By Accents, Conversations

. I would consider this exercise damagingly prescriptive; most are neither uniquely Filipino nor wrong. However (and my comments refer to AmE/BrE):1. Free subscription of... (Free subscription to…) - prepo issue-- AmE/BrE uses the collocation subscribe to.2. Can I speak with…? (May I speak...

Has anyone heard about Filipinisms/Filipinoism? Hi guys. In the call center industry, it refers to terms/phrases used by Filipinos in speaking and in writing (sometimes). They gave me a list with corrections and assigned me to send one Filipinism with corrections weekly. However, in my opinion,...

The British accent sounds better in my ears but oddly the words come out easily during any conversation if I put on the American one..

Yes, indeed sir, but there's hardly any proving such, for there be few souls who be able to legislate well on what we must and must not be doing in such and such an accent. It be one of the ways in which the talk of gentlefolk is different than that of us country lads. We surely have no...

Hello, sirs. I be applying to join in your conversations. I have noticed that those around me what tend to stick with dialect do tend to be those fellows who consciously reject the education what is provided by the centre. I humbly submit, sirs, that those who uses dialects do in fact tend to be...

.Hello, Prez1dent.The volume is very low-- I had both my computer volume and the MP3 volume up full, and still would have liked it to be a little louder.After going over it several times, I still missed a few words. Your pronunciation is OK, but you definitely have a Slavic accent. Some words...

I'd also find it a bit odd to ask this in a business situation. If you were in a friendly informal conversation it might be a bit different. However - generally speaking we only ask about people's background if they have an accent that is obviously 'foreign'. Then you can say...

Hi my EF friends, Please I'm just curious, have you ever spoken with an native english speaker? What kind of problems did you have during the dialog with an native english speaker? Share your experiences..Personally, I have experiences with speaking with people from UK and US. For example,...

Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...

Hblaw wrote: Hi all, My native language is Chinese and I am learning English as a foreign language. I am wondering if you could name a few mistakes that are commonly seen in Chinese people who speak/write English as a second language, so that I can be more conscious in avoiding them in the...