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Native English speaker from Yorkshire, England, currently studying in Scotland. Looking to share my English skills and improve my Mandarin Chinese on iTalki.
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    It means to show something, to make it obvious or to draw attention to it. So this character as maybe not been asked for ID when buying alcohol, or has been offered some product for older people, making it obvious that he is no longer young.
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    November 20, 2015
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    静夜思- 李白 床前明月光， 疑是地上霜。 举头望明月， 低头思故乡。 我非常喜欢这首唐诗。我是学生，我的大学离我的家很远。我不能常常见我的家。我想念我的妹妹。 Thoughts on a Still Night Li Bai Before my bed, the moon is shining bright, I think that it is frost upon the ground. I raise my head and look at the bright moon, I lower my head and think of home.
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    I like to "bite the bullet"- to stop delaying and tackle the unpleasant task. For example, "oh, you're just going to have to bite the bullet and do your taxes". 

     

    Also, "go down like a lead balloon", to express that an idea was badly recieved. We'd say "well, that went down well" if the idea was liked, so if it goes down "like a lead balloon", it goes down very fast, exactly like a balloon made of lead would. If you made a suggestion and no one liked it, you could say "well, that went down like a lead balloon" to try and break the tension. 

     

    to "put/throw a spanner in the works" is to mess up a plan- imagine a machine that is working, then someone throws a spanner (wrench in American English) inside it. The machine breaks, just like your plan. 

    (by the way, these are phrases that I'd use as a British English speaker). 

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    November 19, 2015
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    Your usage isn't quite correct, the proper expressions are: I'm talking ABOUT that subject. I'm worryING ABOUT that issue. I'm glad TO hear from you again.
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    November 19, 2015
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    Stomach is the proper word for the part of the body, the word that a doctor would use with you. Tummy refers to the whole abdominal area and is much less specific. It's a word that you'd only use with a child- "have you got a sore tummy". As an adult, if you went to the doctor, you'd say that you have stomach pains. However, your child might tell you that they have "tummy ache".
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    Yes, but it's not something that we'd say in everyday speech. It's a bit too formal for that.
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    November 19, 2015
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    The art is interesting
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    Sometimes in embarrassing situations, UK/USA girls giggle. So they're not laughing at the situation, they're giggling with embarrassment.
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    Write about my job

    I work for a company, I am a financial manager 
    mMy customers are in the UK, so iI must learn eEnglish.
    I need to write emails to them and speak to my UK's colleague UK colleagues.
    iI have a Philippines Filipino teacher, iI always talked with her, I can understand her if i know all the words. However, but i can't understand my UK's colleague UK colleagues, because of their accents.
    i think that there are many kinds of accent in the UK as my two UK's colleague UK colleagues have different pronunciation.

     

    Notes: 

    There are some small grammatical points to try to remember: always begin a sentence with an uppercase letter (A,B,C...), always put a space after a full-stop (.) or comma (,), the word "I" must always be uppercase. 

    Phillipines is the country, Filipino is the nationality. 

     

    Hope this is helpful! You're right, there are lots of different accents in the UK, it is very hard for English learners to get used to. However, we're very aware of this (sometimes, we have difficulty understanding speakers from other parts of the country), so if you don't understand and ask the speaker to speak a little slower and more clearly, they will understand and help you out. 

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    November 19, 2015
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