In English as a second language^x

(Once again I forgot to log in -- MM) And, reading through the thread again, I think you do a good job of supporting each other. (Julie is indeed supporting your core ideas, Dmitrij, by detailing the point on 'sprawl' that was connotatively warned against in your own advice to...

I should add, Kela, that, despite all the blue marks, this is good writing for someone in the process of learning English as a second language. Look at me, I can only write in one language. Keep going. You are making a fine effort, and the mistakes above are common ones.

Hi. I'm glad that Ive found here , a nice place to talk i think , I'm a korean , and a daddy of two children. sure im not a native. im learning english kind of very hard for personal reason. but im curious how people with other language learn and use english as a second language , i guess...

To me, a person learning English as a second language, 'statuses' seems a form more rational than 'stati' as the plural of 'status'. I would like to say even 'spaghettuses'. paco

I know that the weakness of learning English as a second language is thinking it in our native language first and then translate it to English. Now, How to speak English without translating it if English is the second language? And I'd like ask if listening to topics that we don't know is...

Hello all, First, an introduction: I live in Spain and teach English as a second language, and must confess I took it up as an alternative to unemployment about 10 years ago, as my 'real' profession was dancer and dance teacher. However, having worked with kids since I went to school with them,...

Something I find a little strange is when English learners decide to learn an accent of British English (for example the poster who said he had learnt Cockney English for 4 years). Why would you do that? I've also heard that people are learning Estuary English. OK, very few people speak RP...

Hi MrPedantic I've read some of your posts on this poem and your "pedanticism"really impressed me. :p I've read many comments on this poem too and most of them think that Duke killed the duchess. I would guess that you share with this point of view. but our professor ,when explaining the...

As an English learner in my opinion the most of people who speak English as a second language use a special mix of American and British English. Many times we don’t know exactly which kind of English we’re using. Usually we learn British English in school and pick up American from movies and...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...