What does "drastic" exactly mean? can't find an equivalent for this word in my language
In The Walking Dead E5, Christa said "I know it's drastic" (When they decided to cut off Lee's arm)
"Drastic" means extreme or severe.
Like cutting off your arm because it has become infected (in that case, by the walkers)
Another example is: In the United States, there has lately been talk about having to increase our debt ceiling (the amount of money our country is allowed to borrow from other countries). The higher our debt becomes, the more interest is applied to that debt. Some people had the idea that the American government should be made to declare bankrupty in an effort to remove some of the debt we owe (it didn't happen but people still talk about it). This is a very drastic thing do to because it would have very high and far-reaching (into the future) effects on us.
Something that is drastic is also often (though not always) potentially dangerous.
My thread get fu*ked. thanks to you coolsome
Anyway, Thanks again to those who always helped me
What I've learned over these years of my activity on the internet is that the American people are most willing people to help other people
I have a new question, In the COD : Black ops2 (Awesome game) someone said "We've scoured every inch of "The Vault" sir" so my question is why he used scour and not just used We've searched every inch of "The vault" sir
My thread get fu*ked thanks to you, coolsome.
Anyway, Thanks again to those who always helped me.
What I've learned over these years of my activity on the internet is that the American people are the most willing people to help other people.
I have a new question: In COD:Black Ops 2 (Awesome game) someone said "We've scoured every inch of "The Vault" sir" so my question is why he used scour and not just used We've searched every inch of "The vault" sir
Why did he use Scour instead of search?
Fixed.
When you scour a pot, you scrub at it very hard to get it clean. I suppose the reason why they used the word "scour" is to emphasize that they searched really really hard.
This doesn't mean that they overturned everything and wrecked the place while searching.
A "snag" refers to when something (like a thorn or a nail) gets stuck and pulls on something else (like your clothes).
If you "hit a snag", it means that something is keeping you from continuing to do whatever it is that you meant to do.
For a person to snag something means to quickly take it or perhaps to steal it. This is likely because when your clothes get snagged on something, it usually happens very quickly and you may not even have realized it was happening until you've already torn your clothes.
It's still a long way ahead for me to learn English like a native, But so far so good
In the COD : Black Ops2 Woods was talking about heaved Kravchenko and himself threw out of window and after they both fall down Woods said "He comes to first"
What does it mean when someone comes to first
In the Black Ops 2 when Hudson told Mason what the fuck happened back there Mason answered "Can it, Hudson! just keep moving" What does Can it mean in here? Gives any special meaning?
hi, im now studing english on a course. until now i never studing english, all that i laerned was by myselft.
the only advide that i can give is... practise... the most practice you have the better.
like the little kid that knows the languaje by hear their parents tv, etc, you must learn english in everyplace where you can learn things...
by whatching movies with english languaje and english subtitles, using a dictionary. and also using all thosefree pages that exist with exercises. the bbc website have a lot, but there are many others.
and try to make it funny...
one very good and funny way of learn english, is by ear english songs with the lyrics from any site.
go to register there, is free and this way you could keep your points.
then, search a song, this website uses youtube and every person can write the lyrcis for that song.
then, you must hear the song, and write some words that not happened. the more difficulty you select, the more words you must fill.
this is a very good and funny way of learn english using the music. just try it with one of your favorite songs, and starts to learn some english meanwhile you make fun with it...
for example, i dont know too many english. but i can sing the "eye of the tiger" rocky 3 song thanks to this. and this is so cool!
one really good way to learning is go to "lyrics training" website (search it by google). listening music from youtube you must answer wich words are those that appears like "????" in the lyrics meanwhile you play the song. and you can register there for keep your points table. hehe
if not, just take a lot of the lyrics of many songs in the net, and then listen that songs using these lyrics. is do the same, but in other way.
thats a very interesting and very funny way to learn english for sure!
i never studing english until right now. and all that i was learned in those years was by watch movies with english languaje and subtititles, and by hear many songs with the lyrics taken from the net.
What exactly does crowdsource mean in the following sentence?
"Cordis Die" social network has crowdsourced simultaneous protests in both Iran and North Korea
Fixed.
