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Cool Breeze wrote: Liveinjapan wrote: I don't have very much in the way of free time.I don't have very much of free time. The structures of the above sentences are the same, so the object of each sentece is 'much', right? The structures are the same up to the word much. After that, the...

Liveinjapan wrote:I don't have very much in the way of free time.I don't have very much of free time. The structures of the above sentences are the same, so the object of each sentece is 'much', right?The structures are the same up to the word much. After that, the second sentence jars in my...

Hi Vincent Teo,You might want to spent some time on these websites. I think they are particularly suitable for beginners as they cover quite a range of topics and are fairly easy to understand. http://www.learnenglish.de/ (the grammar part is speacially worth studying - it helped me a lot...

Kooyeen wrote:I understand what you want to say, that "input/output' principle, but I want to say that it doesn't work the same way it works on a child. That principle starts to work once you are already at an intermediate level and you are able to understand what people say when they're...

Medusa171 wrote:Hello, my name is Michelle, and I am a 17 year-old girl from the United States. I am a native English speaker, and have always wanted to help someone improve their English. I can help with most things, from grammar and spelling, to conversational English, to slang and...

Well, compared to French, German or Spanish, English grammar can be simple to some extent (English grammar may become complicated at an advanced level). However, an effective way to learn English is to repeat what other people say. Use expressions you've heard before and also, if you find any...

Hi, This is an expression that has a number of meanings that are rather general in nature, and dependent on the context. eg to annoy someone by rebuking repeatedly as you suggest for a woman to do the above to a man, thus figuratively emasculating him, reducing his masculinity, perhaps by...

How To Learn English ? PART 2 Learning a language is mainly based upon self-struggle. Maybe the only thing to be done by the teachers on this subject is to advise a method. Because, in a sense, language cannot be taught but learned. So, it’s suitable that the students are shown ways to...

People when start to learn English don't understand that some expressions, depending on the context, can vary of meaning. Instead of answer in doubts, people, in this forum, can ask for further information about the context; but it can bring some difficults; sometimes the person is in a hurry for...

Nona The Brit wrote:And teacher Brian...what do people in Scotland, Wales and Ireland speak? That is exactly the point I am making! By simply using the expression 'native speaker of English' the jod advert was not clear. One of my students had been speaking Chinese-English for many years....