In Present perfect^x, Accents^x

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual,...

Thank you Amy! I was going to rebut the point that Kooyeen made. You have saved me from having to do that. Just another minor point I like to make…. In reference to the IBM sentence, whether he is still working for IBM is irrelevant. However, the tense offers an impression that he is no...

I guess you can say it in some circumstances: Policeman: "Where's your wallet?" You: "I don't have it, it's been stolen", the accent being on the result, that is you don't have your wallet.

I just realized about another difference: In Mexico we commonly use simple past instead present perfect used in Spain, example: Mexico: Ayer te llamé por teléfono. Spain: Que ayer te he llama'o por teléfono. By the way, the word que is frequently used.

Ladies and gentlemen, guys and gals, boys and girls ect … In fact I am not new here, I used to be a good reader here but I didn’t find the chance to be member here. So, here I am 28 year old a cool guy from Saudi Arabia living in the UK, London. It’ll be highly appreciated if I find a native...

As a teacher, my students have difficulty with tenses which don't exist in their language - for example, present perfect. Learning vocab is always a matter of memorising unfortunately, and jokes and colloquialisms are also very difficult. I sometimes feel like a really bad stand-up comedienne...