General What is your background in English?

[ה. בקר]

In England the word gorgeous means amazing

, I am well aware of that, my husband is British......
but she wrote she is Israeli so it's not because she's British so I am trying to understand if it's bad google translate

No one in Britain will say gorgeous teacher instead of amazing. by the way.


The word amazing is used in Britain. Gorgeous will be used for other concepts

For all I know and I have Brits in my house coming from UK a few times a year....

 

[אלישבע10]

I guess it's google translate

 

[ה. בקר]

I guess it's google translate
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yes, i know google brings it as an option

but, in real life gorgeous is not used for mehamemet.....even not in Britain, and i ask an authentic Brit, living there, today

 

[The special one]

yes, i know google brings it as an option

but, in real life gorgeous is not used for mehamemet.....even not in Britain, and i ask an authentic Brit, living there, today

who would ever use gorgeous for a teacher?? unless they want to say she looks pretty....

i mean. americans say to each other "the food is very nice"

 

[אם הבנים שמחה!]

who would ever use gorgeous for a teacher?? unless they want to say she looks pretty....

i mean. americans say to each other "the food is very nice"

Only Brits says food is nice. Americans say it's good.

 

[אחת--]

Only Brits says food is nice. Americans say it's good.

the food is delicious

 

[The special one]

Only Brits says food is nice. Americans say it's good.

Im really sorry but i dare to disagree.Ive been in America,I have americans in my fmaily and i learned in American yeshivas,and one must say that sometimes they dont speak english correctly.

A brit would say the food is tasty or delicious.not nice.People are nice

 

[אם הבנים שמחה!]

Im really sorry but i dare to disagree.Ive been in America,I have americans in my fmaily and i learned in American yeshivas,and one must say that sometimes they dont speak english correctly.

A brit would say the food is tasty or delicious.not nice.People are nice

What you wrote is true about Americans, not about Brits. The first time a Brit asked me if the food was nice, I had no idea what she was trying to say. (How can food be nice? People are nice.) After spending a year in seminary with quite a few Brits, I sometimes find myself saying it too.

 

[אלישבע10]

yes, i know google brings it as an option

but, in real life gorgeous is not used for mehamemet.....even not in Britain, and i ask an authentic Brit, living there, today

Yes, I know that.
Although Google Translate uses AI, these mistakes still happen.
As AI technology continues to improve, we can expect translations to become more accurate over time.
Eventually, human translators may only need to review and correct the machine-generated translations.​

 

[Sped]

Im really sorry but i dare to disagree.Ive been in America,I have americans in my fmaily and i learned in American yeshivas,and one must say that sometimes they dont speak english correctly.

A brit would say the food is tasty or delicious.not nice.People are nice

You don't need to dare. Of course you are correct. A native American is likely to know how s/he speaks normally.
Americans use "nice" to describe how something looks: The "bar" looks very nice. The food on it is really good!

 

[המלמד מבני ברק]

I was born in Israel and grew up in a family where everyone only spoke Hebrew and Yiddish, when I was 18 I went to the USA for a year, and even though I only spoke Yiddish there, I learned to read English well, but not to write (my writing is shocking and full of mistakes), I'm really ashamed to say, but I have no choice , Google translate helps me write a little...

 

[Sped]

You don't need to dare. Of course you are correct. A native American is likely to know how s/he speaks normally.
Americans use "nice" to describe how something looks: The "bar" looks very nice. The food on it is really good!

I meant to Quote @אם הבנים שמחה! who is a native American English speaker

 

[חפצי הירסטיילינג]

. I listen to podcasts in English
It is very good option to get to know the real English like in America.
Do you know TorahAnytime.com?
They send me every day a short video in English, it gives me a chizuk and helps my vocabulary to grow.
If you want to join the list of TorahAnytime, send them an email in English and ask them to join.
‏‪DailyDoseEmail@ torahanytime.com‬‏

 

[יופלה אפרסק]

If you want to join the list of TorahAnytime, send them an email in English and ask them to join.

hey thanks
I didn't know that there was an option to get the daily dose by email

 

[perfect לי]

I am an Israeli through and through with no English background
I have one uncle who moved to London a few years ago with his family, and one american cousin by marriage.
.I don't keep in touch with neither of them, soooooo
My background in English is an English chug I attended when I were in grades 1 through 3
and then in school'

My grandmother used to buy Mishpacha in English for us.
I listened to the first 5 HASC albums until I knew them by heart.

Today I teach 4 points bagrut (It's shame that my school doesnt have h 5 points group)

 

[Nomi10]

My background in english is only from school and seminary.
Actually, i write only basic english, and i can't promise you that i don't have mistakes.
(By the way, i would be happy if you can correct me)
But my reading is pretty well, because i used to read a lot of of books in English as teenager,
because i finished all the books in libraries, and i found it nice to read English.
that it for now.
thanks for this forum. I hope i'll find it useful.

 

[H. Clin]

My background in English is an English chug I attended when I were in grades 1 through 3

Your English is excellent, but let me guess that your chug teacher was either British, Canadian, South African, or Australian--and not American. (Americans say first grade, second grade, etc., not grade 1, grade 2)

 

[perfect לי]

Your English is excellent, but let me guess that your chug teacher was either British, Canadian, South African, or Australian--and not American. (Americans say first grade, second grade, etc., not grade 1, grade 2)

Well,
I dont think we've reached that level in chug.
It was the basic of basics, like colors, clothes, days of the week.
I wasn't sure if I could write grades first through third so I tried what I

 

[H. Clin]

I wasn't sure if I could write grades first through third

You can't, but you can write "first through third grades."