Hello! In this short post I'm gonna tell you about a popular phrase which you for sure could hear a lot. The phrase is «Check this out» Do you know what this means?

It's a very good phrase if you wanna someone to find out more about something. For example:

Hey, Jack, check this out! It seems to be a good website!

(Here  you want Jack to visit this website)

I've found this book! I'll check it out in awhile.

(You've found the book and you'll look it through in awhile)

It's such a wonderful movie! Check this out!

(You want your friend to watch the movie)

It's quite wrong to use this expression with animated object like people, animals, flowers etc. It's related to the information only.

I checked your letter out. It's very good!

I'll check your new project out tomorrow.

American people like this phrase very much=) So I'm sure you heard it in their movies many times. And it's not a surprise, because American English deffers much from British English. I wrote about the difference between them in the article British and American English. What's the difference?

Ok, here are some more examples:

I'll check your report out and tell you about my opinion.

Hey, I found a new restaurant! Let's check this out tonight!

I saw your message and replied. So, check this out.

That's it=) Now you know about the meaning of the phrase «Check this out» in English. It's very useful and simple=)

Hopefully, the post was useful for you. I have many interesting articles on my blog. So, check them out!;)

Keep learning English and take care!

Hello! I've been learning English for one year or so. For this time I collected lots of good and useful material which helps me to learn this language. I told you that a very good way to improve your listening skill was podcasts in English. I have more than 5 Gb of podcasts with PDF transcriptions on my computer. And I'm ready to share this stuff with you, guys. Also I have podcasts about business English. If you want I'll send you them too;)

The only thing you have to do is to leave one comment or more for any post of this blog=) Just leave a comment, wait awhile and I'll send you these podcasts to your mail shortly. It can take about one day, because I work and get home quite late in the evening. But be sure, that you'll get them as soon as I can;)

I'm ready to share with you audio podcasts of following awesome online resources:

1. BBC Learning English.

A great service for those who learn English. More than 70 year BBC helps people to learn English. With the internet it became much more easy. They put a lot of useful material on their website, including the great podcasts about many sorts of subjects. How to use this service you can read in my article — BBC Leaning English. How to use podcasts.

2. China232.com

A good website of two brothers Add and Andy! They teach people English making podcasts about different kinds of topics! Many of them are free. Some of them are VIP and you have to pay for it. But I have many podcasts of their VIP section and you can get them for free! Just leave a comment on my blog;)

3. LearnRealEnglish.com

A great website of teachers. They put video and audio lessons on their website.

Good luck guys (and girls) and take care!;)

The point is when I started learning this question worried me a lot to be honest. I didn't really know how much time I should have spent on learning English to make good progress shortly. Currently my English is pretty well. For one year of studying I've got  good experience of it. It means my way of learning is not so bad then.

So in this article I wanna share with you my opinion about the right way of learning. I'll tell you how I planned my time and how I combined my lessons and practice with the rest.

I truly hope this post will help you to break all your doubts and not to think too much if you learn English properly or not.

1. Lessons.

As I already told you in the article «How I began to speak English in half a year» I had a tutor. And I told you that a good tutor it was very important in the beginning. He actually can help you to spend your time correctly to get good results in a short time. Depending on your knowledge and goals he can make the right learning system personally for you. So if you don't have a teacher I insist on your having. This way you'll learn English much more quickly. Believe me.

Ok, if you have a good tutor, how many lessons should you have a week? Some people told me «If you want to learn English very quickly you have to study every day!» And that's actually right, but it doesn't mean you have to have 5 lessons a week with your tutor. Forget about it.

Everything you have to do is to have 2-3 lessons a week with a tutor, no more. It's quite enough. I studied only 2-3 times a week by one hour.

But the very important moment is you have to study on your own a lot. That's really true. You should do your best and do all the homework your teacher gives you. You should try to be involved in English every day wherever you are. Listen to English speech, read books, try to talk with somebody. All the means are good here. And try to do some little exercises every day, because exercises it's the best way to improve your grammar. As more exercises you do as sooner you'll learn it. Just try to do 1-2 exercises a day except them your tutor gave you.

Ok, let's repeat one more time. How should you spend your time when you learn English:

1) Study 2-3 times a week with a tutor by 1 hour. It's enough.

2) Try to learn English on your own every day, be involved in it. Read books, listen to audio podcasts, try to learn at least one new word a day.

3) Do at least 1-2 extra exercises a day. Some little ones. Don't kill yourself.

2. Speaking practise.

This is the most important thing! Unless you have practise you won't succeed. Remember it. This is the language and to speak it we must speak. People who move to some English speaking country and live there for half a year start to speak very well.  And they don't have any tutors, nobody explains to them rules of grammar. They just speak English, that's all.

And what bothers you to do the same in your country. Of course It's not gonna be the same at all, but anyway try to find some pen-friends, try to talk on voice chat with somebody. We live in the 21st century. There are lots of ways to speak English even staying home. Just do it. Don't be shy.

