Difference between stupid and dumb

[Psmola]

Hello, thank you.

[Mamdouhcom]

hi evrybody, i'm adbelhak from morocco, i just wanted to tell you that i'm a university student, so i'd like to receive advanced lecons, because i'm not a beginner, thank you and goodbye.

[Vladskywalker]

I believe it is polite to hold a door open for a lady.

Correct answer: (b) polite

Your answer was: incorrect
your sentence:
I believe it is politeness to hold a door open for a lady.

HI! My name is Vladislav. Can you explain me the difference between "polite " and " politeness" ?
Many thanks!)))))

[Torsten]

[Torsten]

[Hangdl]

Hi Torsten!
I'm Hang. I'm living in Viet Nam. I see this forum is interesting. I want to ask you a question. What is the difference between tell, speak and talk? Thanks!

[Alan]

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Hi Hang,

'Tell' is usually used as 'tell a story' or 'tell someone' in the sense of 'inform'. 'Speak' simply means 'use your voice to utter words' and 'talk' is usually used for 'making conversation'.

Let's put them together:

The teacher told the children that it was rude of some of the children to speak while she was talking to other people in the class.

Alan
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[Mah5oud]

I am very happy to do this test, as its first time the style of questions had been changed, also I know the different between dumb & stupid. mahmoud

[Mah5oud]

Hi Torsen
I am sorry, just I had finched the test concerning (listen- hearing) can you please help me to explain the different between them
thanks

[Leonor]

Mr. Torsten,
I have answered 5 question out of 10 correctly:
4: I wrote live
5: I wrote benefit
6: I wrote out
8: I wrote brief
10: I wrote habits

I was thinking about what Anna says, in my opinion its depends of what people have been doing at that moment, if somebody was very busy is possible to do something stupid whithout to be born dumb.

Thank you
Best regards
Leonor

[Torsten]

Hi Leonor,

Many thanks for sharing your results with us. You can see all your results by clicking on the little yellow/gold start on top of your username:
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Torsten
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[Farzana]

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Hello Torsten'

I wanted to let you know that I've got 8 out of 10 in 'we went on holidays', and I also found the difference between dumb and stupid. At first, I couldn't understand your joke but later I got it. And it was written very nicely with a humorous style. So when do we get your next joke?

Thanks for sending me the lessons.

Talk to you soon,

Farzana

[Torsten]

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Hello Farzana,

Thank you very much for your encouraging feedback. Yes, humor is an important ingredient to learning a language. That's why I suggest you read Alan's essay A bit of a laugh ?.

We look forward to your next voice messages.
Best regards,
Torsten
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[Farzana]

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Hello Torsten,
First of all a big smile appeared on my face when you said : Faranza". I want to tell you the correct Pronunciation of my name that is Farzana not Faranza
Oh! that is not a big issue, I am happy with that .Its reminded me of my English teacher. She is native Canadian and she had never pronounced my name correctly. Any how, just for your knowledge this is a Persian name. Now lets come to the topic. I will tell you when I read the article " A bit of laugh" I managed to learn a lot things from it and I totally agreed with you and Mr Alen that laughter is good for learning. We can learn much more effectively. I had taken some English classes and our teachers followed the same rule. During class, they create a very pleasant and friendly environment through their spontaneous humorous sentences and jokes and the result was we felt all day happy,fresh and in a good mood. The benefits from this was that our senses were alive and we got ready for learning every single thing. We don't even know how much we have learned. This is also something else that I just remember when I was a child and my father used to give me any task and I hadn't understood at that time then my father used to ask me with a very serious face " Is there brain bigger then the cow? I used to think for a while and then realized Oh! I did something wrong. By pulling my leg he would force me to think. I believe that everyone has a sense of humor regardless of age. You only need to know how to use it . I also want to chip in one more sentence a clean sense of humor makes you respectful. I think, someone has understood in this forum what I want to say.

Thank you Torsten for given me a smile
Regards

Farzana

[Karakus]

Thanks for the explanation concerning the difference between stupid and dumb.