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Time and Newsweek are good sources of standard current journalistic American English The vocabulary is neither too erudite nor simplistic and the idioms are generally current well known and useful If you wish to change to BrE you might try The Economist The content of all of these is primarily...

Hey there Hesham I m your neighbor from Israel Hope you ain t got a prob with that Much like you I m incredibly interested in being able to speak english as if it were my own mother tongue Generally I think it s very much possible However not everyone IMHO can do that I utterly think that only...

It always intrigues me that the waves of invasion that have contributed to the English language Latin Nordic Saxon French are considered to have enriched the language whereas American is thought of as an unwelcome invader which could potentially cause the language to disintegrate in front of us I...

I m Egyptian and very interested in English I m only 16 years and aim to speak English better than Americans A very praiseworthy aim However you should remember that all native speakers of English speak it perfectly and you cannot improve on perfection I expect you mean that you are looking to...

Hi Appuu Welcome to Englishforums A good way to increase your vocabulary is to read a lot If you have studied English at school level then you can start off by reading the newspapers everyday Always keep a dictionary handy so that you can look up meanings and even check out the pronunciations...

The basic problem is interference This is what we bring from L1 to the L2 situation It can be word order vocabulary misuse of cognates phonetics etc A few examples English speakers have problems with L2 because we reduce most unaccented syllables to schwa most other languages are much more...

true Budweiser as manufactured for the last 1000 years in the Czech Republic to be sold without risk

I m sorry but this initial post strikes me as very ignorant and as an American a tad offensive I would be curious to know if the original poster is a native speaker of English and why they feel so disgusted by any English variant Anyway it is true that Americans did purposefully change the...

Based on what I hear daily I would like to make a recommendation or two If you start with these first and master them expanding out into the additional meanings will be less of a problem than if you try to learn all possible meanings at once which can get somewhat confusing 1a Use must only for...

Looking at Bright Side It is natural that everyone keeps cherishing high expectations before starting off in a career but realizing them is not difficult for those who fulfill the criteria Quality isn t the word hackneyed Accuracy correctness accurateness exactness exactitude and precision the...