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. I would consider this exercise damagingly prescriptive; most are neither uniquely Filipino nor wrong. However (and my comments refer to AmE/BrE): 1. Free subscription of... (Free subscription to…) - prepo issue-- AmE/BrE uses the collocation subscribe to. 2. Can I speak with…? (May I speak...

Has anyone heard about Filipinisms/Filipinoism? Hi guys. In the call center industry, it refers to terms/phrases used by Filipinos in speaking and in writing (sometimes). They gave me a list with corrections and assigned me to send one Filipinism with corrections weekly. However, in my...

Hi guys, I'm new at these boards (I don't even have an account!) and I just want to ask all of you a question. It's an open-ended question with lots of details, so please bear with me because this is going to be pretty long. I'll start by saying that English is not my native language. I've had...

Hi Kooyeen There is nothing to forgive! I am certainly not in the least offended by your post. In fact, I enjoyed reading it tremendously! I even agree with you to some extent on some of the points you made. I am the first person to admit that my knowledge of English isn't as good as that of a...

Hi there, I am a non-native English learner. I often visit Randall's ESL Listening Cyber Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ to practise listening and speaking skills. I find this website very useful in learning to new American English expressions. Can you suggest any similar websites but in British...

For all of those trying to acquire a cockney accent (why for goodness sake??!! Oh never mind) PLEASE PLEASE don't go overboard on the slang side. The odd slang word gets mixed in but no-one walks around absolutely packing their speech out with these words, honestly. Some are used a lot, some are...

1. For wife-to-be/husband-to-be we typically use "fiance(e)." The version with a single "e" is for a male and the version with two is for a female. Note that there's an accent over the first "e" which I can't post because the forum doesn't allow the use of copy/paste (English keyboards don't have...

Someone earlier said that it was "impossible to get a british accent when you're american". Well personally, I'm Canadian and I've got quite a harsh british accent. Everytime I talk to someone new they ask me where I'm from in Britain. I do have a huge brit fetish and I've spent quite alot of...