KK (Kenyon & Knott) is a phonetic system popular in Taiwan (and, I think, nowhere else) for representing the sounds of American English. It's very close to the IPA, anyway. Phonics is a theory & practice for teaching children

Hi Hohhot! I'm glad to see a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia here. I'm from the independent Mongolia. And I've been to the Inner Mongolian border city, Erenhot, en route to Beijing. I heard people speaking Inner Mongolian there and it

non-English-speaking English-speaking gorgeous beautiful really a chunk, really muscular, how can it be really strong, really tough guy appealing attractive not so

(I followed the link Sitifan/Teo provided in another forum to this thread) > "I spent one hundred(*1) dollars to buy the skirt." How about saying it as a stand-alone sentence? Someone said this sentence sounded like there's more

Your impression might be wrong. Most students from China think American English is easier to understand and better in sounds. I figure the reason is we are much much more familiar with American culture anyway. take an example,Ive been seeing US

I happened to find "refuse collector" on one of my dictionaries, and it is given with the label British . I wonder 1) what's the equivalent in American English? 2) whether I can say "recycle?/recycling collector" to mean

Oh, what a great answers these are! When I don't know some sentence, then I imagine anything very literally. In that case, almost every guessing goes wrong. Because I don't have much information about different culture, history and their

I was recently chastised for composing a post to an American tax-related USENET newsgroup using "do do" in one of ... I ask you American english experts: Is the use of "do do" a no no in an American English sentence? It's

Susan Grossman schrieb: I was recently chastised for composing a post to an American tax-related USENET newsgroup using "do do" in one of ... I ask you American english experts: Is the use of "do do" a no no in an American

Is this is one of your "literate, educated persons", Franke? I don't have any literate, educated persons in my pocket at the moment, nor do I have a list of ... that I might? Are you trying to smear me by falsely associating me