By Learning English, Intonations

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Hi Anon,what Jim said makes a lot of sense, and we discussed it a little in another thread, I think.The point was that teaching completely descriptively is impossible. The teacher would have to say: Mr X says this, Mr Y says that, and Mr Z says another thing. Now learn what they say and then...

Hi KooyeenIf you wanted to sound like a German who is learning English and still making mistakes, you could say:"MrPedantic is from Venice, or?" That would be an overly direct translation of German, and not typical English..I'm sure you already know that direct translations often don't work or...

' American accent trainning' is quite pratical and I've been working on it on and off for almost 6 months. It help me some but not too much I think. U will never pick up the american accent unless u live there for 5 years at least. I am Chinese but I speak either British or American accent ...

Friendshipz wrote:hi all, i am from singapore, currently studying in polytechnic, in other terms if i am not wrong, it is called a college. i came from a chinese speaking family,where i speak chinese all the time at home which makes this one of the main reason why i am not fluent in english,...

The big mistake many people make when learning English is to associate the written words with the spoken ones. They technically are two different worlds. Since you have a computer, I would suggest you install iTunes (it's free) and subscribe to several podcasts. You will be able to listen to...

Sorry, my mistake. I misunderstood the intonation of your statement completely. I thought you meant that bilinguilism would only be good for a developing brain, and would produce no effects on a developed brain. Clearly you did not mean that at all. My observations of my daughter lead me to...