Language teachers, could you tell us about some ways in which you are providing "learners with the tools to cope with 'real-life' communication ..."? Here in my country, they don't. And I heard it's so in most other

Unfortunately, I don't think I have the material you want, but it depends on what kind of English you are interested in. If you are interested in British English rather than in American English, you can find a lot of free stuff on the BBC

DC, As for Arnold, I am guessing that about him because he still has a relatively heavy accent but I have never have any trouble understanding anything he says. It seems unlikely to me that this is coincidence. There are two ways we could know for

require >>> working with a linguistic therapist in a language laboratory. Am I >>> write in thinking that even someone ... Where >>> would she look for this kind of tutoring? It doesn't seem to be >>>

I've heard (say, in some British songs) the following pronunciation: the vowel in "got" was pronounced in a sort of ... where a similar thing could happen, say "pot", "stop", etc. I mean I didn't notice it in

If all these Americans sound the same to all the other Americans, why would there be any work for dialect coaches? You don't know much about American accents. In fact, nothing. I know there is a standard accent that I teach to anyone who wants

... }> You don't know much about American accents. In fact, nothing. } } I know there is a standard accent that I teach to anyone who wants to } learn American pronunciation, and about 300 million people speak with } that accent. Do they

I've encountered very few Americans without one. One of the interesting things I've noticed when speaking French is that some people hear my accent only after I tell them I have an accent. Often a person can be pinpointed to a state or

Thanks for replying, I am according with you but, Then ... 'china' (/tS/)? A part of American people pronounce it so. The /tS/ pronunciation is the only correct one, but in connected speech sounds at the beginning or end of words ... heard

/eIdZ/ There's only one syllable; you must mean the final ... countless other English words: judge, edge, jail, June, major, etc. Thanks for replying, I am according with you but, Then is wrong to pronounce the final segment as the first sound