English is 'ard
Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana.
...ДалееНа информационном ресурсе применяются рекомендательные технологии (информационные технологии предоставления информации на основе сбора, систематизации и анализа сведений, относящихся к предпочтениям пользователей сети "Интернет", находящихся на территории Российской Федерации)
politically correct english
Nowadays people are very sensitive not offended women,poor people,the old and various minority groups. The careful language used to refer to such people is called,ironically,'politically correct' unemployed - non wage-earner poor - financially underprivileged drug addict - substance abuser
...ДалееTelling the time
Telling the time can be confusing when two languages...say English and Russian...have different ways of counting hours and minutes. In English we might say "half two" - the usual short form of "half PAST two". Now one says "past" anymore - we miss that bit out. "Half two" is 2 + 0.5 = 2.30 or
...ДалееTypical Mistakes
Most mistakes that people make when speaking a foreign language are a result of what linguists call "transfer" from the native tongue to the target language. Most mistakes are logical and predictable (if you know the person's native language well enough). English people will say пИсать instead of
...ДалееRecommended reading
If you want to better understand the English there's a really good book by Kate Fox called "Watching the English". It's also been published in Russian recently under the title "Наблюдая за Англичанами"! Worth reading - funny, accurate, and I'd agree with most of her observations.
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