By Regards, Conversations

Re: taking out the windows of the car

Hi Ant222, My English skill is not in the “grammarian” class but I will give it my best attempt to explain it. It may not may not be agreeable with the experts. In many instances during casual conversations, we can bet by with simple past tense and no one will flag you for errors. However, to...

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Hi, What about when you end a conversation with something like, "It's been good to see you again, Jack. Please give my best to Doris and the kids. I'm sorry they couldn't come on this trip with you," or "So, you're going to the San Diego office? If you see Sandra...

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

What about when you end a conversation with something like, "It's been good to see you again, Jack. Please give my best to Doris and the kids. I'm sorry they couldn't come on this trip with you," or "So, you're going to the San Diego office? If you see Sandra Evans...

Re: How to improve fluency

Hello - Here are some tips if it helps. Firstly, do speak more slowly as this gives you time to think and makes you easier to understand. Ask 'how' questions so you don't have to formulate complex grammatical questions. This is very useful especially in informal conversations e.g....

conversation: mistakes

Dear teachers, Would you please help me correct this sentence? He has an appropriate knowledge and way of thinking that helps him have a sensible conversation. These are my views: vocabulary: a) is "appropriate" wrong here and should be replaced by "sufficiant" ? b) is...

Follow up email after meeting / conversation

Dear teachers and friends, I just have a meeting with another department and there are some questions that need to be clarify thru the email. Here is my draft. Your comment and advice on this matter would be very much appreciated. For your information, ABC is the name of our...

Just short question

Hi my EF friends, Please, just one little question. Two persons are speaking with each other. Person A: Why didn't you tell me this? Person B: Because...it's not like you wanted to talk about it anyway. It sounds like an easy conversation, but I'm a little confused about the...

Re: Closing a letter / post

Nothing is required or expected on forum posts, and personally I find such closings rather presumptuous-- as if the conversation were at an end, and the poster were having the final say.However, many otherwise respectable posters do use closings, and they seem to run the gamut from Ta to Yours in...

Re: ancestry

I'd also find it a bit odd to ask this in a business situation. If you were in a friendly informal conversation it might be a bit different. However - generally speaking we only ask about people's background if they have an accent that is obviously 'foreign'. Then you can say...

Re: Speaking with native speaker

Hi Avangi, I absolutely agree with you. That's exactly that problem. Interesting is that sometimes native speakers have a problem to speak even between themselfs. I have a pen friend fromNorth Virginia, who works there in reality company, and he told me that his supervisor has sometimes...