Eating and drinking out
Useful phrases for hanging out in pubs, cafés, dining out etc.
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.
Tech issues
A few phrases about dealing with tech issues - in English.
- Over the past few weeks, our teams have been working around the clock to make important changes to make sure ads show up in the right place.
- I'll pass it on to the development team and it should be fixed in the next couple of days
- I've looked into this and it does appear to be a problem on our side
- Google chat time has been dwindling and it took a nosedive when third-party support was crippled
- We are aware of performance issues related to ...
Demonstration and explanation
Useful collocations while trying to describe or highlight issues or problems, explaining app functionality, giving tutorials etc. For example: "Common sense will tell you what...", "This one should be pretty self explanatory" or "Nice idea, if only there was..."
- Common sense will tell you what this word is
- This one should be pretty self explanatory
- For example, when sharing a link to a Buzzfeed recipe with a friend
- So, I'm going to show you a demo of a virtual reality film: a full-screen version of all the information that we capture when we shoot virtual reality
- And that’s about it — it’s basically a
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.
Hotel
This collection is about hotels and accomodation.
- 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
- 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