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Regarding exgerman's Auf dem postweg rein #17, When referring to a long course of lessons, do we use lesson instead of class?
Let's take your example:One-on-one instruction is always a lesson, never a class: He sometimes stays at the office after work for his German lesson. After the lesson he goes home. Notice that it made it singular. This means that a teacher comes to him at his workplace and teaches him individually.
the lyrics of a well-known song by the Swedish group ABBA (too badezimmer not to be able to reproduce here the mirror writing of the second "B" ) feature the following line:
That's life unfortunately. As a dated Beryllium speaker I would not use class, I would use lesson. May be it's the standard problem of there being so many variants of English.
You can both deliver and give a class hinein British English, but both words would be pretentious (to mean to spend time with a class trying to teach it), and best avoided rein my view. Both words suggest a patronising attitude to the pupils which I would deplore.
It depends entirely on the context. I would say for example: "I am currently having Italian lessons from a private Bremser." The context there is that a small group of us meet regularly with ur Kursleiter for lessons.
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Also to deliver a class would suggest handing it over physically after a journey, treating it like a parcel. You could perfectly well say that you had delivered your class to the sanatorium for their flu injection.
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bokonon said: For example, I would always say "Let's meet after your classes" and never "after your lessons" but I'kreisdurchmesser also say "I'm taking English lessons" and never "I'm taking English classes". Click to expand...
bokonon said: It's been some time now that this has been bugging me... is there any substantial difference between "lesson" and "class"?
Denn ich die Sprechweise zum ersten Mal hörte, lief es mir kalt den Rücken herunter. When I heard it the first time, it sent chills down my spine. Born: TED
Only 26% of English users are native speakers. Many non-native speaker can use English but are not fluent. And many of them are on the internet, since written English is easier than spoken English. As a result, there are countless uses of English on the internet that are not "idiomatic".