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 thought this was a fun and interesting find: a poem written by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité called "The Chaos", which demonstrates many of the peculiarities of English spelling. Apparently, if you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you

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,

When I visited Jowon middle-school as a Korean Interpretation Volunteer of Suwon Youth Center, there was a student there who had have lived in USA for 5 years. Needless to say, her pronunciation was much better than either mine or and her English

Hello lovely teachers~ I'm writing an essay on a specific book and here is a paragraph. Any grammatical correction is welcomed^^ Thanks in advance! In Korea, just because I'm not a native speaker, it seems a matter of

Two years too late, the correct way to use the idiom is "all of a sudden." American and British use of quotations is also different. Americans are taught for the most part that a period (full-stop) is used inside the quote, unless used

Hi Kooyeen, Do you mean *** in Spanish is pronounced as POO-tuh? Just like you said, you would probably make it different on purpose, I am wondering if it is the reason why the British pronunciation mentioned by Martin, would probably be "lap

Unfortunately students who take IELTS exhibit the same poor speech skills, and that already includes a speaking test (for which I'm an examiner). I gather that pronunciation is one of the criteria for marking and assessment...

The English classes in East Asia traditionally have placed very little emphasis on listening and speaking skills. One consequence of this has been that these students take the TOEFL test and get a good score. Then they go to an American university

At 19:22:12 on Fri, 4 Mar 2005, HB (Email Removed) wrote in : Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone name a few English dialects? We always learned (translator school in Flanders) that English had many accents, not dialects, the only dialect we ever