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To learn english fluently

Heyo

Veteran Member
Nice, but one of the problems of English is shown in the first ten words. "To" and "too" are both in the top ten, and as homophones can be confusing.

One other pair that I can think of confuses even natives. People often misuse "I" and "me", at least in the US. To me it is extremely annoying to hear some people say "Me and some friends went to the movies". That sort of error is made far too often. To know if it is I or me simply dump the friends:

Me went to the movies.

Nice, sounds like a three year old.

I went to the movies.

Aah, now I can relax.
"Who's there?"
"It's I."
Sounds wrong - but isn't. I'm also guilty of using my feeling every now and then and (deliberately) mixing up "me" and "I", because it would startle people to use the right grammar.
And it's not that irritating. What's worse is people mixing up "there" and "their". I almost always have to read the sentence twice to realise that it was a spelling error.
Oh, and just to annoy you:
 

Starlight

Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
- Be patient with the dictionary. Trust me: it will help a lot not just with vocabulary but with sentence structure if you also read example sentences for word definitions. Don't skip new words; always look them up or at least note them somewhere until you can look them up.

- Watch movies and YouTube videos from native or fluent speakers. They can help not only with listening but also with formulating sentences and knowing when to use different expressions in various situations.

- Chat and post online. I didn't need to speak much English until around 2018, and that was when I realized that text chats and forum posts had made it effortless for me to speak. My brain had gotten used to stringing sentences together, so speaking was just a matter of uttering them.

- Don't assume that everything a native speaker says or writes is correct or commonly used. A lot of native speakers make mistakes too, and some also use very uncommon dialects or expressions.

- Make it a habit to think in English rather than your native language when you're in a situation where you want or need to speak English. This can eliminate the delay between translating a thought in your head and speaking it.

- Practice, practice, practice. Language will give you as much as you give it. It needs patience, but the payoff is more than worth it.

Good luck! :)
Thank you for your many good advices
 

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
I want to learn english fluently. Do you have some tips to learn english fluently?

By the way I often use google translate when i am writing here. So I am not so good in english as it seems

Thank you for any advice :blush:

You’re doing fine. You communicate in English more fluently than many Americans I know.
 

Nimos

Well-Known Member
I want to learn english fluently. Do you have some tips to learn english fluently?

By the way I often use google translate when i am writing here. So I am not so good in english as it seems

Thank you for any advice :blush:
I would highly recommend using Grammarly, it is a spelling tool that is fully integrated into the browser or pretty much any other writing software you have. I use it myself and it doesn't only help you with spelling but also how to make correct use of punctuation and it can even help you rewrite whole sentences.

How it works is as you can see in this image:
Grammarly.jpg


So all the lines spelt wronged or with incorrect punctuation are underlined with red and blue is used if it think you should rewrite it for clarity. It also has the ability to explain why something should be written a certain way.

It doesn't work 100% flawlessly, but it is very useful and it is completely free.

You can get it here:
Grammarly for Your Desktop | Grammarly
 

Nimos

Well-Known Member
I want to learn english fluently. Do you have some tips to learn english fluently?

By the way I often use google translate when i am writing here. So I am not so good in english as it seems

Thank you for any advice :blush:
Given my newfound love of an AI, you might want to try that as well. And as always it doesn't fail to impress :D

So here is how that went by asking it about you original text:
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As you can see in the last image you can ask it to explain why something is more accurate as well, which is awesome :D

It is very easy to use, as it is basically just like chatting, and it is free as well and is done through your browser so you don't have to install anything:

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
 
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Audie

Veteran Member
I'm going to be spending a lot of time in Singapore. So I need to learn Singlish.

Immersion is going to have to be it,

It goes sort of like this

 
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