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Viewing a Russian website in English I surf the Russian Interent a lot. I even have a Russian e-mail and a few accounts.  I need to learn Russian better as I often get lost.  But if you as an English speaker want to learn how to view a Russian website in English it is easy. [...]

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EnglishRussia is a blog, which is about Russia and depends on user contribution as well as their staff, submitting mostly photos to their blog. What is EnglishRussia? The website EnglishRussia or rather is a blog that gets about 200,000 visitors a day.   From the name and the visits you would think that it would be [...]

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English language accent percentages What percentage of people in the world speak American language accents vs British or other accents? Accent percentages American accents 70% English accents 15% Canadian accents 5% Australian accents 5% Other 5%

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English language church service in Krakow Krakow, Poland is a city with perhaps as many churches per square foot as anywhere in the world. One church that might be of value for English speakers is the Church of St. Giles. If you are visiting Krakow, this church has an English speaking mass on Sunday at [...]

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Top ten nouns used in English 1 Time 2 Person 3 Year 4 Way 5 Day 6 Thing 7 Man 8 World 9 Life 10 Hand This list surprises me. Time at number 1. This list of the most common English nouns was from written English not Spoken English, so in reality I think the [...]

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English words that are often mistaken I am no grammarian or spelling master so I am sure I am guilty of a few of these mistakes, even on my language blog. Check out the list and see how you are using English

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List of twenty weird words For example: 7. Limerance To be in love 8. Mesonoxian Pertaining to midnight 9. Mungo A dumpster diver – one who extracts valuable things from trash

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The country that will dominate will determine next world language The powers The way I see it is there is the USA, Europe, China, Russia, India. Other power  Other considerations are either too small, like Japan or South Korea or like Africa or South America or the Arab world, does not have; at this time [...]

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Like in France and other counties that are being exposed to English,  there is some degree of encroachment of English on the Russian language.  Ussually young people travel to the west or at least see American movies and shows and pick up slang.  It is just not that pick up slag, it is they use [...]

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Understanding a foreign language Foreign language If you have never understood a foreign language to the point of comprehension, what it feels like before you reach fluency is – he is saying ‘something about this’ or ‘something about that’.  It does not feel like our beloved English, but it does not feel all bad either. [...]

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