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Expressions & collocations: words that walk in pairs

Everything you need to stop sounding fluent-but-foreign one word pairing at a time, in one path. Start with the field both idioms and formulas belong to and the much larger category B1 never named - collocations, word partnerships that are compositional in meaning but still conventionally fixed - through verb-noun pairs, adjective-noun pairs, and the compositionality test that tells a collocation from an idiom, learn the vocabulary of collocation itself, take six guided lessons that build from a single fixed pairing to catching every calque a learner reaches for, listen to two colleagues finishing tomorrow's presentation the evening before, read a short essay on why питати питање sounds redundant to every native speaker, write about a difficult decision you once made, and finally repeat an everyday warning about paying attention to traffic.

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