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I'm 50-something and I've been teaching myself English since childhood -- think I did a good job. I dig almost anything English -- but I'm also into "Americana", if you get my meaning. Married, no children. (But I do have a pet).
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    The most difficult thing when you try to learn any other language (different from the one you're accostumed to) is to understand that it IS different from your native language, and that you should "borrow" nothing from the language you already know. Ideally, you should stop thinking in your own language in order to really learn the new one.
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    August 4, 2008
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    This does not apply to English exclusively. When someone says 'you know' to the other he/she is chatting with, I think he/she is trying to impart to the other that there's a common knowledge between them, that they're pals, you know?
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    August 4, 2008
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    Unfortunately I haven't seen the movie, but I gather from the general tone that the father's job was in such a kind of place that it didn't matter if he showered at all.
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    August 4, 2008
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    Unfortunately I haven't seen the movie, but I gather from the general tone that the father's job was in such a kind o place that it didn't matter if he showered at all.
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    August 4, 2008
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    Unfortunately I haven't seen the movie, but I gather from the general tone that the father's job was in such a kind o place that it didn't matter if he showered at all.
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    August 4, 2008
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    Unfortunately I haven't seen the movie, but I gather from the general tone that the father's job was in such a kind o place that it didn't matter if he showered at all.
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    August 4, 2008
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    "Ladders" are implements for climbing; "metaphorical" is something said 'beating around the bush'; and "dust off" is to clean something in order to put it to work. So I think someone is saying that they (we) should shake the dust from anything they (we) may use to reach others heights -- something they (we) aren't doing yet.
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    August 3, 2008
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    This tale probably never happened but once I heard that, during the US Civil War, an illiterate guy who had the job of inspecting cargo used the letters O K to indicate that the things he surveyed were "Oll Korrect".
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    August 3, 2008
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    Most languages have idiomatic ways of being expressed that may sound strange to a foreigner (I'm not a native English speaker). To me the sentence is OK; the way it is constructed just enhances the immediacy of what's being said. I would even write "before they just have said it"
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    August 2, 2008
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    We can give it a try. I think we're about the same level of knowledge in English but the phrasal verbs did never worry me. Can you offer some samples?
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    July 29, 2008
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