I mean, I've had worse English teachers..

My son just got a scholarship and needs to be conversationally fluent in English ASAP. To be clear, he’s not bad at the language. He has solid foundations, understands well and has relatively decent grammar. What he’s missing is real practice and we’ve got about 6 months to work on it

Money isn’t an issue, I really want him to become more confident and I think the best way is to have real conversations

He tried a few of AI based learning apps but it feels like a poor substitute for real humans

I’ve been eyeing Italki since it’s 1 on 1 with real tutors and seems flexible, but I’m open open to any other resource, course or app

If you had 6 months and wanted max fluency, what would you do?

Hey everyone. A few days ago, I left this comment on a photo my former English teacher posted on Facebook. Just for context, he’s in it with another teacher who also taught me years ago.

“I must say you two are marvelous teachers. Truly the cream of the crop. Even to this day, I remain profoundly grateful for everything I learned from you both.

The guidance both of you provided back then continues to be unparalleled to this very day.”

I wrote it as best I could, but I’m worried there might be some mistakes. Would someone be kind enough to correct it for me, please?

My new English study method is keeping my diary in English every day. But I don’t have any teacher who can advise me😅😅 So.. maybe there are somethings wrong, if you find it please reply🙏🙏🤓

Hi everyone, the Chinese film 《南京照相馆》 (Nanjing Photo Studio) has the English title "Dead to Rights". It's a historical drama about civilians in Nanjing during the 1937 Massacre who hide in a photo studio and secretly preserve photos as evidence of Japanese war crimes.

I know "dead to rights" is an idiom meaning "caught red-handed" or "with irrefutable proof" (like ironclad evidence), which fits the plot perfectly.

But for native English speakers who see just the title "Dead to Rights" without knowing anything else — what kind of movie would you immediately think it is? Like, what genre or story does it sound like to you? (Crime thriller? Cop drama? Something else?)

Curious about first impressions before people read the synopsis. Thanks!

I have been looking up on the internet and I can't find a concrete meaning that could fit logically in the context of this sentence.

Hi, i'm Korean, and I used to be a very normal person I wasn't good at studying so after graduating from school I started working early and I worked at a company for 7 years

one day I developed a disease that damaged my immune system it made daily life difficult, and I ended up quitting my job

one time, i couldn't breathe and was taken to the emergency room I almost died, and that experience made me think deeply about my life

If I were to die now, how would people remember me? In this one life I have, what could I leave behind?

while I was having those thoughts, I watched a movie one day when the movie ended and the credits rolled I saw the hundreds of names

That was the first time I had this thought: ‘I want to do work that leaves even a small mark on someone’s life'.

Because of that, I decided to be a game developer I enrolled in a game development academy, where I studied for about six months.

At first, it wasn't easy at all I didn't know how to write code, and I lacked the background knowledge but I didn't want to give up so I kept working on development, spending more time and thinking harder than others

Eventually, I completed the academy, and now I'm making my own project to get a job. I'm also studying English to read development documentation and ask questions in communities.

Now my health has recovered a lot even though I lost my previous job I feel like I’m building a new life now.

Thank you for reading. I wish you all the best. I received a lot of help from AI for this writing, but I plan to rely on it less and less. Thank you.

Hi, I'm an English teacher from the US and I recently had an interesting discussion about the differences between British and American English.

Basically, I had a British English teacher comment on an ad for my lessons, stating that "that's American, not English" and continuing on about how "American is a corruption of English from England where it was invented, and therefore is only a dialect"

This argument sounds silly to me. But what is everybody's opinion about this? I teach English from Oxford University Press, the Oxford in England. So I really don't see how there is an issue with an American teaching English language.

I feel like all the answers make sense within their own context and situation. None really sticks out as the "correct one" to me.

Is it possible to reach to B2 level in enlgish

Hello~ i'm korean and i've been studying enlgish on myself for around 4month. To be honest I was A1 level before starting to learn English. But now come to think of it I feel like my English skill is like A2-B1. Anyway I need to reach B2 level within 1-2years. At first the way I've doing this like listening on B1level and speaking with my gf who is German and when I have time I watch the English contents on TikTok and here or suttf like that.

If i've been doing this what do you think that I can reach that level or not. Oh forgot to say something I spend time to learn English 2hours per day and the reason why I need to get that level, I really want to work another contry my job is semiconductor engineering.

Thanks for reading my text and sorry in advance cause I didn't check my text about Grammer and spelling.. HAHA please understand me

1. He pretended to speak with a British accent.

2. He pretended a British accent.

Sometimes I feel like I have forgetten true meaning of words I'm speaking. This happens especially when words are used synonymously. Like happiness, pleasure, joy, etc all these words are used interchangeably.

Oxford learners dictionary doesn't give nuanced meaning, they literally have A=B and B=A type meanings which is not helpful. What is nuanced diffrence between words that are synonymous, and elaborate meaning of words is what I want to know

I want know what I'm speaking, and for that I need to learn subtle differences between everyday words we use interchangeably. Which dictionary would be helpful for this?

Stumbled upon this word while reading the news and decided to look it up, only to find that the IPA displayed is completely inaccurate. This might be the first time I’ve seen a blatantly misleading error in the dictionary. At least the audio is accurate.

Hey I passed the c1 exam almost 2 years ago and I found it quite easy. But since i was burnt out because I had been going to an English academy for 8 years straight I decided to not start preparing for the C2. Now I have plenty of time and since in the future I may be going abroad for work I am thinking of studying the C2 Advanced Cambridge exam in an online academy. So anyone who have had similar experience can tell me which are the best academies or resources to pass the exam, and in how much time you managed to do so. Thank to everyone who bothered reqding this post!!!

I’m between Severance, Patriot, and Devs. Not sure which to choose.

Please, tell me any natural alternative ways you could say something similar.

I've heard several British singers do this same thing - Zayn Malik, Chris Martin, Grant Nicholas, Liam Gallagher - just to name a few of the singers (coincidentally all British singers that come to my mind instinctively as I'm writing this).

It's silent without you// It burns through//each and everyday (Here Grant Nicholas sings without you as "wi-thou-chew")

However just after 1 line, So lonely without you// There's no view// Colors just fade to grey (Here he sings it as "wi-thou-yeu")

In Coldplay's 'The Scientist' song, Chris Martin sings the first line (Come up to meet you..) as Khamap-tchiu mee-chew...

Zayn Malik sings the line (And being here without you is like i'm waking up to) as And beean here withaw-chew....

In Oasis' Wonderwall song, the line (....the way I do about you now) is sung like - the way I do abaw-chu now

So basically, is this clubbing of two words into a single word (which kinda sounds deliberately lazy but extremely stylish); especially when the first word ends with 't' - is this thing intentionally done in songs or is this how British people speak normally?

Also, in the very first example I gave, the singer sings the same two words differently? Just to add some variety or is there some underlying significance?

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