AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

I've always been curious about the difference in pronounciation of this word in UK and US English. In US English the word is pronounced as it is written (ljuutenent), while in UK English people say 'leftenent'. Does anyone know where

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: If you can't hear the pronunciation, then you need better ears, not a teacher. I would like better ears. Funnily enough, I reckon most people need them. I noticed most English people trying to learn Italian, for

Hi friends, In this link: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html you will see there are 15 vowels in American English. In this link: http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA/SSAE.html you will see there are 12 vowels in Standard American

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' ... of an o - I like to call it a smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in

In the recent discussion of the verb "use", meaning "to be accustomed", its use in the infinitive and the simple past tense were mentioned, but I don't recall that anyone mentioned its use in the past perfect tense. An

I must have missed the previous hashing. I accept that there is no relationship between Hero and Gyro. However, I ... cooked on a rotating spit got its name later than the US "Hero"? Or that the food was introduced later? I think