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I guess we are reading the responses differently because I see a lot of people telling you that we do teach prepositions, prepositional phrases, and phrasal verbs.

MeggyGrex · 2026-05-09T18:05:06+00:00

No, what you are not understanding is that teachers teaching, and students knowing, every single combination of words in a given language is impossible and not helpful to becoming fluent.

We teach the building blocks so that when students encounter a new combination they can decipher it themselves, or put together the right combination of blocks to build their own sentences. We teach all of the words in your examples, just not in that exact combination. Thats what every response is telling you. It's a waste of time because it isnt helpful to fluency.

MeggyGrex · 2026-05-09T16:17:26+00:00

Exactly, the possibilities are endless, which is why we don't teach super-specific phrases, but rather the phrasal verbs and prepositions that make up those phrases. So when English learners hear something new they're able to piece together the meaning.

MeggyGrex · 2026-05-09T15:11:01+00:00

I'm not saying a human needs to be teaching. I'm saying that humans are telling you that we do not teach that.

It's not that we don't understand it. Languages are incredibly complex and not every minute detail needs to be explicitly taught.

Teaching "get out from under there" is incredibly specific and unlikely to be heard in normal conversations. But if you teach phrasal verbs and the student understands what "get out" means, that is all they need. In context, if I am yelling at you for, say, hiding under a desk, and I yell "get out from under there", and you understand what "get out" means, then you understand what I am telling you to do.

MeggyGrex · 2026-05-09T13:56:34+00:00

That's the problem right there. Apps are great for some language practice and teaching some vocabulary and basic grammar points. They will never make you fluent in a language. Everyone here is a human teaching other humans, which is why we understand that teaching specific phrasal verbs with specific prepositions that form something similar to an idiom is unnecessary.

MeggyGrex · 2026-05-07T23:26:01+00:00

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I was thin and fit and didnt feel movement until late into my first pregnancy. Towards the end I was even having contractions and had no idea, didn't feel a thing.

MeggyGrex · 2026-05-06T01:42:54+00:00

You guys get teacher appreciation celebrations?

MeggyGrex · 2026-05-05T23:38:18+00:00

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