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'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 affectionate ...

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 of the blog English…

How to get rid of accent in English

English teachers all over the world never tire of arguing that there is no need to be shy about your accent. But this does not mean that you cannot improve yourself or try new things. If you've always wanted to speak like Lady Mary of Downton Abbey or Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, go for it! Choose with which ...

The magic of Simple English: how a Russian-speaking IT specialist got a job at Amazon without good English

If you are preparing for an interview and are worried about your English, then this information may make your life easier. An IT specialist spoke on Habr about his experience working at Amazon without special knowledge of English. Andrey Stolbovsky has worked at Yandex for the last 5 years, and...

How to quickly improve your English: tips from professionals on what is really important in the language and what you can 'score' on

Fluency in English is a skill that everyone needs in our time. And with the start of a full-scale war, it became even more relevant for Ukrainians, because someone had to move abroad, and someone had to look for remote work in foreign companies. How to study...

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! ”...

English twin words with different meanings: how to distinguish them and not get confused

Homonyms—the same word with different meanings—are something that can make English difficult. How to distinguish them from each other, says Grammary. What is the same word with different meaning? Homonyms are defined as the word...

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 verbatim: they can have additional meaning or completely unexpected meaning. Bright Side got interested in the intricacies of spoken English and compiled a list of the most common phrases that ...

Effective Tips: How to easily memorize 100 new English words per week

It is quite easy to start learning English, but many people face vocabulary problems. Someone just learns new words, constantly repeating them, someone creates some kind of schemes. Lifehacker has collected the most effective tips on how to learn 100 words a week to ...

12 songs that you can learn to speak English

One of the most effective ways to learn a language is through songs. We are not talking about "influencing the subconscious" or other magical ways of remembering. But in order to better understand spoken English and learn to speak like a real Englishman, songs will come in handy best of all. How does it work…

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