Словарь на тему Foreign Languages

 MY ENGLISH IS NOT PERFECT YET

- It betrays me as a foreigner
- I should speed up my reading
- My English is slow, searching for the words
- My English is poor. I still have a long way to go
- My pronunciation is poor
- My vocabulary is limited
- I am ashamed of my mistakes in English
- My knowledge of English is far from satisfactory
- There are wide gaps in my knowledge of English
- I can’t speak and write it well / without making mistakes 
- I should increase my vocabulary
      Learn grammar
       Learn spelling
       Learn pronunciation

GOOD ENGLISH CAN

- help me cut through many barriers to social, academic and business success
- help me realize how much I can influence others simply by speaking and writing with greater power and authority
- help me talk freely about politics, culture, sport, hobbies to a foreigner
- pay me real dividents in business and social advancement

LANGUAGE

Standard English
American English
Broken English
Impeccable English

- mother tongue
- cradle tongue
- native language/ foreign/ ancient/ modern/ formal/ informal/ spoken/ kitchen/ official / national / common/ broken / archaic/ rudimental/ second

I SHOW NATURAL APPETITE FOR LANGUAGES

- I am multilingual
- I am perfect in some foreign languages
- I am bad/ good/ rather weak at languages / at communing in English
- I am fluent in two languages
- I jump from language to language quite easily
- I have a flair for languages
- I have great facility in / for learning languages
- I have a good command of English
- I have an ear for languages
- I have a gift for languages
- I have a talent for languages
- I have a genius for languages
- I have no good knowledge of English
- I have no good grasp of English
- I have a fear of speaking a foreign language
- I learn a foreign language properly / perfectly / at my own place / on my own / quickly / thoroughly
- I speak English fairly well
- I want to perfect myself in English
- I want to improve my language skills
- I want to improve my reading skills
- I want to study English in greater depth
- I want to watch TV programmes in English
- I want to watch films in English
- I want to learn new things about English culture
- I want to read in English quite a lot
- I want to speak English without an accent
- I want to speak English with unaccented fluency
- I want to speak English fluently
- I want to use English for business
- for professional purposes
    for travel
    for social contacts
    in ordinary conversation
    on the telephone
    in meetings
    to give lectures
- I know classical Latin, Greek