'Sugar' and 'angels': Affectionate Calls Most Commonly Used by Americans

In many couples, families or even groups, instead of using names, people often call each other different nicknames: baby doll, fish, or something more rare and funny. Not without this in the United States, writes FluentU. Often people use ...

Not only 'good': 4 meanings of the word good that will be useful in communication

We know that good is “good”. But when it comes to conversation, we hear this word used in sentences that sometimes become incomprehensible. And all because it has many more meanings than we know. Author…

Enriching our speech: 45 English analogues of Russian proverbs

Let's imagine a typical working day in an American office, Englishdom suggests. During the working day, you can hear a lot of funny phrases. For example, a top manager might reassure their subordinates like this: “It's no use crying over spilled milk. Today we can still achieve great success! ”...

Important tax terms to know in 2024

The proverb says: the only inevitable things in life are death and taxes. This saying dates back to 1716, and the word “tax” itself has a long history and means “a sum of money required by the government.” The word comes from the Latin taxare: “blame, charge” and dates back to around the XNUMXth century. WITH…

15 tricky English phrases that many people misunderstand

Sometimes you just want to turn on the internal dictionary and translate a seemingly simple expression from English. But there are such popular phrases that simply cannot be translated literally: they may have additional meaning or completely unexpected meaning. Bright Side got interested in the intricacies of spoken English ...

Who or whom: a simple trick will help you determine when to use which word

In casual messages to friends or conversations with colleagues, it may seem that it is not so important to use perfect grammar, and the word who sometimes gives the exchange a formality that is inappropriate for the situation. But there are still many cases when perfect grammar is necessary...

Russian English: subtle mistakes in speech that betray immigrants

It is impossible to learn English perfectly. But people from post-Soviet countries have their own mistakes, which will almost certainly make it clear to a foreigner that you are a Russian speaker. Moreover, the reason for these errors is quite simple - the habit of thinking in Russian. About 20 such errors and...

Snickers, siblings and the Alexander: 20+ secrets of English breaking language stereotypes

Linguist, teacher of foreign languages ​​and cultures Kristina Konstandenkova posts amazing facts about the English language on Twitter. Foreign languages ​​are her element since childhood, she prefers books and films in the original language. Interested in the history of the language and collects unusual facts about ...

Train, dinner and building: how Russians begin to speak after moving to the USA

The speech of Russians who have lived a little in America is noticeably transformed. People, speaking their native language, begin to insert English words willy-nilly or pronounce Russian words in the American way. Such a code language is jokingly called “Ruinglish” (“Runglish”), Amerussian girl writes in her blog on Yandex.Zen...

Why Russian speakers sound rude when speaking English, and how to fix it

Sometimes Russian speakers, speaking in English, sound very rude. This is usually due to the fact that they very literally translate phrases that are pronounced normally in Russian, but do not sound very good in English. On his YouTube channel, Justin shared four moments when Russian-speaking...

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