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First, study a lot to improve your grammar and enrich your vocabulary. Second, do as many things as you can in English. This includes reading books and magazines, watching films and TV programmes, listening to music and radio etc. Third, improve your pronunciation (practice, practice, practice!)....

Hi, my English is not good at all, really, but I'm improving. If you want to know how I improved and how I'm improving, then... let's just say I used to read some stuff in Practical English Usage by Michael Swan and English Grammar in Use (Cambridge University Press), but then I stopped relying...

Milky wrote: <Wouldn't that mean that the Indians then would have to learn Chinese and US English?> Depends on the competition. The Chinese and Americans now want to do business with India. Well then, you have your answer. That's precisely why Indians must learn American...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

Englishuser wrote: A non-native speaker who has immersed himself or herself with highbrow literature written in a foreign language could very well have a more vivid vocabulary and a better knowledge of the grammar of the language than the average native speaker. At least as far as the 'standard...

Hey there Hesham, I'm your neighbor from Israel Hope you ain't got a prob with that :} Much like you I'm incredibly interested in being able to speak english as if it were my own mother tongue... Generally I think it's very much possible... However not everyone IMHO can do that... I...

I'm Egyptian and very interested in English I'm only 16 years and aim to speak English better than Americans. A very praiseworthy aim! However, you should remember that all native speakers of English speak it perfectly and you cannot improve on perfection. I expect you mean that you are...

Hi There Guys, I've been studying english since I was 13 and It is really good language, Now I am 16 and I'll spend from now to 3 years in front to learn english deeply from Grammar to Vocabulary to Slang to American accent to pronunciation and I'll take CPE(( Certificate of proficiency in...

In reply to the original query, it's possible to get rid of your accent by watching TV a lot. Try to mimic how they speak and sound in various English TV programs. If you work hard enough, you may get an authentic-sounding American accent in no time at all. But this may not work if your native...

I think that the British people sound somewhat "American" when singing because when they speak, their consonants are much more harder than in the American accent(s) but when singing you just have to somewhat soften the consonants... I'm neither British nor American so I can be telling rubbish....