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CalifJim wrote: I read somewhere that Mario Pei, the linguist, tried to learn a different language every year. He supposedly claimed that Vietnamese was the most difficult. CJ I disagree with the linguist Mario Pei not because I am a Vietnamese. It is because I have...

There are an infinite number of shadings between what you call a true "ch" and a distorted "sh" that sounds like "ch", so I think it's counterproductive to go down this path. Each utterance of these combinations is slightly different depending on the temporal spacing of the components t and...

Hi there MrP and Sextus, Well, honestly telling you I've not been this kind of big stuff yet because it demands some patience , determinations and time. But anyone can do it if one can find the person who has mastered the things. And the most authentic person in the world was Dr. Narayan...

For upper intermediate businessmen I use almost exclusively found news articles from the newspaper or magazine. If you let him choose the article from his newspaper or magazine, it ensures that outside of class, he (1) buys and reads or at least browses through one English language periodical...

Hello Reme, I think that the best way to find out your students' level is by means of a quiz. According to the results you can have an idea of how much they know and what they are bad at. A little conversation afterwards is not a bad idea either. I usually make them write questions to ask about...