"down" Yesterday I read an article on meanings of “down”. Some of things I want to ask you are still not clear to me. If they say “it’s down here” they mean it’s straight away from the place where they are at the moment of speaking or they mean it’s away from the center or the main entry or straight to the south? Are the two phrases have different meaning-“the thing handed from father to son” and “the thing handed down from father to son”. How do you call lower fur of a dog or a cat or others furry animals (they have it especially in cold climate), is it “down” too or something else?

correct it, please Please correct it and help me with words: They are moving house today. Their new flat is on the third ground of a five-ground(storey?) house. Windows of the two rooms look out over the yard. Inspite(?) that the windows are quite wide, the rooms are pretty dark. The next house drops a big shadow so the rooms're getting sun only on summer evenings. This is not very good for plants. The walls in the new flat is thin enough to hear neighbour's voices(speak?). The cilling isn't high and it has spots of falling plaster(parget?). They need to do renovation.

Could you explain the phrase There is the sentence given as example for "door handle" in my English text book: "I turned the door handle and pushed the door open". Could you explain the phrase "pushed the door open"-it sounds a bit odd to me, like if there is something missing. I would say-I turned the door handle and opened the door; or - I pushed the door to open it, or- I pushed the door and the door opened.

What is your traditional cure for common cold? Tell me about traditional cure for cold in your country.

Coffee It's nice to begin a morning with cup of fresh strong fragrant coffee. In order to make good real coffee one must make it in cezve (we call it turka) It's inconvenient to hit sand at home, so, instead of sand one may use a common stove. You put your cezve with cold water and powdered coffee grains on low hit and wait.. wait a long time... and it is usual you look at other side or worse, you go out of the kitchen for some reason and when you return your coffee is all over the stove. Then you must clean your stove and start all at the beginning. If it happens so often, one may just put two spoons of grained coffee beans in his cup then pour hot water in it and cover the cup by a saucer, and every morning he can now have a cup of not so strong and fragrant coffee but without any troubles

Please, could you tell the difference Could you tell the difference between terrible, horrible, horrid, dreadful and awful

Translation

I'm learning English on my own by reading books and watching movies, but when it comes
to speaking or writing, I never now what word I must choose at the right moment.
I catch myself on putting russian equivalent but it is far not always work.
Furthermore many things could be expressed in English by a few words, at the same time
in Russian you would be need maybe a couple of sentences to express the same thing.
Very often I think it's impossible to translate equally.

silent evening Last night I was sitting on my own in my room and watching TV. The evening promised to be long and calm. I wasn't expecting anyone, my roommate had gone for a week, and there were two days before the week end. I had just follen into the plot of the film (wondering if there is any sense in the plot), then, at the very harrowing moment on the screen, the door widely opened with a bang and a person, wrapped in thick coat densely covered with snowflakes came up on the doorstep.

silent evening Last night I was sitting on my own in my room and watching TV. The evening promised to be long and calm. I wasn't expecting anyone, my roommate had gone for a week, and there were two days before the week end. I had just follen into the plot of the film (wondering if there is any sense in the plot), then, at the very harrowing moment on the screen, the door widely opened with a bang and a person, wrapped in thick coat densely covered with snowflakes came up on the doorstep.