So to recap, four digit numbers with two significant digits are usually read by first reading the first two digits and adding hundred, but this is a bit informal? I didn't really get a clear picture of whether in the same kind of informal

I like www.m-w.com too - I like that it gives pronunciation as well.

I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

I don't use that website either because it seems to pronounce words with an annoying posh accent, and there are no phonetic transcriptions. I just need the transcription because I already have my way of pronouncing each phoneme, so I usually

Get an electronic pronouncing dictionary and practise your pronunciation every day for 10-20 minutes, without exceptions. Use books with English idioms, and practise with your computer/laptop and a piece of paper. Pick out a word. Try to predict

Hi, I am doing the TEFL I TO I course online and I am stuck on Module 3 exersise 4 could you help me?

As software for English study, I recommend the text-to-speech software panopreter, it's a freeware, when you run it on Windows vista PC, it will read any English words with Microsoft Anna voice, then you can following Anna's standard

Hello, Judging from your post, I assume you are looking for easy and not too fast audioclips. These are my suggestions: VOA news : you can read a piece of news and listen to a slow recording. BBC learning English : plenty of stuff there! Just

Hello, I have a question. I have been studying English for some years now, and, at this moment, I have reached the point that, in my pronunciation of English idioms, I sound very near native, which is a good thing, obviously. However, over the

I won't argue with you, of course you're right, you're a native Italian! You can argue! After all, Italian has many variants and I can speak only for mine. After doing some search on the internet, I've found this dictionary where