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I have always been a poor speller, so I have a handy dictionary app

Je connais aussi un peu du taïwanais, du cantonais, de l'espéranto

Do you study Spanish at school?

Basically you need both speaking practice and grammatical study to become fluent in another language

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I apologize for not getting back to you yesterday, I was out of the office all day.

I can get by in German

Je me débrouille en allemand.

pick up a new tongue

Peter tasted the wine (that) his mother bought for himPeter tasted the wine that/*() had cost only 12$.

"That" is a conjunction in this type of sentence. (In "the cat that jumped over the wall", it is a relative pronoun.) It is in general OK to leave out the conjunction "that" now and then, as long as no ambiguity arises.

The easy way to tell which is technically correct is to substitute he and him for who and whom, then rearrange the word order to see which sounds right.“Who were you speaking to?” becomes “You were speaking to he” — which is clearly incorrect.

I could barely utter the words

Defenderse en un idioma no es nada dificil, pero dominarlo, eso ya requiere mucho tiempo y trabajo

One of the greatest challenges of learning a foreign language is figuring out how to talk and write like an actual person

Emails and other online communication

Learn from real emails how to arrange a meeting, naturally asking for help or advice, requesting information, follow up communications like a human. How to open and close emails formally and informally. Imagine starting an email with “Sorry to be a pain, but can you…, ”Sorry for delay in getting back to you" or "Let me know if it works for you but no hurry"

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