English Thread

In this thread, we attempt to learn to read, write, and speak English, a language which would be very useful to know. It is widely spoken throughout the world.

Do you speak English? Are you fluent? What resources did you use to learn? Can you give some examples in this thread? Posts some useful links.

Let's help each other out and learn a new language.

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When someone says "he's the real deal", they're generally not talking about whether he's authentic and certainly not whether he's "untampered with". They're saying he's a serious player, a skilled person, or truly talented.

For example, a scouter for a high school baseball team might say of a new recruit "This kid is the real deal, we gotta have him on our team." Of course he's a real baseball recruit (everyone they're looking at is), what he's really getting at is that he thinks the kid's good at baseball.

When you're giving a definition on a highly idiomatic phrase like this, you can't just give the literal definition.