Today would have been your 90th birthday. I saw that line on someone's personal website. You is the person's mom who passed away 1 year ago. 1. When I saw the line, I thought it is a short form of [If you had not passed away 1 year ago, today would have been your 90th birthday.] Am I right? 2. Instead of that line, how about "Today would be your 90th birthday"? I mean like a short form of [If you lived now, today would be your 90th birthday.] Thank in an advance!

Correct me if I am wrong for the following sentence. “The mode of instruction for this class is in English. “

I want to find a girl as a language exchange, I want to learn to speak English, I am very patient, good at using the environment to guide the learning, we can start from the simplest eating, going to school, I can also record short videos for you to teach you to learn Chinese, I hope to find a great little partner!

I was very self-conscious about smiling when I first got braces. Whether brace here means dental crown or tank-top ？I thought both make sense.

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I'd like to make sure a natural phrase to express the following my situation. I visited a store with my friend lately. I finished my errands soon, but wasn't sure whether my friend wanted to see and purchase something more or not. I asked him what he is looking for. He didn't say clearly and time passed more than 45 minutes there. I was so irritated this situation. I described my friend as below. Is that natural? "He spent chilling out there." I was wondering if you could give me any advises.

What is the difference between 好的 and 好吧? Can you just say 好?

Which one is correct? (the people = nation) They convey a range of emotional, expressive and evaluative meanings, and reflect the ethnic, sociopolitical, historical and cultural life of the people, ITS / THEIR way of thinking and centuries-old history. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I reckon you language learners must have had an experience that you struggled to seek a perfect word to fit in the meaning of a foreign word or term. Here’s a Chinese phrase I want to find out a suitable word to describe it, it’s the one has been underlined in the picture below. The explanation for it in the picture is 100% wrong, although that picture was posted by a professional teacher on Itaki. However, Its correct meaning should be“a well known idiom, as well as the story behind it”, according to Wiki of Chinese version(the 2nd picture below). I know some interesting English idioms has stories, like “break a leg”, “turn a blind eye”so on. So would you be able to think of a word or term to translate it?