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Hi ThereJust wanted to let people know of a FREE TO USE website which may help people learning the English Language.The website is www.ipicthat.com, it is the world's first online talking picture dictionary. The site basically comprises of a ‘dictionary’ of approximately 5,500 words in an A-Z...

Hello. I'm a student from Korea (South) trying to learn English based on received pronunciation. And it's kind of hard because everyone here tries to learn American English.Here goes the questions:1. I reckon Americans often use 'flapped d', but it seems that British people...

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...

Hi Monlisautan, I remember “Longman” from way, way back in elementary school in my motherland. For beginners, Longman was all people know before it had the name “Oxford” attached to it. Today, the first few pages of lessons still ring in my head. It read like this: A manA panA man and a...

Quangtrungvtv wrote:if i have 12 hours a day to study englishGood, that's the only real way to learn English. Using it a lot (= most of the time).Tips:0) You should decide what variety you want to focus on (usually either British or American English), because there are some...

Hi Kooyeen, If you want a particular accent, you should listen to that accent all day long, and avoid to listen too much to other accents. If you want to do this at your home, it's practically impossible! It's difficult, yes, but it's not impossible. Many people fail to realise that in order to...

I am a native English speaker from the U.S. and I agree with Colombo (by the way, your writing in English is great), but it seems every person I have met who speaks English as a foreign language runs into pronunciation as the largest problem. Although the language obviously seems easy to me, we...

I'm Egyptian and very interested in English I'm only 16 years and aim to speak English better than Americans. A very praiseworthy aim! However, you should remember that all native speakers of English speak it perfectly and you cannot improve on perfection. I expect you mean that you are looking...

Dear, I'm Egyptian and very interested in English I'm only 16 years and aim to speak English better than Americans. I asked a lot of English teachers, native speaker and other famous persons who speak English about the best way to learn English and this is some advices to be good in...

I got into a discussion with my friend from California about this. He asked four native speakers at work (in California) and they said this was more correct: Xyz is the wrong approach to learn English. My other friend and I thought this was better: XYZ is the wrong approach to ***learning...