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Hi Vincent Teo,You might want to spent some time on these websites. I think they are particularly suitable for beginners as they cover quite a range of topics and are fairly easy to understand. http://www.learnenglish.de/ (the grammar part is speacially worth studying - it helped me a lot...

Kooyean, thank you for the link. As you said before, there aren't many books on everyday English, particularly those attached with CDs. But I'll keep searching. Jeffrey, I often watch English dramas and movies. I know they help me somewhat. Expressions I learned from dramas include 'I...

exactly how many results there are in reality Google never displays more than 1000 results So what do I do ...
me Since Google doesn t show more than 1000 results I have to restrict the search in order to get

Kooyeen wrote:I understand what you want to say, that "input/output' principle, but I want to say that it doesn't work the same way it works on a child. That principle starts to work once you are already at an intermediate level and you are able to understand what people say when they're...

Openmind wrote:I didn't say you can learn English in exactly the same way as you learned your mother tongue. I said you have to follow the same basic principles. Well, you said this:How did you learn your mother tongue? Why do native speakers know what 'sounds right' and what doesn't? Do you...

Kooyeen wrote:why is it easier to learn English for Europeans than for, say, Asians? Because all of our languages often have several things in common: words, structures, expressions... Look at these Italian words:lingua = languageInglese = EnglishEuropa = Europegeneralmente, seriamente,...

Hi,yes, not many native speakers of English know another language well, compared to other countries, espacially North-European countries. I once heard this:What do you call a person who can speak three languages? Trilingual.What do you call a person who can speak two languages? Bilingual.What do...

Hi, what should I put in sentences like these?We need two, or better, three new system administrators.We aren't searching for any system administrators, or better, we don't need any.You could try eating less cheese, or better, try to avoid cheese at all.This forum is for people who want to learn...

I'm trying to learn English language attending a specific course. In the lesson of this week I've found a verb that I've never heard before. Of course, I know, what "to be" and "to know" mean separately.But what does the expression "to be to know" mean? I guess it is a passive form but I...

WRITING IN English is not easy really! , from the beginning to the end , like the writing in any other language , you should be friendly with vocabulary and expressions , as a small writer in my mother language I know something very important , that you most be near to the word , article and...