The best way to learn proper English is to read news report, and watch news on TV. Watching TV shows is a great way to learn casual English, slang words, understand culture reference and humor. If you have already watched these shows then you may recall the words used in the following dialogs.

Why wouldn't the Sonora Desert
make a perfectly good Promised Land?
The Big Bang Theory Season 1, Episode 12

the Gobi Desert was forced
by hunger to eat his own horse
The Big Bang Theory Season 12, Episode 20

GALECKI:
It's been a DESERT.
The Big Bang Theory Season 12, Episode 24

And why would that make you
DESERT your brothers?
Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 1

The junkie loser you were
about to waste and dump
in the DESERT a month ago.
Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 9