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I am a full time teacher/tutor, but my academic background is in law. I studied Spanish throughout secondary school and college, and after I finished law school, I began studying French in earnest. I have been working on French for a long time now, but I still suffer from anxiety about speaking. I also speak a little bit of Serbian, because my husband is from Belgrade. Now that our daughter is old enough to correct my grammar in Serbian, I am trying to make sure I am consistently improving my Serbian as well. I have just begun learning Irish as a way to deepen my connection to my family's past.
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Lellah
Serbian
Apr 4, 2019
Utopli se, neka ti Zora skuva čaj i ozdravi brzo.
Elisabeth
French
Dec 12, 2018
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Lellah
Serbian
Dec 12, 2018
Odličan čas, Patrik! Sjajno urađen domaći zadatak. Na ovom času, kao i uvek, Patrik i ja smo se dotakli nekih veoma zanimljivih jezičkih nedoumica. Sutra je tvoj gratis "Novogodišnji paket!" čas, ne zaboravi. :-)
Lellah
Serbian
Dec 5, 2018
Zora ima četiri godine i zna sve. Zna da njen meda ne voli limun zato što je kiseo, zna da maca kaže mjau, zna da golub ima dve noge i da tigar jede meso. Dok je crtala šarenu patku, ja sam imala priliku da joj postavljam razna pitanja, a Zorin izbor reči i njeno znanje su me zaista iznenadili. Na kraju nije htela da završimo čas. :-)
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  • Answered
    To "get into" something is to take an interest in a topic. Other sentences that would use this same phrase would be things like: - After watching Titanic, I got into making historical costumes. - I can't really get into the Marvel fandom no matter how hard I try; it just doesn't interest me.
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    February 22, 2022
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    “When I listened to music in my university dorm, I used to wear (headphones) so that I (would) not interfere (with my) other roommates. It was considered rude to play music out (loud).”
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    February 20, 2022
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    I called the apartment manager. (More often, I think we'd refer to that as "the management company" or "the property manager.") You could use "to do as he said" but it would sound more formal than you probably want.
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    February 7, 2022
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    The first one would be asking someone else about their own dinner plans (not including you). The second is asking about dinner plans the speaker is included in. If it was already understood between the speakers that they're eating together, then these can be used interchangeably. Otherwise, they can be used to mean those two different things.
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    February 7, 2022
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    Not exactly. As a native speaker, referring to English as "textual" doesn't make a ton of sense. Some things you might be meaning there would be "text-based" or "grammatical" or "focused on grammar" or even "theoretical." Whereas the YouTube English you might be referring to might be more easily compared to those things by being called "functional" or "practical" or "focused on everyday usage" or "useful."
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    February 7, 2022
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    These terms come from specific American subcultures, so understanding them requires understanding the subcultures they come from. "Dragging" someone is publicly calling someone out (identifying their flaws, insulting them). It is often used in a playful or hyperbolic way among friends. If a friend lightly criticizes another, a third observing friend might say "OOH DRAG HIM." This is popular among black women, gay men and drag queens. Roasting someone is a bit more broadly used, but it is used to denote that someone is being playfully but harshly criticized. A "roast" might refer to a comedy segment where a public figure is honored by being publicly ridiculed by comedians. Everyday internet users might feel "roasted" if they're made fun of or criticized on the internet.
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    February 7, 2022
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    Alternative, he could be "giving you the cold ________" which body part?
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    February 6, 2022
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    The big question here is whether these words are describing "your points" - (ask "can points be clear points? maybe. can points be effective points? probably not.) or are these words describing how you "make" your points (can you make points clearly? yes. can you make points effectively? also yes.). As discussed below, that means that the words you're looking for are adverbs (modifying the verb make) and not adjectives (modifying the noun points).
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    February 6, 2022
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    A reader or a listener in English will probably understand what you mean, because English is full of idiosyncratic/metaphorical usages like this. These types of usages are very fashionable right now - turning nouns into verbs, using nouns more metaphorically/figuratively. However, I suspect the usage that is more common would be something along the lines of "find a PATH from Topic A to Topic B," which would be easily accepted as normal speech. A pathway refers to something like a corridor or trail, so if you were describing a sequence or a series of steps that needed to be taken to get from one point to another (figurative or literal), then pathway would work well to describe that linear movement (again, whether literal or figurative). In general, English is very forgiving of people using words in new/different figurative contexts, so when in doubt, I say go for it. It will likely only make you sound MORE fluent rather than LESS to use words in creative contexts for which they're not designed. (I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but it really is a very modern trend in English, especially among people in the business community, to make up new uses for words and then try to pass them off as totally normal.)
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    September 21, 2019
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    To major in something is to "specialize" in that area during your undergraduate studies. You'll also hear people talk about "changing my major" which means that they switched specialization/focus at some point. We have only a few types of undergraduate degrees: bachelors of science and bachelors of art are the two most common. You'll see those degrees awarded as "Bachelor of Science in Microbiology" or a "Bachelor of Arts in Political Science" which identifies the major, or specialization, of the graduate. 

    For more advanced degrees people will not say that they majored in something like "law" but instead they will say something like "I went to graduate school for [discipline: eg, law/microbiology/business/etc.]." 

    In regular conversation, you'll also hear people joke about what someone majored in. "He must have majored in sleeping in." or "She majored in video games." It is meant to convey the idea that people spent a lot of time doing something OTHER than studying. :D

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    December 12, 2018
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