: Re: Always sounding idiomatic as a non-native English speaker A lot of people use Google's n-gram to see if something is idiomatic, but for a lot of non-native English speakers even that doesn't

@Connie138

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"Her English is too good, he said. Which clearly indicates that she is foreign." -- professor higgins (my fair lady)

Being overly proper is often a non-native speaker indicator.

But this is not what you are asking...

Google n-gram is NOT a source of idiomatic expressions. n-gram is just a collection of frequencies of words appearing in a sequence (of n) over a large corpus of text.

It really doesn't tell you if an expression is legit or not.

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