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Re: looking for a good book for English conversation

Kooyeen — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:42:17 GMT

Hi,
I too have been looking for someting like that! I don't know how many books of this kind there are, but I guess there aren't really a lot, compared to the number grammar books available. Plus, I guess if a student is interested in American English, they'll probaly find less material.
"English vocabulary in use - Basic - Intermediate - Advanced" could be useful books (Cambridge University Press). I don't know exactly what's in those books, but they'll help you learn vocabulary and common expressions. I was only able to find the British English versions (but American English is also available), so I didn't read them...

Re: opposite of postpone

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:21:00 GMT

Indians and South Asians in general have a very widely used, "prepone" as an opposite of postpone. However, by the standards of current english vocabulary, thats a wrong word.

Though you never know, prepone sounds comprehensible it might become a legal word given the number of english speaking south asians in the world.

Re: Is it correct?

Forbes — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:35:57 GMT

Antonia!

I have read many of your posts with interest. Your knowledge of English vocabulary, at least in the higher register of English, is very impressive and probably exceeds that of the average native English speaker. If you were to walk along Oxford Street in London and show your texts to a random number of passers by I am sure many, if not most, of them (assuming they were not foreigners!) would have some difficulty in understanding them. I therefore feel I need to ask for whose benefit you prepare your texts. You would have difficulty finding the words "humanistic" and "normative" in even newspapers like The Guardian and The Times, at least on a regular basis. If we knew who your audience was I am sure we could help you more easily.