Dear friend, * London is different of Hong Kong - incorrect; London is different from/to Hong Kong - correct; *In Argentina, Christmas celebrations are completely different as the ones in England - incorrect; In Argentina, Christmas celebrations

He means towards is British English, while toward is American English. Hi, I hear a lot of US born "native speakers" of English add the "s," but in the forties, when I was in "grammar school," they gave us 'ell

It's Merriam Webster Collegiate for native speakers of American English, and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary for ESL students. The most complete in the world (but also unnecessarily

The problem isn’t producing an R-sound, I can produce the retroflex approximant easily and well, but it seems impossible to produce the r-sound demonstrated here on the page of the University of Iowa:

Yes, the accent (and even vocabulary) of American English differs from region to region of the country. Some people respectfully and humbly suggest that foreign students try to speak like native speakers who live on the West Coast (Washington,

Leaving Certificate Exam is an exam that you have to take after high/secondary school in Ireland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaving_certificate I just want to know if the structure of the sentence is ok. "I passed English

It seems to me entirely reasonable that if students of English from Tierra del Fuego meet students of English from Japan that when they meet each group will expect the other group to speak the same language. Many of such students are

Hello, everybody! I'm a student of English who needs your help with some idioms in order to analyse them for my graduation paper. The topic of my research is synonymy among idiomatic expressions. For the purpose of this research I have

In British English, I would choose the same, Fandorin. But American English is less certain. "They met at the university" would be more commonly preferred.

I can only answer from the viewpoint of American English. pupil is not used much anymore, no. My grandfather may have used that term, but I don't. We almost always say student instead. ______ The word should be spelled indefinite , not