My new job I started new job 2 months ago. I work as a Purchasing Coordinator in a small trading company. Everyday I go to work from 9 am to 5 pm. I get really bored when I'm there because most of the time I have no work to do. The Dollar Crisis in my country made it very difficult for companies to arrange currency which they need so that they can import the goods that they want, which means the trading company I work in doesn't has any work unless the customers succeeded in arranging currency.

Pronunciation question How do you pronounce the t and y for example in " what you" in American English ?I think there should be a ch sound but I don't really understand how it should be pronounced. Is it pronounced "whchyou" ?

What do you think is the problem? When I try to say something in English I usually find the right words quickly if I'm writing but if I tried to speak it takes me a long time to find the right words, also I know how to pronunce a lot of words and when I try to pronunce them they don't come out as I wanted to say them. What do you think I am doing wrong?

What does "clash over" mean?

How do you pronounce sixth? When I try to hear natives saying it, I feel confused. I'm not sure if it is pronounced the same as six or is it pronounced like normal six then add th sound? which would be very difficult to pronounce.I'd appreciate more answers to have a better understanding of pronounciation varieties.

Things we don't know why we do them in Egypt. When girls see their female friends first time in the day or their relatives,they kiss each other 4 kisses on the cheek.I hate that , I prefer with friends to say Hi and do a " High five" without the high part ( I have no idea what to call it in English,lol)and maybe hand shake older people.fortunatly for me, Nowadays they reduced it from 4 to 2 kisses, BTW old ladys still insist on 4(old habits..Iguess). When you see someone you know and He/She tells you" look I bought this yesterday, what do you think?". Well, He/She isn't really asking if you like it, they want to hear you say how much you loved it, if you did other wise then you are going to be responsiable for wasting their money on it,because they were going to use it and now they aren't,they even may think that you said that you don't like it because you envy them( this's of course when they still like it anyway). Back to what we do without knowing why. You tell the person how much you liked it,then the person is going to say " etfdaliha for girls and etfdalha for boys" it means " you can have it" but in a very polite form and also untrue, 'cause you know and they know that they don't mean it. when you ask your guest what to drink and they choose coffe,you have to serve the coffie with a long glass of water. Why no one knows.

How to link these sounds? When a word ends with the voiced "th" sound and the next word begin with the voiceless "th" sound or "s" sound, how do you say it? Do yo say it like one "th" sound and drop the other? Ex: with three / with seven.

What is the difference between "clean" and "clean up"? Why add "up" to some verbs? Like beat and beat up, wash and wash up and shoot and shoot up.

I love English, but I feel stuck on the same level English is my passion. I really love it that I express my thougts and feelings in English better than my own language. I'm Egyptian and in our public schools we learn English in a very stupid way, basicly 10% of my English is from what I learnt in school. I tought myself English from Movies and tv shows. The problem is now I'm stuck, I can't improve my writing because I learnt from listening, I can't improve my speaking because there is no one to speak with, listening is the best thing I can do, I understand 95% of native speaker's speech. I can read correctly and understand about 65%:70%. I am about to give up learning English because I'm 22 now and I've been trying since I was 13. I should have been Excellent by now.