If vowels in a language are few,then it is hard to understand that language. and as I said "Because the consonants are mostly pronounced loose that makes it hard to recognise the words." No, because "few vowels" means there

Hi Nickydee: Please don't use all the different color highlights in your postings. It makes your question difficult to understand. I have put some causes in line. You have correctly identified the errors. Hi i have done the following:

I'm Italian, Yeah, I bet. For the record, here's the opening lines of a letter I wrote on the 6th July. "Dear Toni..." For a group with this volume of activity the balance of probability suggests that's rather too

I have a number of Chinese students, who have great difficulties pronouncing some phonemes such as the consonant "r" . ... creatively but cannot roll their "r"s. . Are there some L2 phonemes impossible to learn by certain L1

I have a number of Chinese students, who have great difficulties pronouncing some phonemes such as the consonant "r" . I know how to make Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, ... speaking students to soften their "r" by making them

Wonder about the Russian language thesaurus. I've read that the Russian language is the toughest to learn. I had a wonderful book on the origins of language. The author said "What to learn Russian? Be born in Russia!" To use the old

by to me to >>require >>> working with a linguistic >>therapist >>in a language >>laboratory. Am I >>> write in ... norms. So we should all stop >>> worrying about third person -s, and whether

For the most part I agree. When a person here speaks in a Boston accent (for example) I would not consider their speech wrong unless they were trying to speak with something other than a Boston accent. Two of my favorite examples of accent

Raf, your question is kind of strange, given the fact that many educated Britons do not even pronounce the "r" in "world." However, I've heard a lot of people ask the same question. The biggest problem is that the /r/ sound

At 19:22:12 on Fri, 4 Mar 2005, HB (Email Removed) wrote in : Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone name a few English dialects? We always learned (translator school in Flanders) that English had many accents, not dialects, the only dialect we ever