As for me I started finding foreign friends at the same evening I had my first lesson. It turned out to be not difficult at all. For sure I didn't talk on voice chat every day, but on weekends I did it by at least 40 minutes a day. Of course it was not easy in the beginning, but it was  absolutely necessary. And it is necessary for you now.

You see, 40 minutes a weekend and two more times with a tutor and you speak English 4-5 days of the week already. Not so bad, isn't it?

So try to talk to foreign people as more as possible. Or try just to chat with them on your smartphone, iPad, galaxy tab etc.

3. The rest.

The last very important thing is having a rest when you need it. Don't kill yourself.  Don't learn English more than 1 hour per one time. After this time just take a brake, go outside, do something at home etc. Our brain can't get information well after 1 hour of learning or so.

And don't learn English more than 3 hours a day. It's no use.

I spent about two hours and half on my learning a day. It's enough.

So guys, let's look one more time at all the moments I told you about:

1) Study 2-3 times a week with a tutor by 1 hour. It's enough.

2) Try to learn English on your own every day, be involved in it. Read books, listen to audio podcasts, try to learn at least one new word a day etc.

3) Do at least 1-2 extra exercises a day. Some little ones. Don't kill yourself.

4) Try to speak English to somebody at least 2 hours a week.

5) Don't learn English too much. Two hours and half per one day it's more than enough.

And in addition I'd like to say to you one more thing. Please, don't be upset when you can't say something in English. Don't be sad if you can't do some exercise. Just keep calm and carry on to learn English. Day by day you'll make your language better. Day by day you'll speak English better.

The first three months will be the most difficult for you. Be ready.

Just keep learning English and you'll succeed! Remember my words;)

Take care!

In English when we want to ask about someone's character, it's better to say:

What is he like?

What is she like?

This way you show that you're interested in what kind of a person is he or she. Not appearance, but exactly their character. This is a sign of a very good level of English.

In the Russian part of this article you'll find good words about character of people.

Take care!;)

Hello, my friends! This article is gonna be good for Elementary learners. I'd like to tell you or just remind some useful rule of English grammar. My best friend asked me to write a post about it on my blog. So I'm gonna do it.

You know, in English there are so many really easy rules, but extremely useful ones. And that's great. In the article «Bases of Grammar» I mentioned about it. The rule I'm gonna tell you about is related to it to much extent. And I probably should have added it to that post. But anyway I' gonna tell you about it here and I want you to learn it

«I want you to learn it» it's an interesting sentense's structure, isn't it?=) And it's exactly that rule I wanted to tell you about=)

In English, if you want somebody to do something, you can say, for example:

I want you to read this book.

I'd like your brother to come here.

I want she to go to the party with me tonight.

I want your stuped friend to shut up. =)

He wants me to help him.

She'd like he to sing.

I'd like my son to become an engineer.

I want this World to be more friendly.

That's it. So simple. This rule is called «The objective infinitive complex». It's very useful. It'll help to talk with people more easily.

And I told you before that the infinitive was a very important part of grammar. To find out more about it, just download «Грамматика современного английского языка, Верба Л.Г Верба Г.В.» to your computer, open page 91, read it and then do the exercises in the end of the textbook. Once again, it's very very important;)

Hopefully this post was useful for you. Keep learning English and take care!;)

The most important thing here that the verb «do» has only one translation — делать.

The verb «make» can have different translations like "делать, изготовлять, принимать (решение), заставлять).

The next point is when we're talking about something, that's related to some job which we do with our hands, we should use «make».

In fact, it's pretty difficult sometimes to feel the difference between these two words. There are some most common expressions with them which we should just remember and keep in mind. As usual you'll find them in the Russian part of the article below;)

The main meanings of the word «anyway» are «так или иначе, тем не менее, как бы то ни было, во всяком случае, всё равно и т.п» For example:

I'm so lazy, but anyway I'll do this exercise.

(Мне так лень, но, тем не менее, я сделаю это упражнение)

It's very difficult to explain it to you, but anyway I'll try.

(Очень сложно объяснить тебе это, но, так или иначе, я постараюсь)

I'll help you, my friend, anyways!

(Я помогу тебе, дружище, что бы то ни было!)

I've written «anywayS». It's not a mistake, just it's possible to say «anyways» if you're using «way» in a plural form. In this case, «anyways» means «in any case». Here is one more example:

My brother's stucking in traffic now, but he'll come anyways = My brother's stucking in traffic now, but he'll come in any case.

(Мой брат сейчас стоит в пробке, но он приедет в любом случае)

I hope it's clear.

One more good and useful translation of the word «anyway» is «по крайней мере»:

Yes, you're right! Anyway, I hope you are.

(Да, ты прав! По крайней мере, я надеюсь на это)

She looks awesome in this dress. Anyway for me.

(Она выглядит замечательно в этом платье. По крайней мере для меня)

So, it's a very good word in spoken English. It's widly used in any English speaking country. Try to use it in your speech and you'll get used to this word anyways;)