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I began studyin' it at our primary school. Later, I found not so good teachers. I've alwayd desiderd to go to London, and live there but my parents didn't want to. So I was forced to go to University but there u don't have te possibility to talk in English but just to learn literature. I studied...

Yes, I imagine you are full of glamour because you are studying "English glamour" so hard. Throughout Medieval Age, "grammar" meant "study of Latin literature". A phrase "English grammar" was first used by Ben Johnson in 1600 as the title of his English grammar book. OED says: "In early...

From Webster (my sentences) CRITICISM Main Entry: crit·i·cism Pronunciation: 'kri-t&-"si-z&m Function: noun 1 a : the act of criticizing usually unfavorably "No matter how hard she tried, she was constantly subjected to criticism of her work" Watever she did, it never seemed to be any...

You could pick some English songs you like, get the lyrics, learn to sing them and translate? You'll acquire very diversified vocabulary, and at the same time inprove your pronunciation. But be careful in the choice of your songs, maybe start with the Beatles rather than rap!

The mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, USA, Joseph "Joey" Lipari, sausage king of seaside heights, NJ at the shore, sent out political literature with the word "grammer" it was so hilarious. His pronunciation of “Salivation” Army was another laughable moment, as well as It-ly his home country.

Don't know if you're still around .. . One only has to look at bi and trilingual societies to see clear - albeit superficial - evidence that two cultures are inevitably involved where two languages coincide. If one learnt a language purely by rote-learning of grammar and vocabulary, and...

Hello. I'm sorry for not reading your message before; but I hope I'm still in time. About "estuary English", you can find a lot at the following address: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/index.html But you probably knew it already. If you want my opinion, I can see no good reasons for not...

Hello, Arian Let's see if this makes sense. It's difficult when you don't have the right characters to use. Daniel Jones, in his "English Pronouncing Dictionaty", provides six different options for the pronunciation of "genre". I'll give you the first, which is supposed to be one used most...

Hello Semie and Annushka! Nice to meet you. How are you? I already about 3 years in Korea in Seoul. First 9 month I studied Korean language and after that I've entered to graduate school in Seoul National University. My major is computer science, some friends of mine from Russia asked me "What...

Hi, this informative essay took me about 1 hour to research and write. It’s far from perfect but at least it is a draft that I’m proud of. I’ll refine it when I can. Although I’m happy with the basic structure, I need to correct split infinitives and try to make the syntax better. I’d be grateful...