Room vs Space Hello everyone! Could anybody explain the difference between words room and space? For example, as much as I know, we say "Is there any room in your bag?" and "Is there any space in the office?"

To come around Native English speakers, when do you mostly use the phrase "to come around"? I have read a lot of articles about this, but still didn't get the meaning of the phrase, I would be grateful to everyone who can give some information :)

Present Perfect Continious 1. There is a sentence: "I have played hockey since I was 5. And I'm still pretty good!" and "She has lived in London since 1994" Why don't we use "I have been playing hockey" and "She has been living" in this case? I used to think that we use present perfect just for finished actions in the past, but in these examples he still plays hockey and she still lives in London. If those sentences above are correct then when do we use present perfect continious?

Present Perfect vs Past Simple 1.Let's say the accident just happened and I want to ask my friend that is next to me:"Did you see that?"/"Have you seen that"? Which one is correct? 2. Another situation: it's snowing outside and I want to ask my roommate wether she saw (has seen?) what the weather like today. What tense do I have to use? PP or PS?

One More Try of Finding the Right Way of Learning Foreign Languages. The question "What language do I have to learn?" usually followed by the questions "How do I have to learn it? What do I have to start with?". Now the language is chosen, but the other two questions are still not answered fully. As many of us, I've already been learning English for many years, but still can't say I have got enough knowledge of the language. After reading lots of books, watching videos I figured out the most (as for me) useful method of learning languages for beginners and partially for learners who have higher levels - like a babies. Yes! Babies know nothing about grammar, sentence structure etc. They study it later, at school, but before that they are listening to adults speech and trying to catch some basic things. Then they start speaking somehow, they build sentences just how they feel it should be constructed. As for the vocabulary, they memorize not the single words but the whole phrases. It's more productive because almost every word has more then one meaning, but here you start learning words from the context in witch it's used. As a result, you start to get used to the way of thinking native speakers think. So maybe we should follow this way? I do not call you not to learn grammar (of course, it's necessary), but this might help you a lot in the language learning process. P.S. May be some of you have another good way of how to learn foreign languages, and it would be great if you could share this idea with me :) P.P.S. Waiting for a fixes in the text above, thank you :)

Winter in summertime! Could you ever imagine snowflakes falling on the ground when it's August? That's the thing I could see during my family summer trip to the Elbrus mountain. It took nearly 20 hours to get to the place where we were going to stay. Now we were 2000 meters high. Sky-high pines, fresh air, river, mountains were around us and the Elbrus as an unachievable goal among the clouds.Unforgettable feeling captured me. The weather was cold and wet but despite all this I felt like never before. After two days of getting used to the place and acclimatization I started to notice lots of tourist walking around and buying something. Some of them arrived to enjoy the views or to improve their health, meanwhile another came to do sport ( climbing mostly). So we were there to climb the Elbrus. The day before climbing the weather was really bad. We wished it to be better next day. And it was :) There are two parts of "conquering plan" ( cause you know mountains can't be conquered, they just can let you climb them :) ): cableway ( up to snow line) and climbing itself. The first part is easy, but the going through the snow 1 meter thickness is quite difficult thing to do. After two hours walking we pitched a tent, it was getting dark so we decided to sleep. The night was frightful, there was a strong wind, snow and ... a headache ( that time we were nearly 4000 meters high and there was another air pressure). Next two days were something like acclimatization again. And then ... the weather became bad. We could neither stay nor climb. So we were forced to come back. But anyway it was a great experience and a great enjoy of being there. :)