By Accents, Speaking English

After years of speaking English, it's not changed much. No matter how hard I try, I can't control my tongue. My English teacher in Korea once said it's nearly impossible to correct the accent once you become an adult, and I believe it now. Maybe I should give up and just stick with...

Hi, I can't play this link. But generally speaking, I can't listen to someone speaking English and decide clearly that they are Canadian. Best wishes, Clive

Yeah, but I was only considering two "general varieties" with their transcriptions, the ones you find in dictionaries. If you start to consider all the varieties, you'll never stop. I just noticed a mistake......I meant to write that in BrE it's more like /aʊ/.There sure are...

It really depends on the individual. I've met several people that moved to the US from non-English speaking countries when they were 15 or 16 and have a perfect American accent. I've also met a fair number of people that moved to the US in their early-mid twenties and have very minimal...

Hi,#1. Since accent is a countable noun, we need 'a' for both heavy accent and heavier accent.#2. I prefer 'hesitancy in responding'.Besides the above comments, both sentences have a run-on problem. There are more than one way to reword them; and here is my suggestion:Student1 had...

Hello I hvae a several questions.Thank youI do not know if I should put " a" before heavier accent" ?"hesitancy doing sth" or hesitancy at doing sth? which one is correct? 1. Student1 had heavy accent, showed much more hesitancy responding to the question, and expressed...

Hi there,What is known as "Received pronounciation" in the UK is seen as the "posh" way of speaking English. This is how the Queen speaks, and was the way all TV presenters had to speak a few decades ago.Nowadays, there is no standard accent for teaching children the UK, and there is no authority...

Hi Thorhath,it is interesting to know that 40% of the English vocabulary is from the French language, I could tell some examples: air, age, departement,...But I don't exactly know what you mean with "sound the same"? Do you mean the phonetic? If so, then I'd say, that French and English don't...

Hey CBIt was a rhetorical question. Read Post :399013 for example.The example I use in Post :427999 is actually a French structure (my mother tongue) that I am trying, with little success considering my effort, to learn. This means the English structure connects far better for me than the French...