By Dialects, English as a second language

Hello, no I am not recruting for a bosnian army I am doing a report on bosnian-american accents and dialects. If anyone who is bosnian and has learned english as a second language could talk to me and hopefully send an audio of a reading THAT would be very great!!! The report is on a DVD in...

Just who would that "we" be?The "we" being most other speakers of other dialects of English. When "we" hear Indian-English, especially in places where that is very rare, such as here, we simply perceive it as being an English as a Second language non-native speaker of English, with grammar and...

Marvin A. <I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "vernacular speakers".> Those that speak a dialect which is not the standard or prestige form. <Do you mean native speakers?> In general, yes - ESL (English as a Second Language) teachers already teach nonnatives world over, so we...

Something I find a little strange is when English learners decide to learn an accent of British English (for example the poster who said he had learnt Cockney English for 4 years). Why would you do that? I've also heard that people are learning Estuary English. OK, very few people speak RP...

Guest, I think you are in some form of denial. Of all the countries you've mentioned other than America and Britain, I believe that only in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa can it be said that English is the predominant language. While I would agree that the English spoken in Australia...

English is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language. It is the...