By Accents, Teaching English

Hello Everyone! I have been teaching English as a second language for over 10 years - in South Korea, Japan, and in my home country of Canada. I was raised in an English-speaking family so my accent is a native speaker's accent. I really want to continue teaching ESL but I can't leave my...

Hi Nympha, I sent an email to Arvin and Eric a few days ago through this website --- but then I realized that their emails were dated a few months back so I dont know if they'll be reading our emails soon. Unfortunately, accent reduction trainng cannot be done by reading books alone - you'd...

Hi Arvin and Eric: My name is Carol W. I'm currently finishing-up my certification on ESL (teaching English as a Second Language) at Berkeley University, CA. In the past 10 years, I've had a couple of successful businesses that made me travel between the Philippines (and other parts of Asia)...

I would like to received the book on teaching english language and accent in the Philippines. Thanks,

My name is Paula. I am a qualified and experienced English language teacher. I hold a BA degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford as well as the Trinity College London Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign (Second) Language (TESOL). My private lessons are offered in a...

I was wondering how useful it is to have school teaching experience to teach second language users the language. If one has been an English teacher in schools and has dealt with syllabi on literature and language - can it translate to the learning of phonetics and accent training to second...

Hi Malloren I am Odalis Manuel Sanchez from the Dominican Republic, I am an Audio Linguistic Student always looking for an acurate english accent and I have been succesful through this method. I have never been to the States and I wish you could hear my accent which is not an excelent one...

I was born and grow up here in Vietnam. I agree with some of you that the accent is not very good but not all the learners. 10 years ago, the most prominent foreign language is Russian and now it is English. French is studied and well used by a lot of people here for nearly 100 years. Anyway,...

I personally think its all up to the person whether they want willing enough to go the extra miles of learning their language and culture. i'm viet as well, born in New Zealand, yet my accent is as great as a native vietnamese ... the difficulties I have are the vocabulary and all the jargons...

I have been thinking about this global language problem for a long time. I'm Swiss and my mother tongue is Swiss German, and have been teaching English to the Japanese community in Thailand for about 16 years now. Being exposed to the Thais who after having had English lessons from their Thai...