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I'm from a village in Yorkshire, but before you ask I don't have a typical Yorkshire accent. I live in Glasgow now and work in the wind industry. I've always loved foreign languages, but found them very difficult to learn. I can usually learn to read and write pretty well, but I have difficulty with speaking, so I'm looking for opportunities to practice with native speakers who have a lot of patience! I'd like to improve my Portuguese before I go back to Brazil and maybe my French too. I have friends in Japan, so I'd like to learn some Japanese too. I'd like to help others learn English too and have some experience teaching English as a foreign language as a volunteer in Brazil, which I hope will help.
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    There are several plays on words. Firstly pupil can mean the centre of the eye, the hole that lets light in and that looks black, or it can mean student. Iris can either be the coloured part of the eye, a flower, or the name of a person. Then with the text added to the original image cornea is also a part of the eye. If a joke is corny it could also be described as cheesy or "a dad joke". It's probably not very funny or original. Cornier and cornea would be pronounced the same so they've used cornea in place of cornier.
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    October 28, 2021
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    October 27, 2021
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    Don't know about the first one, I've not heard of a teeterboard, but the grammar doesn't look right. Second and fourth are fine, but I would say a drunk person sways rather than swings.
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    June 18, 2015
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    You could say "Don't give up."
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    June 17, 2015
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    I think that all are technically correct but the second in each pair sounds more natural to me.
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    June 16, 2015
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    I want to learn English because all of my friends can speak English except me. I feel very ashamed when I can't speak perfectly.

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    June 14, 2015
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    Can you help me please?

    Hi everyone. I'm Esra from Turkey. I'm a clinical resarch coordinator. English is very important in this profession because all documents and data system programs are English, so I have to learn more English but I'm sick of grammar books. I need to try a new method. I cannot go abroad because of economic problems and conditions, so ı need your help. Actually, my knowledge of English is not very bad. I can understand and speak simple sentences, but this is not enough.

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    June 14, 2015
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    Although it could mean to start a relationship of any kind I think it would be mostly used when referring to a business relationship as it's quite formal sounding language.
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    June 14, 2015
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    Maybe your confusion arises from the fact we would say that we translate from one language to another. But in your example I believe the correct word is 'as'. It sounds most natural to me, but perhaps you could use 'to', you would be understood if you did.
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    June 14, 2015
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    I think there might be circumstances where you could use "in the following year" or "in the past year" and it's the word next that is making the first example sound slightly odd. However I also think that the subtle difference would be that you would use "in the" for a single event rather than something that happened gradually through the year like the sales increase you have as an example.

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    June 14, 2015
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