Ciao! First, here are the corrections to your note: I noticed, (noticed that) you are from Toronto, I've been there once befor. I've been in the US for almost a year now learning English. If you want to stay in touch with me, I think it

hi, I would like to hear some views from various parties regarding using english-L1 translation in teaching english lessons. Does it help students' understanding if a teacher is to explain english grammatical structures to his or her students?

'The idea of buying a house' 'The idea to buy a house' I'm not sure why; I'm still learning English grammar. 'It was' is not required, but omitting it changes the sentence into an exclamation that

Hi, both of yours are grammatically ok, in my opinion. Maybe I would personally tend to use the continuos tense and say something like "I hope to write like someone who's been learning English for a few years already".

Adding to PHilip's comment, the gerund form is more idiomatic and commom. Learning English is a long process, thus the time must be continual from past to present and perhaps into the future. I would say present perfect is a more

Thanks!! What if there is no "here", which I believe makes past tense relevant and acceptable?   Can I say "I came to learn English,not for other things." in self introduction (without being asked first)  just being

What about "I've come here to learn English, not for other things." ? Past tense sounds "remote", without current relevance.   But I think both are all acceptable?

Hi tanit, first thank you for correction, raely it is great start point. hh i want describe a something. in my country (Jordan) , there is several centers that learning English language and prepare the person to TOFEL ( i

Hi, I am beginning to learn english, so i am having troubles with the regular past tense -ed. Can someone recommend me a webpage where i can hear the pronunciation of verbs ending in ed? thanks in advance for your help.

Welcome to the Forums! We help people from all over the world with their English. Your method sounds like a good one. First, we encourage you to register. It is free! Then we can help you to recast a short story into different tenses, but we need