Dear English Forum ! Thank you for this extremenly useful site you doing a great job. I hope to achieve your level of English some day. I see you as a role model for my English studies. -- I am appling to my dream job, there are hundreds of

I have taught English as a Second language to new learners. The question/answer pair "What is this?" / "This is a ..."  is lesson 2 (after introductions "Hello, my name is...", "What's your name?") t

I teach English as a Second Language to adults who come to the U.S. as employees of various international companies. More than once, in working with an engineer, especially, this question has come up and I've not had an answer. Now I will be

I don't know what you guys are all on about with devoiced /z/. It's not a devoiced /z/, it's just /s/. In the example that someone above used, "vases"... I don't know about up North or across the pond (either one), but American Standard has that

Welcome to English Forums! ESL - English as a Second Language - primarily for those students who are already living in a place where the dominant language in English. They need to use English just to survive in their daily lives. CJ

Clive wrote: many British people don't even think of themselves as part of Europe That's just slum prudery. The fact is they are part of Europe geographically and after several referenda, all with positive outcomes, the UK is a key player in

yeah all the schools teach English as a second language do you know what the difference between native language and second language?..Simple