I do not have any problem to speak my English in front of anybody, I believe specially British people are really bad to speak foreign languages properly (too many years listening to the tourists in Spain lol). Don´t care about that Krishna. What

"You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you?" "You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you ?" Is the difference between those two an accent matter, or a pronunciation matter? Neither. The intonation is the key. You have

SillyMe wrote: There is no need to improve an accent. Sometimes some work on pronunciation is required, but no more than that. Everyone should just make sure that he could be understood and that is enough. I've seen a lot of people who thought

They may not be but to me, British people sound sophisticated.

Not wishing to offend, but there's little more cringingly funny than someone who thinks they're speaking with a perfect upper-class British accent - unless it's someone who thinks they're speaking with a credible cockney accent. Don't get me wrong

Collective nouns can be seen as notionally singular or plural, depending on whether one focusses on the group as a unit, or on the individual members. Americans are more likely to see "collective" nouns as single groups, and therefore use singular

Hi, the one below is a post by Clive in another thread. As you well might have guessed, the use of "must live" attracted my attention. I wonder whether must be living or must have lived would be a better phrasing. Hi, I guess I must live

Not wishing to offend, but there's little more cringingly funny than someone who thinks they're speaking with a perfect upper-class British accent - unless it's someone who thinks they're speaking with a credible cockney accent. Don't get me wrong

Thanks as always! So, British people would say "He can't have been hungry." Does it sound British to your ears? I know "epistemic" and "deontic", I learned here, and I remember perhaps Marius H was using (or you). Even most natives don't seem to

I'd say we were separate from Europe until we joined the 'common market' in 1973, which involved some economic/trade connection. I was born before that...I remember it causing some kerfuffle at the time and it wasn't a popular decision. Even that