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Hi K.,I spent a whole year in the UK, doing a postgraduate course. To make things worse, I chose to go to Wales because Cardiff Uni is at the cutting edge in my field. Have you ever heard somebody speaking with a Welsh accent? For the first two months there, I only wanted to cry... In spite of my...

English people DO have trouble with Greek accents. One interesting problem is the difference in intonation. In Greek, a sentence will always end with the voice rising in tone if it is a question. In English this is not always so. In fact if you speak English like this it might give the impression...

I wonder what they would have said if they had studied English in the States! Learning Spanish is a completely different matter. Phonetically speaking, Spanish is quite an easy language to learn as it is written in almost the same way as it is pronounced. However, you would definitely have...