By Conversations, Accents

Re: Could you check my pronunciation, please?

.Hello, Prez1dent.The volume is very low-- I had both my computer volume and the MP3 volume up full, and still would have liked it to be a little louder.After going over it several times, I still missed a few words. Your pronunciation is OK, but you definitely have a Slavic accent. Some words...

Re: ancestry

I'd also find it a bit odd to ask this in a business situation. If you were in a friendly informal conversation it might be a bit different. However - generally speaking we only ask about people's background if they have an accent that is obviously 'foreign'. Then you can say...

Speaking with native speaker

Hi my EF friends, Please I'm just curious, have you ever spoken with an native english speaker? What kind of problems did you have during the dialog with an native english speaker? Share your experiences..Personally, I have experiences with speaking with people from UK and US. For example,...

Re: I Want To Be Fluent English Speaker How Please?

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...

Re: Gramatical Mistakes Common to Chinese English-speakers

Hblaw wrote: Hi all, My native language is Chinese and I am learning English as a foreign language. I am wondering if you could name a few mistakes that are commonly seen in Chinese people who speak/write English as a second language, so that I can be more conscious in avoiding them in the...

How can a non-native English speaker improves his accent

Hi friends greetings to you all Is it really important that a non-native English speaker should speak almost(99%) like that of a Native English speaker.I mean the ACCENT.Or is it OK if a non-native was good in pronounciation,fluency,vocabulary and grammar.Which is really...

Re: Imitating accents

Hmm, I think the purpose of imitating an accent is to entertain, isn't it? So the accents don't have to be perfect, they just need to be very close to the original ones.If you want to do a perfect accent... heh, that's practically impossible. Let's suppose people from Houston TX have a particular...

Re: Please, give me a hand with my questions.

1) "We were paid more in tips than on hours."; 2) The employee receives (or earns ? ) U$ 12,00 per hour; (in this case are both verbs acceptable ?); either is ok 3) Nowadays the students have much better Polish than three years ago; ok 4) Should we say on the beginning or in the beginning ? ;...

Please, give me a hand with my questions.

Hello, Here some questions I'd like you could correct : 1) "We were paid more on tips than on hours."; 2) The employee receives (or earns ? ) U$ 12,00 per hour; (in this case are both verbs acceptable ?); 3) Nowadays the students have much better Polish than three years ago; 4) Should we...

Re: married/got married

Well, Bokeh - I am certainly not 'lower class', went to a private school, am well-educated, and speak with a Standard British Southern accent. In everyday conversation I would always say "we got married in November" rather than "we married in November" or "we were married in November", although...