By Learning English, Dialects

Cool article Barb! Yeah right, Lana, LOL! A Chinese said so! Did you ever find an American who started learning Chinese after high school and said... "Oh, yeah, it's so simple!" Pretty much impossible! Seriously, my opinion is that English is already an international language and...

Mike Myers's parents are Scottish, and he lived in the UK for a long time. He was formerly a children's tv presenter in the UK. You will be able to find the name of Renee Zellweger's dialect coach by looking at the credits of one of her films. Gordon Brown does NOT, by any stretch of the...

No, I've never heard of a movie being dubbed into another dialect. That would seem rather ludicrous to me. (Ok, so I've always wanted to use the word ludicrous.) You have to remember that North Americans usually understand most dialects of British English just fine. RP and General American...

hi, our teacher asked us to write a paragraph about the reasons why i wanted to learn english.i will be glad if somebody helps me to correct it and to omit my mitakes(including punctuation). here is my paragraph: Because of many reasons caused the actual world's conditions i took the decision...

Milky wrote: Inchoateknowledge wrote: Hi Do you mean if I study various varieties of Englishes? Yes, I meant that. I do not study any dialects, only the standard language. This is "the common denominator". What does "common denominator" mean in this context? Which standard variant are you...

Hi Inchoateknowledge, Thanks for an intriguing post! The one I often hear being referred to as BBC English. I have spoken about it with some people who have been raised in an English-speaking country: South-Africa, USA, England, Scotland, Philippines, from the four corners of the world; and...

<Do Ivy-league graduates, professors speak different dialects irrespective of where they were raised? Do graduates who came down from Oxford and speak with a plum in their mouth speak a different dialect from that their Ivy-league counterparts do?> Do you wish only to speak with such...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Hi Do you mean if I study various varieties of Englishes? Yes, I meant that. I do not study any dialects, only the standard language. This is "the common denominator". What does "common denominator" mean in this context? Which standard variant are you studying?

Hi The one I often hear being referred to as BBC English. I have spoken about it with some people who have been raised in an English-speaking country: South-Africa, USA, England, Scotland, Philippines, from the four corners of the world; and they were all of the opinion that what we hear on BBC...

Hi The one I often hear being referred to as BBC English. I have spoken about it with some people who have been raised in an English-speaking country: South-Africa, USA, England, Scotland, Philippines, from the four corners of the world; and they were all of the opinion that what we hear on BBC...