KK (Kenyon & Knott) is a phonetic system popular in Taiwan (and, I think, nowhere else) for representing the sounds of American English. It's very close to the IPA, anyway. Phonics is a theory & practice for teaching children

Cai Jingshu, 14, loves English. She reads English newspapers every week and often tries to talk with foreigners from other countries. “Many of us want to study abroad and find out more about English language culture,” said the girl. However,

REZA MODIRROUSTA wrote on 25 Apr 2005: Wherever human exists, language exists and there are no "primitive" languages, because ALL LANGUAGES ARE EQUALLY COMPLEX AND EQUALLY CAPABLE ... No language is better! Is an English speaker better

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: I would like better ears. Funnily enough, I reckon most ... Italian, for instance, have troubles saying Italian Rs and Es. And the GL soft sound as well, as in "gli", "gliene", etc. I've

Great! Am I right to believe that people from Asia ... Chinese or Japanese or Mongolian I would be completely lost! Actually, I believe both Chinese and Japanese (I don't know about Mongolian) are much easier languages than English. Especially

Great! Am I right to believe that people from Asia have to make an effort bigger than Europeans to learn ... In that, I admire Asians. If I were to study Chinese or Japanese or Mongolian I would be completely lost! Actually, I believe both Chinese

##1 and 2 are true. Current world dominance of the ... from Japan (because of its phonetic ideographs) than from China. Japanese has no phonetic ideograms, only two phonetic syllabaries, hiragana and katakana. The former is used to phonetically

Ezra Pound announced nearly a century ago the importance of the difference between ideographic languages and alphabetic languages. If anything new emerges here I suggest it may come sooner from Japan (because of its phonetic ideographs) than from

According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal? What are they? The article in question, at http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/6600.html