Very interesting. Phonemes helped me a lot, but if I had known the expression "un" I might have understood correctly. From Longman: (BrE spoken) a short form of 'one', used to say that someone or something is good, bad etc. As

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

TinyPixie, you are absolutely correct about the use of these prepositions, but there exists one nuance that you should take into consideration. Thus, on is used for giving phone numbers in British English, eg : Call us on 0800 0900017 , while at

I just thought ealrier today that "th" and "d" in fast unclear speech must be indistinguishable, after I heard something on youtube. I'll try to find it again. (EDIT: On second thought I think that depends a lot on the

"It needs cleaned." is characterisitic of a regional dialect of American English. Standard English places the "to be" after need.

I have never heard anything like that in American English (yet). As Alienvoord says, that's problably a feature of some dialects... But I don't know which dialects... Where could I hear something like that, Alienvoord?

Hi Anon You're opening a big can of worms here. This website is global and, as such, is not a Standard English devoted site. In fact, most of the users of this site seem to use American English. As an English teacher, born in England and

If you think "opporchunity" is hard to imagine, try "prositchution." I think the reason we American English speakers are so befuddled by this is that's it's easy to imagine why a dialect would adopt a variation of (what

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

Whilst both 'gotten' and 'forgotten' are Americanisms in one sense, the latter is used with increasing frequency in post-WW2 Britain, in which American language has had a stronger influence. It is a falsehood that