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Indie English: Synergy!
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. This is just something silly I wrote for my other blog. It's about English, sort of. It's really just about the alphabet. Http:/ thereareworsethings.wordpress.com/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Words you should use correctly: #2 havent, hasnt. Bad words to use when you cant use bad words. Things more important than tenses. #1: False Frien. Things more important than tenses #3: Word order (.
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Indie English: December 2009
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. Tenses: Not Quite as Important as You Think. In my experience, there are a lot of English learners who really like to worry about tenses. Many are happy to sit through lesson after lesson of nothing but tenses. They think that if they can just understand the tenses a little better, they’ll finally sound like native speakers. No, not really. How People Become English Teachers. Let me tell you a story. 8220;Sarah” is a...
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Indie English: September 2010
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. One of the most difficult things for English speakers learning German is the use of gender. English has one gender, and German has three, which is one more gender than humans have. What’s more important for you is to understand how English speakers think of gender. It’s quite different. 1 Things do not have genders. If it has a personal name and a penis, use “he”. If it is a guitar, boat, or car that belongs to a man, and ...
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Indie English: Things more important than tenses. #1: False Friends (Part 4)
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. Things more important than tenses. #1: False Friends (Part 4). More false friends, and other words that aren't really false friends:. 1 will / will. Very simply, "I will" is something we use for the future, and ich will. Means "I want" or "I want to". That's it. Don't forget it. If I can get this right in German, you can get it right in English. 2 consequent(ly) / konsequent. 3 critic / Kritik. The German word Kritik.
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Indie English: Present perfect vs past simple (Part 2)
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. Present perfect vs past simple (Part 2). Some more general guidelines for this. 1 This is nothing at all like German. There is absolutely no connection between German and English grammar on this point. None. Ich war noch niemals in New York. Would translate to "I've never been to New York.". Gestern Nacht habe ich zu viel getrunken. Would translate to "I drank too much last night.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Indie English: Gender in English
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. One of the most difficult things for English speakers learning German is the use of gender. English has one gender, and German has three, which is one more gender than humans have. What’s more important for you is to understand how English speakers think of gender. It’s quite different. 1 Things do not have genders. If it has a personal name and a penis, use “he”. If it is a guitar, boat, or car that belongs to a man, and ...
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Indie English: February 2010
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. 8220;Some” and “any” are difficult words for some people to use correctly, because they don’t. Directly into German. The typical mistake is that Germans overuse the word “any”. The major difference between “some” and “any” is that the word “any” has no limits to it. For example:. I’d like something to drink. I’m so thirsty I could drink anything. This means there is nothing I will not drink. I have something to tell you.
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Indie English: Some and any
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. 8220;Some” and “any” are difficult words for some people to use correctly, because they don’t. Directly into German. The typical mistake is that Germans overuse the word “any”. The major difference between “some” and “any” is that the word “any” has no limits to it. For example:. I’d like something to drink. I’m so thirsty I could drink anything. This means there is nothing I will not drink. I have something to tell you.
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Indie English: Tenses: Not Quite as Important as You Think
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How to improve your English and avoid bad English teachers, schools and textbooks. Tenses: Not Quite as Important as You Think. In my experience, there are a lot of English learners who really like to worry about tenses. Many are happy to sit through lesson after lesson of nothing but tenses. They think that if they can just understand the tenses a little better, they’ll finally sound like native speakers. No, not really. 1 DON’T USE “-ING” TOO MUCH. In English, we use simple forms far. 8221;), but most ...