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hi saudi. ı am from turkey, istanbul. ı have an advice for you.. listen me carefully ok.. ı was like you... ı couldn't understand anything before.. yes my grammar was perfect but ı needed to talk. ı decided to join an touristic shop.. and ı met a lot different people. because all of tourists...

I think Communicative approach has a relation with other methods. When I began to learn English, my teacher used to explain vocabulary and grammar from a text, then we mimick her to read it. Before teaching, she had an introduction which was very interesting. She had a good accent of a speaker of...

Hi CoolBun,apart from the "General Grammar Help" section of the forum, the other sections are checked less often, so, for example, after posting a question here, the poster might even have to wait a couple of days before getting a good answer.Your question is exactly the same as one I asked some...

Francesca wrote:I do think that it should be taught by native speakers because I had Italian teachers and I didn't learn the 'real' English but just an Ita-EnglishGrrr! I had Italian teachers too, you are perfectly right, I didn't learn English from them! It was just a mix of lies, imprecise...

Hi,I think it depend on many things. Of course listening those stuff is helpful for you not only to learn vocabulary, grammar, style, ect. but also stress or native accents which you cant get from the text. However, how come you get vocabulary, grammar or style... if you dont even catch a single...

Hi Wuv,I don't think I can be of much help, I don't practice spoken English much yet, but I feel your problem might well be one of my future problems. I can just say that... Wuv1337 wrote:...when I speak English because I have a really bad accent. ...that you could try focusing a little on...

Eugh. This is probably the wrong place to vent, but I'll take my chances. Never a talker, I'm just horrible when it comes to speaking. Even when I speak in my native language, I butcher my grammar all the time. I don't normally care as long as I get my point acrossed; however, I feel a lot more...

Well, I can understand what it's trying to say, but that construction would sound ridiculous on this side of the Atlantic. Although, I suppose if you said it with an English accent, we'd be so enthralled by the accent, that we would overlook the grammar.

Hi KooyeenThere is nothing to forgive! I am certainly not in the least offended by your post. In fact, I enjoyed reading it tremendously! I even agree with you to some extent on some of the points you made. I am the first person to admit that my knowledge of English isn't as good as that of a...

I believe this question is best answered by someone who sees it from the former learner's point of view because natives don't have to go through the seemingly impossible phases that the ESL learners must go through. To put it in perspectives I would offer the following for your reference: ...