By Genders, Learn English

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones, easy grammar). Now I'll start off by saying that...

Lcchang wrote: Hi, Goodman Your explanantion is more than enough for me. Thank you so much. By the way, I don't speak Cantonese but I know you do, right? I have seen one of your messages here before that tells us how you had managed to learn English well when you started your life in the U.S....

Whilst agreeing that this topic wandered off into areas not strictly relevant to this forum, I think the following points have come out of it that are relevant to all languages: 1. Writing and speech are different but related phenonema. 2. The form in which a language is written may affect the...

Hi, Khoff and all you native English speakers! I've always been sympathetic with English/American people trying to study my native language, Bulgarian. We are lucky, because it is easier for us to learn English. It doesn't sound strange that inanimate nouns do not have gender in English - it just...