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Informal e-mails in English
Writing without strict grading requirements :-)
Directions
Real and natural phrases for giving and asking for directions. Don’t be like a human statue if someone stops you on the street and, without stuttering, confidently help English speaking tourists. No textbook junk required.
- There's no need to tell me who you are; you're already showing me
- In order for you to insult me I would first have to value your opinion
- You should try eating some makeup so you can be pretty on the inside
- I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are
- You look like I need a drink
Talk about your start-up or app in French
Présentez votre start-up en français
- Très bel article sur la façon dont les personnes à mobilité réduites vivent leur vie amoureuse et sexuelle
- Il existe deux façons d’ajouter du contenu à son espace virtuel
- En quelques clics, il sera ainsi possible de mettre des mots ou des phrases de côté
- Phraseum, lui, se concentre sur les mots, les phrases et les expressions
- Il existe de nombreux services permettant de collecter des liens
- It´s normal to get cold feet before your wedding day
- Don’t pour cold water on the idea if you can’t cook because you can find recipes and TV shows anywhere for ideas
- Blanket of snow
- The only thing I want to do in the dead of winter is stay indoors and drink some tea.
- The problems that you see here now are just the tip of the iceberg. There are numerous disasters waiting to happen.
Eating and drinking out
Useful phrases for hanging out in pubs, cafés, dining out etc.
- Aunque soy extranjero, me apaňo en una ciudad desconocida. Me puedo defender en un idioma extranjero
- He pasado la noche en vela, estoy cansadísimo, lo siento
- Después de tomar la segunda cerveza sentí que se me subía a la cabeza muy rápido
- De buenas a primeras, empezo a pedir muchos chupitos
- Tengo que pedir hora a mi medico de cabezera
Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives
A grammar-oriented phrasebook focused on correctly using adjectives. Do you know that each adjective can be graded with using only proper combinations? For example: "extremely risky, utterly terrifying, super busy, quite tasty, incredibly elitist, relatively steady, deeply inacurate" etc.
- I’m 69 later this year — and I’ve had a pretty good run.
- But as utterly terrifying as Jaws has been made out to be, it’s also one of the most visually stimulating spectacles one could ever witness
- It’s hard. I am super busy the entire time
- The term ‘animal rights’ has become largely meaningless.
- And a bland, plastic, synthetic, universal can’t-tell-one-brand-of-coffee-from-another-brand-of-coffee by contrast makes life flat, uninteresting, and essentially uncreative.