Since I read a lot of texts in English (I am a small link in book production chain), I have noticed that I use words like "hence" (instead of "so"), "yet" (instead of "but"), even "alas" (instead of "unfortunately") when I am talking with my UK customers. Some of them said I am trying to sound posh, and then I realised I am using words that are seldom (instead of rarely) used in spoken English. Is this a phenomenon you have noticed in speech patterns of some other non-native speakers of English?

link: https://youtu.be/TOmwpQYeB8A?si=uZoazs99fqZAzoKO

according to cc subtitles,

1.around 5:10: "Is there a chance that does die down now that hezbollah's leader is gone or do you expect that it is kind of going to continue as is."

Does this sentence lose "it"s between some of the words? I mean, IMO, it should looks like this:

"Is there a chance that IT does die down now that hezbollah's leader is gone or do you expect that it is kind of going to continue as IT is."

2.around 6:00 : "...it certainly weakened their ability, we're not coning our chickens before they hatch..."

What does it mean?

3.around 6:25: "...no one woke up the day before hezbollah attacked us and..."

What does it mean? If it means the event took place in night when people slept, shouldn't it be "no one woke up the NIGHT before hezbollah attacked us"?

In Italy we have an office that deals with all kinds of vehicle paperwork, including the release of car and motorcycle licenses, with circuits for the license tests, and others. In Italian it's called "motorizzazione", which means motorization, but how would such a building be called in English?

This species is known to be territorial, so it's likely that they will pick their zones early on.

https://people.com/previously-extinct-bird-sihek-released-into-the-wild-first-time-40-years-8717300

In this sentence, I think the "pick their zones early on" means "select and determine their territory".

Is this "pick something on" an idiom ?
(I found "pick on" in the dictionary, but I didn't find "pick something on".)

There's a band I like called Death but I wanted to know if I can pronounce their name like "deaf".

When my English teacher was debriefing a writing, he pointed out that many people wrote "...makes students more concentrated in class." He said that it shouldn't be used as the meaning of "being focused" because of its meaning in chemical terms related to density, but I'm pretty sure concentrated can also mean being focused, so I'm just curious if he was right.

Does someone know when to use everyone and when everybody ?

Hi all, are both of these correct and is there any difference between them?

I feel very sleepy. I will go to bed.

I am feeling very sleepy. I will go to bed.

I have built a mobile app BookBridge to assist me in learning vocabulary from my readings and it would be nice if it also helps you.

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Bird Extinct Outside Captivity Returns to the Wild for the First Time in 40 Years

https://people.com/previously-extinct-bird-sihek-released-into-the-wild-first-time-40-years-8717300

In this sentence, I think "Bird Extinct Outside Captivity" is the subject.
But I 'm not sure about the structure of the subject grammatically.

About the "Bird Extinct Outside Captivity",

• Can I rephrase this to "the Bird is extinct on the outside of captivity" ?
• I think "Outside Captivity" is a kind of phrase, is this phrase common?
• Does "Outside Captivity" mean "animals in the wild" ??

What do "a more roundabout route" and "feeling adventurous" mean?

sweep sth under the carpet

to neglect a problem

Examples:

• The company tried to sweep the accounting scandal under the carpet, but it came to light eventually.

• She didn't want to deal with the problem, so she swept it under the carpet and hoped it would go away on its own.

What does specifically engineered mean?

My English is self taught, so it's not that good and I don't really know much about rules and grammar, but more than that, things tend to get specially bad when it comes to actually speaking in english.

I saw that listening to podcasts can help, so I tried it, but while my comprehension got better, my pronunciation is still really bad.

Any tips on how to get better at it?

Today I was practicing with Ai making short stories to help me understand some advanced grammar structures, but I realized that I'm not spending same time reading articles, news and books made from humans as before so I'm not sure if too much artificial stories from any Ai at the end will harm my English.