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

pick up a new tongue

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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After four months of losses in a row

I can get by in German

Je me débrouille en allemand.

Weather wasn't on our side

Google chat time has been dwindling and it took a nosedive when third-party support was crippled

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

Travelling

Useful phrases that can help you make yourself understood in English while travelling. Do you know how an English native speaker would ask for taking a photo of themselves or how to answer a shop assistent if you are just looking? Discover phrases from real situtations such as: “Can I help you? Thanks, just browsing.”, ”Would you mind taking my picture?” or “Excuse me, are you from round here?”

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