American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

In the States, we come up with new lingos and idioms all the time, no? I don't know. I've never seen "no" used as a sentence tag that way, for example. I was told that "yes?" would sound like "mexican" or

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

To Martin: In my ESL class, people have difficulties with all sorts of things. "F" becomes "p", "i" becomes "a", etc. "Not" may easily become "nat" for people, especially if they

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

<By all means let local varieties develop, but keeping learners away from Standard English as a matter of policy is nothing short of illiberal. > I thought it was more of a case of the Standard English speaking world keeping ESL

NSEspeaker: My car needs washed. SE speaker: What? I do not understand you. There was a posting recently exactly with this syntax. The people who commented never said that the NSE line would not be understood, only that it was characteristic

C'mon, Forbes, tell it as it is. Right. I will. I said: "All native English speakers really ought to be able to speak to each other without too much difficulty." What I meant was that most native speakers of English are

Thank you very much people, I really appreciate all the answers. First, does anyone know how to multi-quote? I've seen them in a single post before. Clive said: " Most Westerners, including me, have the understanding that

Pter - the pronunciation of words depends heavily on a person's dialect. k in asked - variable pronunciation - I say - askt (some dialects say "axt") t in acts, ducts, students - I pronounce the "t", but very muted. l in