Using "do" in questions. Hi! I'm heartily greeting all english-speaking people. I have one question and ask to tell it for me. All textbooks about english grammar prescribe us to formulate present simple questions that way: Do you read books? Do you go to walk? I'm interesting, can I to ask the questions in the following form: Read you books? Go you to walk? I have read in one plase that such form can use in a colloquial. Is it true?

Interesting modern way to learn a language - a network computer games When I and my contemporarys were schoolboys, computer games were on the Spectrum, which was loaded with a tape cassette. At the time all is differently. Players are in a general gaming world, they can talk each other, but they physically located in different parts of the planet. The technical progress. I found one guy's youtube channel, he is schoolboy and live in the USA. He have learned a russian language through a communication with his russian friends in computer games. Hi did it for 2 years. Alas, I dont play computer games and have no time to do it :) But if you are computer game player, you can combine a business with a pleasure. If it will be interesting for you, his channel you can find on the YouTube by keywords "Pythongames channel" P.S. The result was extremely successful. But all has side effects - the guy swears like a drunken loader :)

A watchig and a hearing of a video with news Hello! I greet all members of the community! To learn words and to read texts – it is very interesting. But a language is means of communication and if I want to converse with other people I must understand that I hear. I had found a special web-site were is videos – fragments from news programs. There is also a text listing of a video. I tried to watch and to listen to the words that I have seen in the text. It was a complete failure. :) A speech was very fast, just a sound stream, and I did not hear a half of words that I have seen in the text. I have understood that newsprograms is not my level yet. I will try to hear more simple things :)

How to talk correct about animals? I greet all! In English all words – the names of animals is neuters. But I read what may to say about pets “he’ and ‘she’. It is really so? I see in a dictionary the word “she-wolf” what means a female wolf. Can I say similarly “she-cat” or “he-cat”? It will be correct or it is informal words?

My winter observations Hello! I will try to write something. The problem in English for me is what a spelling of majority words and their pronunciation is very different. In Russian almost all words are spell as pronounce. In German which I stood sometime in a scool, too. To memorize a word not mean yet can to write it right in English. To learn to write – I must to write myself. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V trough Google Translate – it is a wonderful thing but has a weakness: no help to memorize a spelling of words :) Here, in a plase were I live, is a winter. But outdoor is quite warm last week. From 0 by 5 degrees above a zero. It is unusual, abnormally warm for this time. A couple of weeks ago was a some snow and a frost. Children was joy, they played snowball. Then came the thaw and all snow melted. But for me a warm winter it is quite well. A warm winter mean I need not to get snow out of a way about my home, I spend less firewoods for a stove. A warm outdoor – it is comfortably for me. I can to heat engine of my car less than I would do it if a winter would be hard. But not all people like a winter like this. These persons who like a winter sport are not happy at all. They want to get a frost and snow to skate and to ski. Fishermans who like a ice-fishing wait impatienly a real frosty winter too.

If someone will have time to help to understand, thank you in advance

I greet all!

 

I learn English using different ways, I read articles on English sites including.
I am readind an article on
https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/11/17/can-pot-save-this-colorado-town
about the city Walsenburg’s authorities, who hopes to solve the financial problems of the city through the project for growing cannabis.
I understood everything, except the following paragraph:

 

"A lot of our clients were immediately priced out of the buildings or the indoor operations that we built for them because they were telling us to take a few hundred thousand dollars and block out a perfectly good environment and then take out another few hundred thousand dollars and recreate it," says Trani. "It didn’t take long for us to realize that the only reason people were growing indoors was prohibition."

 

I realized this so:

Сlients of company were growers of cannabis. They are grown their products in specially equipped buildings, but then it became unprofitable because of the high cost. Customers offered the company money for dismantling of equipment and installation on a new place, where production will be cheaper. Previously, they were grown indoor because it is only legal way of growing (<em>or growing was banned at all, then they acted illegally?</em>).

 

The text says “buildings OR the indoor operations”. Whay OR? It is my understanding that there is a building and inside someone makes some operations.

 

If someone will have time to help to understand, thank you in advance.

What mean "featured a piece" Hello! Please help to understand. Sentence: "The New York Times featured a piece on November 3 by foreign correspondent Adam Nossiter, writing from Béziers, France." If I understand all right, "featured a piece"="published an article". Or not?