I'd like to have a better picture of the lexical variations across different regions for this thing. Thank you very much.

For example in the question "Isn't this my house?" it cannot be rewritten as "Is not this my house", right? That sounds wrong. So how could it be?

It's... water, so you'd think it's a mass noun, but it isn't. Is there a way to know that "floodwater" is a count noun without looking it up in a dictionary? I know it's rice, but lentils and oats because they're always plural with S endings. But then, "I've got some good news" has also tricked me into thinking "news" is countable. So, what now?

I‘ve tried flashcards for memorizing vocab in the past, and I found it was really effective. The problem was that after almost 1 month, I found myself having to learn 100 flashcards from all the previous words I had written. Like…reviewing 100 flashcards every day, I couldn’t manage it. I wonder how other people who use flashcards manage this. Any tips?

The subscription costs 500 rubles, but I would like to save for a couple of months with someone since the Pro version is provided for 2 devices. Anyone who also wants to learn any language in the game for literally 250 rubles, please let me know. This program is specifically for games and for watching movies in English or another language

The tap is on. I'm waiting for the tank to fill / be filled (up).

I'm a bit confused as the dictionary says "fill" can be either transitive or intransitive. Are both correct then?

Don't use a metal utensil, or else you'll ___ the pan.

Hi, native English speakers,

Do you guys use these interchangeably in everyday English?

1. Urban area

2. Metropolitan area

Thanks in advance!

I never noticed this till now but when I say use as in thats of great use i put a slight exaggeration in the s but when

I say im gonna use that i put more exaggeration on the u. Btw im a fluent native speaker of english just an interesting thought

I‘m B2 in English, and I‘m trying to learn more advanced words in order to better understand news articles, books, and more complex English in general. I‘ve tried learning advanced words, but as those are not very common words, I wouldn‘t encounter them often when consuming content and I would not use them when speaking on a daily basis, therefore I didn‘t retain them on the long term. One week later, the words had completely slipped my mind. Any tips on how to memorize them more effectively ?

• This guy stinks.

• This guy sucks.

What's the difference?

Hey guys I'm new here!

Don't know much about this application BTW let's study together while playing quizzes 😉📚

Let me know in the comment section

I refer to every object as he or she. How odd does this sound to native english speakers?

The river is ( receding / subsiding ) as it hasn't rained for a few weeks.

Hello everyone, I’d like to hear your thoughts on my accent and where I should improve if it’s the case

Thank you very much

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Hello everyone I'm Gabriel and I'm trying to reach B2 English and be fluent, so I'm curious if anyone here is interested in becoming a partner with me 🙏🏻

I'm b1 tho

I build a small tool for English learners and wanted to know which tenses are worth drilling, so I tagged every verb in the captions of 1,022 YouTube videos (podcasts, vlogs, news, lectures, TED, stand-up, football press conferences).
What I found:
Present Simple + Past Simple = 83% of all verbs. Add Present Continuous and Present Perfect and you're at 93%.
The rare ones are really rare. Past Perfect Continuous: about once every 3 hours. Future Perfect: once every 4.6 hours. Future Perfect Continuous: twice in 427 hours.
Present Perfect is what separates native from non-native speech. Native-speaking football managers use Perfect tenses twice as often as non-native ones (9.4% vs 4.7% of verbs), even though both groups use Continuous tenses equally.
British vs American is real. British YouTubers use Present Perfect about 1.6 times as often as Americans ("Have you eaten yet?" vs "Did you eat yet?"). Neither is wrong.
Genre matters. TV news uses the widest mix of tenses; lectures and stand-up the narrowest.
So my takeaway: get the four big tenses automatic, then put your extra practice into Present Perfect, not into the Future Perfect Continuous chapter.
Charts and method (tagger accuracy, caveats): https://tense-lens.com/research/youtube-tenses

Hi - I am English learner. I love reading philosophy and social science books, especially in my native language. I have been trying to do the same in English for a couple books. Keep finding myself spacing out or losing focus when I face a difficult passage. Gave up on reading a few books because of that. Does this happen to you guys too? You think many language learners react like me? How do you overcome that?