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It is often true that many private teachers touting themselves as native speakers abroad don't have much more linguistic knowledge than any other fellow countryman but the alternative is not appealing either: linguistically educated foreigners who, while they can teach grammar, and the whys...

Although these two seem unlikely in informal conversation, they are grammatically preferred: At which university are you studying? Which university is it where you are studying?

Hello Roro Again Roro wrote:And while your traveling, what did you see in Russia (in USSR then). You've been in Moscow & Leningrad, and more? how long? You know Russian well, then you saw, experienced a lot, I guess. You need not answer those questions in this thread, maybe I'll seek...

Hi everybody, When Special Fen start this conversation, he asked the opinion about use of computers in education. I would like to come back to the first topic. My last job was as CIO of the Secretary of Education of São Paulo State. We have 6.000 schools under the unique administration, half...

I know Paco through many on-line conversations, so I know he is more than capable of comprehending a complex English sentence. The question is subtle and requires some subtlety to answer it. I'm sure, from my past experience with this student, that he understands at the level I have given the...

My Dear Reader, Keep in mind that My Four Failures ( read the above ) made me HATE English to the death!! I hated Reading because I was reading yet understanding nothing!! I hated Writing because I did not know how to write. Plus, spelling was my worst enemy. I hated Speaking because people...

I'm wiritng a short Spanish Story. And there is in this story a fragment I want the main character to speak in English. He is a distinguished professor at a university. An one of his theories, the Group-Interaction Contribution Method (how chemical groups interact among them) has appeared in the...

Roro, thank you for your time. Hello, and thank you for your question, Professor Ruzinsky! I am not a professor. That title is reserved for high ranking teachers at universities which I am not. In the USA, a Ph.D. carries a title of "Dr." but I prefer that you simply call me by my registered...

No, it is because Jack Richards or Cambridge University Press thinks that it sounds more like 'real English in real use' if the word 'conversation' is used. Conversations are dialogues and dialogues are conversations; 'dialogue' is a somewhat more linguistic term.

Hi I'm new to USA and my grammar's bad. This is a 8th grade paper based on the reading of Tuesdays with morrie. If you can help me find some grammar errors i'll be very glad. Thx again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A...