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

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,

I'm trying to teach someone(of Chinese origin) how to pronounce "L" but they can only say "R" instead. Any tips/help/ideas on how to help them pronounce the letter correctly? Thanks in advance...

hi Ben, Polish phonology is rather adventurous, that's right. But it does not make English any simplier. It is just that with some languages you have to be able to produce special sounds and train your hearing to understand them (e.g. Polish,

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

Hi, I'm a Chinese. It's both hard and easy for Chinses to learn English. Millions of Chinese students spent about 13 years to learn English. But I think the grammar of English is regular and simple. The really hard to Chinese is the large

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