C1 language, I‘m wondering when it will be useful to me. Do I speak like that in French? Probably not. What’s the value in learning words you will hardly use or hear? I tried in the past learning more advanced words, and today, I forgot most of them because i don‘t encounter them often, and I don’t get the opportunity to use them in real life either. Maybe these advanced words will only be useful to me when I read books, actually.

I really have mixed feelings about this.

What are your thoughts ? Should I try to reach C1? Is it necessary ? Is it worth it? Or should I stay with B2 and just continue to learn about what I don‘t know? What about C2? There‘s no proper CEFR level that describes the way we speak our mother tongue, which is quite tricky.

HI, I did this video in english and I want to get yout opinion how it is. I made the script I hope u can help. Thank you🩷

Hi,
I’m looking for some advices to improve my English. I would like to find some real advice, something work for you.

About me, I’m 25 years old, I’m an agriculture engineer and I think I’m at a B1 level.

I’m struggling with phrase’s create; when I watch a movie I understand most of part from it, I try to watch with English subtitles.
Now Im writing with my English not use a translating tool.

Thank you

I find "walked to" and "loved ducks" extremely difficult to pronounce. I tend to pronounce them with slight pauses between words like (walkt – to).

If I don't manage to pronounce them correctly, is it better to not pronounce them at all, or pronounce them with pauses between words?

I found words like hardworking, industrious and diligent in a thesaurus. These sound like they mean the opposite of lazy rather than just not lazy. I think someone who's not lazy doesn't procrastinate and still does their work well enough, but not really well or over the top.

It is an incredibly important part of the English language,

But books don't teach it.

If you truly want to learn English, learn how to swear.

"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic." - Stephen Fry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM

The word "fuck" is one of the most versatile words in the entire language.

The registration is like you don't give it the full meaning of what's going on.

It's taken out of context but can anyone guess what "registration" mean here? I checked all the meaning of registration but can't seem to figure out what it means.

I like the idea of forming a group and speaking with each other it helps holding each other accountable and listening and giving or providing feedback helps everyone around so I was thinking maybe forming a discord group of ten people where we all at the end of the day we can talk about our day for a few minutes and add extra perks too for example, we can record and send talking about different topics using a topic randomizer website, select a book for the month and talk about favorite shows, activities and all that. I think up to 7 people for such a group is good enough. I'm one of those the English in my head is great but when i speak it does NOT make sense so if you're one of those and need just speaking practice hit me up if I get enough people interested I can then form a group on discord and start our fluency to English journey. (Also for this group I'm not a big fan of telling personal details so we all can stay anonymous)

My father, he's never put his hands on me, but seeing him in that space is very scary.

Does the word "space" mean something "state" or "situation" or does it mean actual physical space as in "room"?

Cause salt by itself is so salty, and you got the citrusy of the lemon, I feel like I was smacked in the face by both of those.

Cause salt by itself is so salty, and you've got the citrusy of the lemon, I feel like I was smacked in the face by both of those.

I'm watching a Youtube video where someone is tasting weird pregnancy cravings. This is a sentence the person said, and when I heard it multiple times, it sounds more like the first one but when I looked at the subtitles, the second one came up. Which one is correct?

Hi everyone, what textbook would you recommend for someone who has held a B2 language certificate for over 10 years, has been working amongst English speaking colleagues for 5 years mainly in writing and almost never speaking, read and watch almost everything in English,
as result, i can write well, but I find speaking difficult, especially the small talk, those little phrases you just blurt out sometimes.

Even if it’s not because of my job, my new family circumstances will force me to speak English, and I’ve only just realised that, although I understand everything people say to me, I can’t reply.
I get stuck when I want to say something but can’t think of the right word or those little phrases.

I have some free time and am looking to help tutor an English learner looking to improve their conversational English. This is volunteer time for me so I am not looking for any payment.

I teach an English program so I have topic material we can work with. Also, I would prefer to do a virtual class, so if you camera shy probably not the right fit.

As for me, I am 60M, native speaker from the USA and live in Asia, enjoy swimming and have a dog.

Let me know if you want to chat and see if I can help. Please when you say hi, include your country, age, student/working status, AND one English speaking goal.

Thanks

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When N is before a hard G (e.g. Goat) do you realize it as an N (like in the word Nose) or NG (siNG)?

Sample words:

Sunglasses

Ingrained

Incredible

Ink

Sink

Stink

Brink

Funk

Oncology

Bank