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Hello Hamoody, Welcome to the forum. I think people were a little bit daunted by the number of questions here, you might get more response if you ask everything separately. let's start with days, months and year. on a day (on Wednesday) but in a month or year (in September, in 1987). i am on...

Kooyeen wrote:You wanna know what I found most difficult?Well, the worst thing is not knowing what to say or write... Here's an example of what could happen inside a learner's head:So, tell me... or is it "say me"? umm... so, tell me, what's your problem exactly? umm, or is it "what's exactly...

A lot of interesting points of view. Reproductive choice is a difficult conversation to have, probably in any language. There is a lot of interesting vocabulary associated with the subject, if you're learning English.The bottom line, in my opinion, is that women are not baby-making machines for...

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Hi, this is another common problem, it's difficult to choose between singular and plural sometimes. Anyway, I learned that in cases like the ones you asked about, plural nouns are much more common. Example: Elephants have a trunk... 27 results, on Google (real number of results) Elephants...

I agree with Englishuser that a lot depends on how good your command of the language is. Also, a lot depends on what particular skills you want to achieve or practise while in an English-speaking country. I myself have never been to Malta but I've been to Canada and Britain. Canada is a very...

I like your poem very much, especially the image of " Since my eyes decided to take a walk along the street, I can't hardly concentrate...". It reminds me a famous reading of our romantic poet in the revolution of poem in my country with the sentence that I've learnt by heart:" Some kinds of...

Anonymous wrote: I'm Anon2. This thread is finally moving into interesting territory for the teaching/learning of English. What Anon1 seems to be implying is that NO categories can be assumed to be cross-linguistically valid. For instance, this comment: "Whereas when you claim that Thai...

I'm Anon2. This thread is finally moving into interesting territory for the teaching/learning of English. What Anon1 seems to be implying is that NO categories can be assumed to be cross-linguistically valid. For instance, this comment: "Whereas when you claim that Thai nouns are invariable...