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

As an ESL teacher, I have run into the dynamic-stative continuous form problem regularly. My colleagues and I disagree. The way I explain this concept to my students is by trying to clarify that there are two kinds of grammar in the English

("well" is an adjective here). No, 'well' is an ADVERB here, just as it likes to be. In this sentence, well describes feel, the verb, and that is why the ADVERB is the correct choice. Adjectives generally do not

And how about hafta, gotta, gonna, wanna, shoulda... even on the news - Peter Jennings started using them on the evening news! If I fully enunciated "have to" "going to", "want to" and other common reductions in a

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Dear friends, I have been struggling with a movie which has not script. I have do decipher all words and make subtitle. In this sense, I need a native person who can listen the wav files which lasts 30 sec to 1 min to decipher for me. those

There is a tremendous amount of research going on all the time in linguistics, but I know of none that has enquired whether standard speakers are smarter than non-standard. Now I wonder why that is? Since the issue is a little too hot to touch,

I think everybody code-switches to some degree, as long as there is some sort of reason to do so in their society. It doesn't mean they use two dialects just as a bilingual uses two languages, because people often respond to dialect as if it

ly Hi Ramona and welcome to the forums Applying Application for the position of School Secretary My name is Ramona Westling and I'm 24 years old. I saw your ad on Arbetsförmedlingens website and instantly knew that this job is

(Email Removed) schrieb: Hello, This my first post to this group. I was asked a question by a friend of mine: Why is ... use one over the other. I don't personally think such a rule exists, but does anyone know the answer definitively? As you