How to get rid of accent in English

English teachers all over the world never tire of arguing that there is no need to be shy about your accent. But this does not mean that you cannot improve yourself or try new things. If you've always wanted to speak like Lady Mary of Downton Abbey or Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, go for it! Choose with which ...

English twin words with different meanings: how to distinguish them and not get confused

Homonyms—the same word with different meanings—are something that can make English difficult. How to distinguish them from each other, says Grammary. What is the same word with different meaning? Homonyms are defined as the word...

Personal experience: how I independently improved my English from zero to level B2

Ivan Rubtsov spoke in a column for the Habr website about his experience of learning English and shared things that worked and didn’t work for him personally. He recalled that the process of learning a language is very individual, and one can never say that any one method is correct...

Why Russian speakers sound rude when speaking English, and how to fix it

Sometimes Russian speakers, speaking in English, sound very rude. This is usually due to the fact that they very literally translate phrases that are pronounced normally in Russian, but do not sound very good in English. On his YouTube channel, Justin shared four moments when Russian-speaking...

Culinary terms in English for reading recipes

An English-Russian culinary dictionary to help housewives who want to cook according to the recipes of English-language sites and books. Lifehacker has decided not to stop at translating common ingredients like vegetables and fruits. The article contains only those terms that will help you follow the recipe exactly and cook ...

17 sites with which you can learn English

Lingualeo's teachers have made an excellent selection of podcasts for preschoolers, schoolchildren, and teens with varying levels of language proficiency. Language learners won't lie: listening is the hardest skill. But it is important to master it, since the process of listening is 45% of the total time of communication between people. Gadgets and the Internet help turn the training process into a fun ...

Ten Best Online Game Sites for Learning English

Do you like games? We think every English learner wants the learning process to be easy and fun, like a favorite game. We also believe that learning English is fun, so today we offer you 10 sites with collections of free online games for learning ...

How did 10 most popular English idioms

Many consider idioms to be the highlight of any language, because they are unique, peculiar, although sometimes they can be confusing. Idioms are stable turns of speech, the meaning of which is not in the individual words of which they are composed, but in the history of the origin of these expressions. AT…

Speak as a native speaker: 40 + English conversational expressions

We are used to learning foreign languages ​​from textbooks and books, which, alas, often lag behind live speech, which is constantly replenished with new words. Because of this, others think that we are talking too academically and old-fashioned. Fortunately, this shortcoming is easy to fix. Bright Side dug through social networks and modern dictionaries to understand how they say…

Six favorite Soviet cartoons in English

It’s very unusual to watch the usual “Winnie the Pooh” or the “Prostokvashino” series in English. Many cartoons are accompanied by Russian subtitles. First of all, cartoons will be useful for children, because you cannot force them to read books in English. “Winnie the Pooh” “Winter in Prostokvashino” “The Scarlet Flower” “The Snow Queen” “38 Parrots” “Adventures...

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