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![[From sandbox] Can you learn English from books?](https://times42.com/media/1/4/3/716143_640x200.jpg "[From sandbox] Can you learn English from books?")
Short answer? — No! Read below
This is a hotly debated topic, which I frequently encounter almost on a daily basis. In this day and age, it is a needless reminder of the importance of learning English, however learning it “correctly” is quite another thing on its own.
Teaching English in Moscow and several Russian regions, one comes across a plethora of “English books” coming from various publishers such as Cambridge Assessment, Oxford University Press, MacMillan, and the Russian flavourings a.k.a Starli
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