By Grammar, Accents

Yes I agree that English is a difficult language to learn and we have many rules and irregular rules at that! And yes, you will find that some Brits do not have 100% perfect formal grammar or spelling. People under 45 may have more problems than older people as there was an education experiment...

I agree with Chantal that an excellent way to improve your English is to take a course in English pronunciation. Often times, non-native speakers will have excellent vocabulary and grammar, but are still hard to understand by native speakers. This is because the non-native speaker tries to...

I can speak English but recently, I checked in the dictionary and grammar book, and I found out that my English is so crap and I feel ashamed to myself. My accent is so funny: Sometimes it sounds American. Sometimes English aka British and i dunno maybe Australian too. Can someone help me how to...

Hi, Miriam! Thanks so much for your reply. Of course I'm still interested! 1. Sometimes when examples are given, certain forms begin to sound more acceptable. Strangely enough, only your example with "wish" still seems weird to me! The other two don't really sound that formal to me. I can...

There are differences in accent, grammar and words. British accent needs no explanation if you've ever heard it. It is SO different from American. The main grammatical difference is Perfect Tenses. The Americans would say I just had a breakfast and Did you ever go to Spain. The British would...

"There are very few American dialects which make it rather boring in my opinion!" This is pretty ignorant. The US has at least 24 distinct regional dialects. And no, if someone lives in El Paso, Texas, they do not say they have an accent because they border Mexico. Some of the most prominent...

Hello, Carmie "More better" is incorrect; you use just "better". The adverb 'more' and the suffix '-er' both have the same function in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, so saying "more better" would be redundant. "better" is the comparative form of the adjective "good" and the adverb...

I moved to romania...and i applied for a customer service job in a private american company here. And instead they gave me a job as English Grammar teacher. Ok its on thing to speak the language all your life...but to teach it...i have no clue what im doing. They all know english..its basically...

Hi iverness, the site you linked to deals actually with foreign-language-accents. What I was talking about is rather special dialects, regional variants of a language within the language. Standard German is more or less a constructed language which is based on some middle-east German accents,...

the combination of slight mistakes and grandiose turns of phrase, like the 'my dear friends' bit leaves a bad taste. i don't know if she's a native speaker or not, it's hard to tell, you should hear some of us over in England- wouldn't understand a word, it's taken me quite a while to understand...