Speakerの例文や意味・使い方に関するQ&A

A: Ah ok. It's a complicated sentence. The author of this is saying that someone has his own special approach to the "concept," but the author wants to know why is it so important that his concept be studied more. Why is it that this other person's approach is a new way of thinking that deserves attention?

A: It basically means "this is what he said next:... "
If a person is already saying something, you use "went on to say" to mean they continued saying xxx, after they said something

A: Generally, yes, I can understand all of that. Accents are usually understandable if they are not too thick (personally I occasionally have issues with Scottish accents). If I am not familiar with an idiom (which isn’t likely), then the context of the situation helps with understand the idiom.

A: 'Talking' isn't a position. That is what the speaker is doing. He/she is talking. The word 'move' is used because the speaker is continuing the conversation. I think 'moving' can be used to say that something is continously happening or something is moving forward. Hope this helps. :)

A: A non-native speaker is someone who speaks a language that is NOT the first language they learned.
If I was born in England, I first learned English, so I am a native speaker of English. Later in life I learned French; I am a non-native speaker of French.

A: I wouldn’t say “done did” is incorrect. There is a stereotype that it sounds uneducated, but it’s a common way to speak in certain regional variations of English. For those variations (like parts of southeastern US) it’s perfectly fine, if informal.

As a non native speaker you should probably stick to the more standard construction though (eg I cooked dinner instead of I done cooked dinner, I drove all the way instead of I done drove). The standard will be understood everywhere. It may sound strange to native speakers if a non native speaker uses done did, and other non native speakers will probably find it harder to understand.

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A: @vastiruiz, flabbergast as a verb is not used very much. Im not sure how one would "flabbergast someone" -know what I mean? Maybe it is just me, but I wouldn't know how to put it in a sentence

A: ain't is slang for won't
i ain't going to talk to them
means i won't talk to them

A: Both are used when a speaker doesn't want to write out a whole list. Etcetera is most often shortened to etc.

She has taken many science classes, including biology, chemistry, ecology, physics, etc.


You need to clean the bathroom, the bedroom, the kitchen, and so forth.

A: どういたしまして。（A hi-fi might have a record deck, a Minidisc recorder, a Cassette recorder, a CD player/recorder, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, などなど、、、）

A: No difference in meaning. However, in sentences like these - ones involving relative clauses - we use "who" for people and "which" for things, so "who" is correct in this situation. Note that you can use "that" for both people and things (as well as for pretty much any other relative clause).

✅I got my CD signed by the singer who performed at the festival.
❌I got my CD signed by the singer which performed at the festival.
✅I got my CD signed by the singer that performed at the festival.

✅This is the coat which belongs to my father.
❌This is the coat who belongs to my father.
✅This is the coat that belongs to my father.

Hope this makes it a little easier to understand!

A: Are you an English speaker is the full one used by people fluent in english it's the correct grammar version, on the other hand are you English speaker is mostly used by those who don't know english so the proper one is most definently "Are you an English Speaker"

A: He is a good speaker of English ( correct )
He is good speakers ( plural/ or used when the topic is two or more ) of English ( wrong )

A: A boombox is a portable combination of two loudspeakers and a radio and cassette player

A: it is "Native speaker" itself

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A: Although my English isn't very good when it comes to holding a conversation right now, one day I want to be able to speak it as well as a native speaker.

edit: For future generations, the above answer isn't quite correct.
話にならない should probably have been translated as "Not worth talking about".
"Although my English is so bad right now that it's not worth talking about, one day I want to be able to speak it as well as a native speaker."

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A: I want to learn how to speak English and in return, I'll teach you Urdu...

A: you told me that 〇〇〇 said, " I did not buy that house unless I was willing to spend a lot of money on it, and now I don't regret that I did not."

A: An impersonal pronoun is a pronoun that does not refer to a specific person or group of people.

For example, "They say education is important" or "One should work hard"

'They' does not refer to any specific people here and neither does 'One'. Both are being used generally.

A: Here you go :) I'm British so it may sound fairly different to an American but that's how we pronounce it

A: I've always wanted to be as good as an English native speaker, but I didn't really put much effort into it. So, I decided to keep a diary in English. That way, I can at least think in English at least once a day.

A: Actually, either form can be used. "I don't think ~" is more natural in most cases, but if you want to place emphasis on the NOT part, you can use the other form. For example, "I think he will NOT do it" is more emphatic than "I don't think he'll do it".