When you "outsource" something, it means you hire someone else outside of your company to do it for you.
To "crowdsource" something would then mean the same as outsourcing, except that a large crowd of individual people are involved.
Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing. Kickstarter, which helps people get money for projects from thousands of people on the internet, is a good example of crowdfunding.
This means that Cordis Die got a bunch of regular people together to protest for them, and they used their social networking site to help organize it.
Just a note that outsourcing doesn't have to mean you send it out of country. That is officially "offshore outsourcing" or just "offshoring." Outsourcing can also mean you hire someone outside of your organization to do something for you, but they can be in the same country.
Crowdsourcing is a brand new word. It didn't exist five years ago. It's just a short way of saying "outsourcing to the crowd" where "the crowd" are a large number of people willing to do something for you. If a huge number of people each do something really small, it can add up to a lot.
I always thought Latin was very hard, actually when i was younger I went to a private school the priest spoke everything in Latin. which became annoying.
English is the hardest language to master(it's all because of our rule exceptions and plurals), but it's not like any one uses proper grammar any more.
You should try listening to audio books. Especially the ones done like plays with special effects and lots of dramatization. And you can follow along with a printed book if you like. I am someone who learns well when I can listen to things.
Hi! I just read your post now. Which is very timely because I kind of have the same problem. Not with grammar, though. I deal with American clients so I'd like to get rid of my accent, at least when I'm talking to them. My goal is to know to to learn how to speak English like a native. One of our trainers recommended http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers . I just started 2 days ago and so far, I am one happy customer. I hope this helps.
Having learned 3500 words is not bad for a non-native learner. Most adult speakers hold between 20,000 to 35,000 in their vocabulary. Try finding a television show, band, musician or something similar in English and use that.
Thanks again, my main problem is that I just know 3500 Words in English
My vocabulary holds around 4000 words, I tried to learn more but it's so hard
I want to know which words are more important in this language
Could you refer some of them ?
As someone who did a degree in it, Latin is definitely simpler than English. Latin is a very...methodical language. very forumulaic. Learning Latin for me used skills from those I used to learn french and those I used to learn maths.
Ancient Greek is a bit more like English, but really English is way tougher just because of how many loanwords and loan constructions it has.
I always thought Latin was very hard, actually when i was younger I went to a private school the priest spoke everything in Latin. which became annoying.
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Oh, and I trimmed your quote of coolsome to something a little less... ridiculous. Hope you don't mind.
I know it doesnt make sense in eglinsh but i did it for the lolz anyways back to topic
Like cutting off your arm because it has become infected (in that case, by the walkers)
Another example is: In the United States, there has lately been talk about having to increase our debt ceiling (the amount of money our country is allowed to borrow from other countries). The higher our debt becomes, the more interest is applied to that debt. Some people had the idea that the American government should be made to declare bankrupty in an effort to remove some of the debt we owe (it didn't happen but people still talk about it). This is a very drastic thing do to because it would have very high and far-reaching (into the future) effects on us.
Something that is drastic is also often (though not always) potentially dangerous.
Anyway, Thanks again to those who always helped me
What I've learned over these years of my activity on the internet is that the American people are most willing people to help other people
I have a new question, In the COD : Black ops2 (Awesome game) someone said "We've scoured every inch of "The Vault" sir" so my question is why he used scour and not just used We've searched every inch of "The vault" sir
Why he used Scour instead of search?
When you scour a pot, you scrub at it very hard to get it clean. I suppose the reason why they used the word "scour" is to emphasize that they searched really really hard.
This doesn't mean that they overturned everything and wrecked the place while searching.
A "snag" refers to when something (like a thorn or a nail) gets stuck and pulls on something else (like your clothes).
If you "hit a snag", it means that something is keeping you from continuing to do whatever it is that you meant to do.
For a person to snag something means to quickly take it or perhaps to steal it. This is likely because when your clothes get snagged on something, it usually happens very quickly and you may not even have realized it was happening until you've already torn your clothes.
In the COD : Black Ops2 Woods was talking about heaved Kravchenko and himself threw out of window and after they both fall down Woods said "He comes to first"
What does it mean when someone comes to first
So if someone "came to first", then they were the first person to wake up.
