By Grammar, Speaking English

Dear Guest, I am not sure what the purpose of your letter/essay is. Your essay seems to wander all over the place. The structure and grammar of your needs a lot of work. Surprisingly, the words are there in the proper order. You must be accustomed to speaking English on a regular basis? I...

>> Thanks Pemmican for your well thought out comments. You strike me as a diligent language scholar, so I greatly appreciate what you have to say. Thank you very much, Mike, but I wouldn't say I strike you This is just the way I see it. >> Of course only a fool would argue that the...

As a teacher, my students have difficulty with tenses which don't exist in their language - for example, present perfect. Learning vocab is always a matter of memorising unfortunately, and jokes and colloquialisms are also very difficult. I sometimes feel like a really bad stand-up comedienne...