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Hi David, 2 x 3 = 6 movies in 2 days! LOL, that's a lot! Anyway... David Little wrote: My problem is i could"nt understand the dialogues properly without the sub-title turned on. ...hmm, ok, let's try this. Try to answer this question. When you don't understand, you turn the subtitles on. After...

Just wondering what do you consider as the hardest word/expression to pronounce. I am particularly having problems with the following: 'Sheet/***' I always mess up these two and end up making joke of myself. Sometime I meant to say 'a sheet of paper', but to my friends it was like '*** of...

Dear madam / sir, Being possessor of an exploitation right concerning an innovating technology of communication described below, I solicit your attention in order to know if any utilization would eventually interest you. Kind regards, (letters into brackets are readable with a...

Nona The Brit wrote: And teacher Brian...what do people in Scotland, Wales and Ireland speak? That is exactly the point I am making! By simply using the expression 'native speaker of English' the jod advert was not clear. One of my students had been speaking Chinese-English for many...

If you want to talk like a native speaker then you have a long way to go. You can't skip over the steps. I suggest you master the basics first, before moving on to idioms and expressions. They're forums over here that can help you starting off( Vocabulary and Idioms , General English garmmar...

Thank you for your comments and given expressions. Please, help me with my additional questions. 1. How 'stings my ears' would be understood? 2. can we say 'His heavy accent is painful to my ears' or is it only used when we hear something that is very loud ? 3.I think we cannot say...

Well you guys are raising a very good point there, I can tell that having an accent does attrack people because they find you more interesting than, well accent-free persons. Yet there are two sides to this. On the one hand people find you "interesting" but on the other hand people tend to not...

Hi iverness, the site you linked to deals actually with foreign-language-accents. What I was talking about is rather special dialects, regional variants of a language within the language. Standard German is more or less a constructed language which is based on some middle-east German...

They do speak German, yes - I was just referring to his nationality and I hope you don't see him as a philosopher. He might have impressed people while he was holding speeches, but: His speeches were simply built and structured, the reason why they were such engrossing was because he held them...