By Pronunciation, Grammar

SillyMe wrote:Hello,I just don't understand why you people are obsessed that much with your accents. For me there is only one thing seems important that is to be understood. I doesn't matter how you sound unless you are a stage performer. If we are foreigners we are supposed to speak with a...

there are a lot of pronunciation courses. Here's a website where you can download quite many of them (both a book and an audio): englishtips.org

Thanks, anon. Without your post, I would have missed this thread. Goodman wrote:Hi CJ, What an impressive thread you have posted. You have slowly made me a fan of yours. Yep! CalifJim wrote: In any case, the struggle for the learner is always making the conversion from 'computing'...

Kooyeen wrote:I think I've never seen a question mark in those kind of sentences... non natives maybe put it at the end. Maybe natives do too, but because they can't write, not because they don't know English and can't speak.How come you haven't? Oh, I have seen them so many times in the Grammar...

Hi, What does solid rhythm mean ? Sometimes it goes with the word section - solid rhythm section. Perhaps it has some special meaning in musical terminology, I don't know. However, I think it means that the rhythm section, ie the people in the band who play the rhythm, are very competent and...

Milky wrote:Cool Breeze, is there any concrete evidence which shows that English was any more difficult to learn in the past than it is now?I don't think I can answer that question. There is only evidence that English grammar was more complicated in the past. What is easy for some may be...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

Hoey's extension: I would suggest that to know a word such as consequence is, at the very least, to know the answers to the following nine questions about the word: 1 What does consequence mean? (meaning) 2 How is consequence used grammatically? (grammar) 3 How is...

accent: a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with...

Thethenothere123 wrote:I feel as though the AmE vs. BrE distinction is largely exaggerated by non-native English speakers.Like a previous poster commented, your focus should be on using proper grammar and working to improve your pronunciation rather than worrying about the minor differences in...