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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.
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.
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.
- Utility companies in New Jersey are reporting that roughly 6,500 customers are still without electricity
- When I first started doing these fashion things a couple of years ago, I didn’t feel like a lot of my friends and family were around. Now, everyone kind of is.
- I wanted it to be sort of tropical-esque
- Je suis travailleur indépendant
- 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
- Les langues m'ont fasciné depuis longtemps
- j'ai une passion pour la musique
- Truly useful ideas don't arise from out of the ether or through fancy techniques
- Obama was acutely aware that a one-off strike, could possibly have served as a convincing brush-back pitch
- The company navigates largely uncharted waters for traditional economic strictures
- Shervin, the youngest of three, would read for hours in the bathroom, a quiet oasis in his home.
- the difference between an intrepid moon shot and a misguided fantasy project often hinges entirely on the daredevil behind it