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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 everyone, I read some articles about this, not long ago. Clive wrote:Is grammar essential for learning a language? The answer is NO, NO, NO. Bird of Paradise, the book you read is right. We didn't learn the grammar of our first language before we were able to use it. I believe no...

Hi, I am very intrested to learn English with proper way... So pls send the any free grammer software...

HiI’ve been trying to learn English by listening and reading. But there are some sentences that I don’t understand. For example, “There’s not a girl in town who wouldn’t love to be in your shoes” and “The goes the baker with his tray like always”( two sentences of the cartoon film “Beauty and...

Hi Kooyeen,It's a combination of all these types of listening: from listening for every single syllable or even sound to listening only through your subconscious mind (if you concentrate on doing something entirely different while having a dialog playing in the background). Don't worry about...

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...

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. You don't seem to recognize or understand the 'input/output principle. I do hope you find that article that reveals scientific findings. Maybe you...

Kooyeen,How did you learn your mother tongue? Why do native speakers know what 'sounds right' and what doesn't? Do you understand how the 'input/output' principle works? Why do you think you can learn a second language any differently than you learned your native language? Do you have any idea...

Hey there again,yeah, I wasn't really saying you are a "prescriptivist" (what a bad word, don't you think? ), it's just that, as you said, "you view any language from a grammatical standpoint", while I tend to be less interested in grammar rules. So it's easy to understand that the result is I...

Rishonly wrote: Hi Sheik, I speak Tamil but I don't know the web sites that teach English through Tamil. However, there are several grammar books that teach English through Tamil language , and they are available in most of the book stores in TamilNadu,India. You can buy a book , read the...