I guess anyone can almost immediately tell that Clive is a native speaker while I am not, without even listening to the end of the voice recordings. Why is this so? Specifically, these are the "Asian speaker" giveaways: stu dents, labora

You are writing it correctly. Italicise foreign words in English text. Include any accents. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing 2009, pages 84 and 100.

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I believe we write the school subjects in lower case . E.g.: I study g eography and m ath on Mondays and Fridays. I study h istory and s cience on Wednesdays. Correct. You may sometimes see people capitalising these words, but

Hi Ellisa, I'm not sure I agree with your use of the word "fluent" here, which seems to imply only the accent/pronuciation. There are native speakers who don't speak fluently, even though their pronunication is fine,

Hi Jeeza The first question you mut ask yourself is whether you want to speak British English or American English. I'm not a big fan of Hollywood, so I'll presume that you'd like to speak like an Englishman from what we term the

Well, here's an interesting way: Start watching movies and listening to music only in English. Try to get the subtitles and lyrics to go along. That should help you in a lot of ways especially the accent. Besides, you should start thinking in

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

Dear dutch rapper)) first of all, english vocabulary is not so difficult.. practice, practice and once again practice..  u asking how to learn american accent?.. u already said u r rapper.. so why not to start listening to american rappers, read

Hi Thanks for the reply Avangi. I'll give you more context to my second question: Growing up I had two different accents, one I would use to communicate with my family, a soft Welsh lilt, the other for my friends, featuring the