I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

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

Cai Jingshu, 14, loves English. She reads English newspapers every week and often tries to talk with foreigners from other countries. “Many of us want to study abroad and find out more about English language culture,” said the girl. However,

I'm trying to teach someone(of Chinese origin) how to pronounce "L" but they can only say "R" instead. Any tips/help/ideas on how to help them pronounce the letter correctly? Thanks in advance...

hi Ben, Polish phonology is rather adventurous, that's right. But it does not make English any simplier. It is just that with some languages you have to be able to produce special sounds and train your hearing to understand them (e.g. Polish,

Two years too late, the correct way to use the idiom is "all of a sudden." American and British use of quotations is also different. Americans are taught for the most part that a period (full-stop) is used inside the quote, unless used

Thank you for the prompt reply and information which was very helpful. My family and I live in Malaysia and we have concluded that in this part of the world either one of those spellings will ultimately evoke a mispronunciation. We have reconciled

Welcome to EF. You can ask grammatical questions on this forum. There are several other forums for discussions, problems in pronunciation etc. You could start by learning that all words which are names of languages are capitalized in E nglish:

The main reason it that many of the HK ppl ... name and they often write the wrong email address too. Be proud of your Chinese name. Pressuring you to change your name to something with a more English sound is just a form of cultural imperialism,

The main reason it that many of the HK ppl are employed by the branchoffice of european company ,and these ppl who can speak both English and Chinese often make mistakes on our Chinese name and they often write the wrongemail address too. Be proud