Just saw this video on TikTok and she stated that people in the US hardly ever say the word "supermarket" and that it is kind of outdated, and that you should be saying "grocery store" instead. I have no problem with the word "grocery store", but is "supermarket" really that bad?

Thank you all.

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If I'm not mistaken, words like hour, honour and honest originated from French, so the H's are silent. So, why are the words above in the title different?

Hi everyone! I’m from Brazil, and I’m learning English. I’m looking for someone to practice speaking with and make new friends. My English is still basic, but I’m trying to improve. Feel free to DM me!

Hello world! Tell me please, is my text correct or not? Bounty hunter Dr. Knig Schultz and Django, the slave he freed, become partners. They have a very important mission ahead of them: to rescue Django’s beloved, Broomhilda, from the home of the cruel slave trader Calvin Candie.

I mean, not about improving understanding but improving just literally reading speed skills.

When I read article or try to follow the songs, it’s always hard when there are words like at in a an of of combination.

For example like when the short words not important like prepositions comes a lot continually, it’s hard to read smoothly. Prolonged sounds are hard. I want to read like a smoothly but always makes me read like one by one but other words I can read smoothly and fast.

If we read something in mother tongue language we can read fast because we can expect what the word is even we don’t scan perfectly.

So I’m so wondering how to make that also in English.

I’m thinking to read English literature to improve read fast. Do you have good solution for this?

I appreciate any kind of methods to improve this skills.

Hi!

So there's this line that goes

"Can we bring to fall the giants"

in the song Worlds Collide from League of Legends.

I get the general meaning, which is probably something like "can we topple the giants"

but I would like to have an accurate grasp of how it's supposed to be interpreted.

Is this perhaps a shortened version of

"Can we bring (ourselves) to fall (used as a verb like 'fell'?) the giants"

or

an intentionally inverted version of

"Can we bring the giants to (a/their) fall (used as a noun instead of a verb)"

or something else?

Hopefully I make sense..

Any help is greatly appreciated!

From Britannica:-

Riot: a situation in which a large group of people behave in a violent and uncontrolled way

Protest: an event at which people gather together to show strong disapproval about something

Can a violent protest also be considered a riot, which means it's both a protest and a riot?

"Work out" has 4 meanings. Most learners know only one.

I learned "work out" as "exercise" and thought I knew it. Then people kept using it in ways I didn't understand.

So I checked the Cambridge Dictionary. It shows a level (A1 to C2) for each meaning, and "work out" has four:

• B1: exercise. I work out three times a week.
• B2: get better in the end. Don't worry, it will work out.
• B2: calculate. Can you work out the total?
• C2: understand after thinking. I can't work out why she left.

Then I looked at other phrasal verbs I thought I knew. Many of them work the same way: there's an easy meaning everyone learns, and a harder one nobody tells you about.

• come round: visit someone (A2) → change your opinion (C2). He'll come round to the idea.
• give away: give for free (B1) → tell a secret by accident (B2). Her smile gave it away.
• go on: continue (B1) → talk about something for too long (C2). He went on about his car for an hour.
• stand up: move from sitting to standing (A2) → not come to a date (B2). He stood me up.
• take off: remove clothes (A2) → become popular very fast (B2). Her channel took off last year.
• come along: go with someone (B1) → improve over time (C2). How is your English coming along?

My tip: when you look up a phrasal verb, read every meaning, not only the first one. Cambridge shows the level next to each one.

Which phrasal verb surprised you with a second meaning?

Disclosure: I'm building Sink In, a phrasal verb app that teaches each meaning separately for this reason. There's a free level test on the website.