- 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
Arguments and debates
Be fluent while discussing, debating, defending and arguing. Master prompt reactions, interjections and crowd controlling phrases. For example: “If I could finish my sentence I would say…”, "It doesn't take a genius to work out that...", "The same could be said about..." or "Probably a silly question but is that..."
- A console that keeps up with gaming PCs
- What this shows is that ...
- the same could be said about java...
- Wise investors accept that they can't see the future and restrict themselves to doing things that are within their power. Principally this includes:
- If it’s sunny and 28C, that’s a bit too much for me, one Calgarian said. “Honestly — I get hot, really fast — and I just prefer colder temperatures
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 ...
News language
Word expressions used in news
- Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.Plato
- One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. William Lowe Bryan
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”― Nelson Mandela
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”― Augustine of Hippo
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”― Mahatma Gandhi
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
- Je ne comprends pas bien
- S’il vous plaît, parlez plus lentement et plus fort
- Qu'est-ce que vous avez dit?
- Je connais aussi un peu du taïwanais, du cantonais, de l'espéranto
- Ma langue maternelle est l'anglais, et je peux parler le mandarin, le français, le gallois, l'irlandais, l'allemand, l'espagnol, le japonais
Proficiency Idiomatic expressions- Collocations
We need to learn phrases- lexical chunks to be a native-like speaker. I wanna share useful phrases with you all.
Online chat language
Simplified English used in online discussions and chats. The grammar? Don't sweat it!
- Love this tool - it's potentially going to save me a massive headache!
- The best sharing buttons i've ever witnessed. The sheer simplicity is mind blowing.
- Hey buddy, stop marketing your Giphy clone everywhere. It's kinda annoying
- These days Telegram has taken over instead
- Google chat time has been dwindling and it took a nosedive when third-party support was crippled