Thanks then isn't it a slang? That's just about who gets up first?
Or it could means outsmart too?
the only advide that i can give is... practise... the most practice you have the better.
like the little kid that knows the languaje by hear their parents tv, etc, you must learn english in everyplace where you can learn things...
by whatching movies with english languaje and english subtitles, using a dictionary. and also using all thosefree pages that exist with exercises. the bbc website have a lot, but there are many others.
and try to make it funny...
one very good and funny way of learn english, is by ear english songs with the lyrics from any site.
or by entering on this cool website...
http://es.lyricstraining.com/
go to register there, is free and this way you could keep your points.
then, search a song, this website uses youtube and every person can write the lyrcis for that song.
then, you must hear the song, and write some words that not happened. the more difficulty you select, the more words you must fill.
this is a very good and funny way of learn english using the music. just try it with one of your favorite songs, and starts to learn some english meanwhile you make fun with it...
for example, i dont know too many english. but i can sing the "eye of the tiger" rocky 3 song thanks to this. and this is so cool!
if not, just take a lot of the lyrics of many songs in the net, and then listen that songs using these lyrics. is do the same, but in other way.
thats a very interesting and very funny way to learn english for sure!
i never studing english until right now. and all that i was learned in those years was by watch movies with english languaje and subtititles, and by hear many songs with the lyrics taken from the net.
greetings
About lyrics training website I think It's a good way too but it's a matter of my net speed, I'm using mobile internet (speed is awful)
What exactly crowdsource does mean in the following sentence?
"Cordis Die" social network has crowdsourced simultaneous protests in both Iran and North Korea
When you "outsource" something, it means you hire someone else outside of your company to do it for you.
To "crowdsource" something would then mean the same as outsourcing, except that a large crowd of individual people are involved.
Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing. Kickstarter, which helps people get money for projects from thousands of people on the internet, is a good example of crowdfunding.
This means that Cordis Die got a bunch of regular people together to protest for them, and they used their social networking site to help organize it.
Crowdsourcing is a brand new word. It didn't exist five years ago. It's just a short way of saying "outsourcing to the crowd" where "the crowd" are a large number of people willing to do something for you. If a huge number of people each do something really small, it can add up to a lot.
I always thought Latin was very hard, actually when i was younger I went to a private school the priest spoke everything in Latin. which became annoying.
You should try listening to audio books. Especially the ones done like plays with special effects and lots of dramatization. And you can follow along with a printed book if you like. I am someone who learns well when I can listen to things.
Sailor Moon: I am Sailor Moon, the champion of justice. In the name of the moon, I will right wrong and triumph over evil... and that means you!
Hi! I just read your post now. Which is very timely because I kind of have the same problem. Not with grammar, though. I deal with American clients so I'd like to get rid of my accent, at least when I'm talking to them. My goal is to know to to learn how to speak English like a native. One of our trainers recommended http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers . I just started 2 days ago and so far, I am one happy customer. I hope this helps.
Having learned 3500 words is not bad for a non-native learner. Most adult speakers hold between 20,000 to 35,000 in their vocabulary. Try finding a television show, band, musician or something similar in English and use that.
If English is not your mother tongue, what is?
Oh, thread so dead
Writhing in pain
Arise, arise, to post again
The OP must be fluent at this point. lol
A great native English speaker and teacher as a tutor provides a great learning session on Skype and it makes learning English easier for me..
English is a nice language to be known and hence I decided to learn it from any where and my friend suggested me to learn it over Skype….
Preply is a great platform for getting good tutors help especially for learning International Languages.
I highly recommend it for all who asks me "how to learn English like natives?"..
I joined the program available here to learn English … http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers
I'm not native either, but if you have any questions, don't hesitate to message me. I know the grammar well.
EDIT: Just checked the date, you probably know it well by now.
As someone who did a degree in it, Latin is definitely simpler than English. Latin is a very...methodical language. very forumulaic. Learning Latin for me used skills from those I used to learn french and those I used to learn maths.
Ancient Greek is a bit more like English, but really English is way tougher just because of how many loanwords and loan constructions it has.
EDIT: Shit this was posted in 2013 haha