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Hi ThereJust wanted to let people know of a FREE TO USE website which may help people learning the English Language.The website is www.ipicthat.com, it is the world's first online talking picture dictionary. The site basically comprises of a ‘dictionary’ of approximately 5,500 words in an A-Z...

Cool article Barb! Yeah right, Lana, LOL! A Chinese said so! Did you ever find an American who started learning Chinese after high school and said... "Oh, yeah, it's so simple!" Pretty much impossible! Seriously, my opinion is that English is already an international language and...

When I started learning English, I had no idea there were things like American and British English. I just knew that English was the name of the language people used in films. I was very excited as I was going to learn to speak the language of Hollywood. Actually, I reckon I had no idea what...

Anonymous wrote:Well, I have encountered this problem recently. I had been learning english for few years, then I stopped attending courses or lessons, I have been learning at home and watching American TV series and movies.. so I have picked up a lot of vocabulary. So far, so good. Then I...

Well, I have encountered this problem recently. I had been learning english for few years, then I stopped attending courses or lessons, I have been learning at home and watching American TV series and movies.. so I have picked up a lot of vocabulary. So far, so good. Then I realised,...

Hello Hamoody, Welcome to the forum. I think people were a little bit daunted by the number of questions here, you might get more response if you ask everything separately. let's start with days, months and year. on a day (on Wednesday) but in a month or year (in September, in 1987). i am on...

Hi,here are my comments, quick comments. The first thing that comes to my mind...1- Why English is the most predominant language nowadays? Why has it become a global language? Because most companies that deal with technology or software are in the US. Technology and science = English. 2-Many...

and an ignorant American would look at British and pronounce practise (Br. spelling) like practize.... Highly unlikely.Americans on the other hand, have been butchering it for centuries and should not be consulted when learning this language. It is, after all, English and not American.Rubbish. ...

I'm desperately intrigued to know as how long the following people took in learning new accent, particularly those who learnt broad British English accent.Who did they take their lessons from & how long it took them to learn their new English accent ???>> Mike Myers (American to...

I heard the audio on the website of BBC learning English and the Loman Dictionary of Contemporary English, they are not very different. I think that just the shapes of speaker's mouth are different, the voice isn't so different in British English(Pay attention here, in British English, not...