Hello! Some more suggestions:- Listen to English Radio, especially the BBC World service, because it is good English and often at a slower pace than most English speakers talk normally. Also, can you watch English TV with subtitles

Mister Micawber wrote: As ever was = as there ever was. He is the handsomest man as there ever was. Taken as read = accepted as stated. My wife told me to get a job, and her ire was taken as read. Best wait for a BrE speaker,

Dear Ikia Shall and will are both valid forms, but shall is often now considered to be more formal, so many speakers/writers do not use it at all! As an emphatic word, shall is very good, but many would consider its use to be rather

Dear Coachpotato " I live on the outskirts and at night there's not public transport, my car is at the garage these days so I'll have problems/trouble/difficulties to get to the centre of the town ." The words underlined all have very

Dear Victor " high-pitched " is made up of two words, "high" and "pitch". Pitch in the sentence you have given means the sound frequency, the rate at which the sound wave is repeated. A dog-whistle is at such a high frequency ("high pitch")

Dear Diamondrg To " require " means that something is necessary or demanded. e.g. " Training to be a doctor requires a lot of hard work ." (Cambridge Learners Dictionary) To " imply " is quite different. It means to suggest or show something,

My2sense wrote: TeacherBrian wrote: ..... P.S. I have not read the whole thread because it is very long . If the writer has clarified the assumption inherent in the question, I should

A nap is a short sleep. "He likes to have a nap after lunch". To be 'caught napping', is either to be found to be having a short sleep when one shouldn't be sleeping, or when a person is surprised by being caught doing something, as if that

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

If I understand the arguments for evolution, we start first with self-replicating 'genetic' material, like RNA...say the scientists... Hmmm.... That seems a funny place to start! It seems that the hard part has already been done! And apparently