Hello, my name is Jeff and I'm from the United States. Pennsylvania to be exact. I am a 16 year old male. I would like to meet Japanese people looking for help with English. I would like to go to a university for teaching English to Japanese

Congratulations on your enthusiasm in such a complicated hobby. It is not necessary to have an American accent, but is more important to be able to pronounce words correctly so that others will understand you. To acquire a complete American accent

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You, mctastic, truly didn't understand the point of the quotation that precedes the word "Handey." If you would notice, then you would have realized that "Handey" is actually the American humorist Jack Handey. Why else would someone put the word

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

As we're talking 'Linguistic Imperialism', I thought this might be relevant to the discussion... It's an excerpt from something I wrote a few years ago regarding the British Council and its role in ELT... “A knowledge of English gives rise in

Hi guys I have no intention to offend anyone, but the article below is the one I found online. Do you believe this is a true story? The use of "the" in terms like "going to hospital/the hospital" is usually ascribed to the influence of Irish

Dear friend, I've just read your mail. Your questions is very interesting. Learning english as a second language can be a hard subject, but depend on your previous environment. Depend on your mother tonge. I mean, languages have a core

I am one of those people who learned American English as a second language. American English dictionaries never mention anything about a particular noun being countable and uncountable. I learned mass nouns and abstract nouns, both of

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