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- One good set of textbooks you can work with is "Side by Side" by Molinsky and Bliss. This set of textbooks will drill you on correct conversational English. It's a lot of cartoons, but it goes from 0 to complex conversational English in a well worked out progression. Then, when you find a conversation partner, you will start from a more advanced place. You can often find them somewhere online for free.0 votedOctober 12, 20210
- You can probably use "dash into the brush" figuratively. You can use almost anything figuratively. (I'm an American) It doesn't sound like a very common phrase, but I might imagine someone saying or writing something like, "He dashed into the brush when the manager came around to check what everyone was doing."0 votedOctober 3, 20214
- 10 facts about me: 1. I am a kazakh; 2. I have studied english for many years; 3. I am a mechanical design engineer; 4. I am the father of two children; 5. I am married (wife is implied); 6. I am a thirty four years old; 7. I speak kazakh and russian fluently; 8. I play drums; 9. I love reading; 10. I have green-brown eyes.0 votedOctober 2, 20210
- Look into the textbook series Side by Side, authors Molinsky and Bliss. This series of textbooks (which you can find online in PDF) takes you from very basic to advanced conversational English through careful drills. It doesn't force you to learn grammar rules, but the authors use a carefully structured progression through more and more complex grammar. The illustrations show you what the meaning looks like. Then, as you find conversation partners, you will have the basic grammar worked out so you can practice from a more advanced place.0 votedOctober 1, 20210
- That might be something unique to your local cuisine. In English, it is pretty common for spice mixes like this to just be called whatever you call it in the language it came from, in this case, Portuguese. English shamelessly borrows words from other languages, so if you're giving a presentation on Brazilian cooking, for example, then define cheiro-verde (in relation to cooking) and use that term.0 votedOctober 1, 20210
- Depending on where you heard it, it might have been a line from African English. I had a roommate from Ghana for a few months, and he could speak perfectly standard international English, but when he talked to friends from home, he would switch over to a very different version of English, with words from Ghanaian languages incorporated into the conversation. I could maybe understand half of what he was saying.0 votedOctober 1, 20210
- If you really want to work on accent more closely, make sure to study some of the basics of the International Phonetic Alphabet. That way you can work on what you physically have to do with your mouth to produce the correct sound. A lot of accent training is getting your brain to "hear" the correct thing that your mouth is doing, and for your brain to put the two together: correct sound + correct understanding of what that sound means in English.0 votedOctober 1, 20210

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