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Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...

Hector9 wrote:Hello guysI did some excercises and I saw these cases:-I´m in room 128 (One hundred Twenty Eight) <---- The speaker says thisFor a hotel room number (also a house number), I'd most likely say it this way: "I'm in room one twenty-eight." ("I live at one twenty-eight Main...

Google: 0 for "turn in your book to page" 754 for "turn your book to page" Thus only 1 works. Now, if you mean: Turn, in your student book, to the pronunciation guide on page 4. with commas, this means a different thing, similar to your 1. Perhaps this is what the teacher...

Not afraid of taking risks? I am afraid! I'm afraid to make mistakes and then keep on making them. It's difficult to get rid of certain mistakes you've been making for a long time. I knew it had to be "stop learning", but it slipped out, ooops. Anyway, thanks for pointing it out, I think that...

purest forms of English pronunciation: Purest forms? Wrong, I'd say, very often wrong. Now, Kooyeen, before you get yourself worked up into a dither, read it again. Note that there is no comma before where. It's a restrictive clause. Does that help? CJ

Hi AnonI'm not sure I understand your first question, but I assume you want to know how you would pronounce the grades or scores. First of all, I would like to mention that we would not use a comma, but rather a decimal point (which looks the same as a period or full stop). As to pronunciation,...

Well this conversation is ancient, but maybe you get a tickler when someone replies adn will find this. The guy's accent is crap. I'm Canadian but I'm from Toronto where our accent is *almost* standard American (or what we called in the film business Mid-west Flat) and I can tell you a few...

1. "He immediately placing me in the marzipan (almost uppermost) layer of the British social fruist cake. "[See the society as as a cake with several layers. You're at the top, in the (presumed) best layer. Or perhaps it's the most crusty/most rigid layer. Not sure. But I think you've cut the...

I'd like to add that although the pronunciation is common in the U.S., the use of it in writing (except in dialogue) makes me CRAZY. To me, it is just laziness and a lack of respect to the people who are reading what you write. In my opinion, it's far too commonly used here (in things like "I...