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Learn English grammar through Tamil

KBthi — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:48:29 GMT

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"Glad I am" instead of "I'm glad"

Joe Crescoll — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:23:34 GMT

Hey guys. This is my first message here and I just wanna tell that I'm glad to find these forums

Well, I heard many times, watching movies or series in English, people say "glad I am" when I'm actually used to say "I'm glad".

So, my question is when are supposed to do this inversion ? In which case ?

An example : "Can't tell you how glad I am he had a friend here with him."

Thanks, see ya

internet sites are the best source

User_gary — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:38:56 GMT

As far as I know internet sites are the best source to learn English grammar because there is no one book in the world which covers entire topics of grammar as Internet sites do. Therefore I personally request you to learn grammar from internet and not depend on your grammar book.

Please correct my sentences.

Re: About English Grammer

Philip — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:02:16 GMT

Lakshmi.guduru wrote:

Hi All,

Could you please tell me the best book to learn English grammar.

Regards,
Lakshmi

Wow! Difficult question. I would suggest that you contact a bookstore near a college or university and see what is currently being used there. There are people here who are actively involved in teaching at institutions or privately, and they will probably have some suggestions as well.

Welcome to English Forums. [I believe your name means 'money'. Am I correct?]

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

Cool Breeze — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:26:00 GMT

Milky wrote:
Cool Breeze, is there any concrete evidence which shows that English was any more difficult to learn in the past than it is now?

I don't think I can answer that question. There is only evidence that English grammar was more complicated in the past. What is easy for some may be difficult for others. For example, people who have a good ear for music usually have fewer problems with the pronunciation of English but may struggle with its grammar. For some learning English grammar is a breeze but they can never get the pronunciation right.

In my opinion it goes without saying that the fewer inflections there are, the less time it takes to learn them. For myself, I am living proof of that - it took me less time to learn English grammar than Latin grammar.

Some say that learning the German adjectives is a tough job. People who say that have never studied a grammatically complicated language.

CB

Re: English Grammar books(pdf)

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:29:42 GMT

I want to learn english in easy way I think this can helps me

Re: Language-related misunderstandings

Cool Breeze — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:19:03 GMT

I took a summer job in England to learn English after I had graduated from school. My duties included serving drinks from the hotel pub to people who preferred to have their drinks in the lounges next to Reception. I had been there just a few days and was getting accustomed to many things that differed from what I was used to. You might call it cultural acclimatisation.

I was on duty one afternoon when a British couple sitting in the TV lounge wanted drinks. Hearing a lot of British accents in a short time hadn't made it at all easier for me to understand different varieties of English from all over the British Isles. I thought the man wanted a gin and ale, and I don't remember what his wife ordered. A gin and ale seemed like a rather strange drink to me but it didn't bother me for long. These people cooked their food in the most mysterious ways and I had no shower in my bathroom, just a bath tub, so who was I to judge their drinks!

The Spanish bartender, Manuel, who had been in England longer than me (seven months), wondered about the gin and ale, but gave it to me. When I took the drinks into the lounge it turned out that the man had ordered ginger ale, not gin and ale. I had never heard the word because in Finland no one drinks ginger ale. And I was too young to know about all kinds of drinks anyway.

Of course I offered to take the gin and ale back to the pub but the man said he was actually thirsty and would gladly drink the gin if I brought him a tonic water for a mixer. I did that on the house.

Other than this misunderstanding, I did just fine on the job. I had a good grasp of English grammar but the various accents caused me some problems. And of course my vocabulary could have been larger when I began working.

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:50:13 GMT

The reason English is so difficult is because it's such a mishmosh language. Like a bad school-cafeteria casserole, it's got bits and pieces derived from many different languages, both existing and dead. It's primarily German, French, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon, but there's some old Celtic/Gaelic/Welsh-type languages thrown in there too (hence the many different pronunciations of "g" and "gh"). The vast majority of other languages are just evolved versions of ancient tongues, or they're two mixed languages that were mixed so long ago that the product has developed a uniform character all its own. English grammar is so strange thanks to its attempts to accommodate the grammatical structures of all its source languages at once; the same can be said for its tense-shifting characteristics. The pronunciation and all the discrepancies between different words, dialects, and stages in the language's evolution are owed partly to the language's longtime status as a common/peasants' language and partly to the many different source languages.

For the record, as difficult as it is to learn English, it's just as hard for English speakers to learn any other language. We don't have much common ground with any one language, and unstressed languages are even more difficult. I'm learning Japanese right now, and it's really difficult for me to avoid stressing syllables.

Good luck to anyone trying to learn English! =D

How to understand English sentences?

Orange — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:51:49 GMT

Hi
Iâve been trying to learn English by listening and reading. But there are some sentences that I donât understand. For example, âThereâs not a girl in town who wouldnât love to be in your shoesâ and âThe goes the baker with his tray like alwaysâ( two sentences of the cartoon film âBeauty and the Beastâ). I know every word of these sentences but I donât understand them at all. I opened my English grammar books and searched for their structures, but I havenât found it yet.
Could you give me some advice?

Re: Poll: Difficulties learning English

Openmind — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:00:09 GMT

Kooyeen,

How did you learn your mother tongue? Why do native speakers know what 'sounds right' and what doesn't? Do you understand how the 'input/output' principle works? Why do you think you can learn a second language any differently than you learned your native language? Do you have any idea how often you heard a phrase in your mother tongue until you could speak it correctly? The initial question of this discussion was what problems ESL learners have. Most people who are trying to learn English make the same mistake: They try to invent their own phrases and complain that they don't know enough vocabulary or that they have difficulties with English grammar. The 'problem' of most ESL learners is that want to produce 'too much output' too soon.