1. Have you ever thought about retaining some aspects of your first language Generally speaking, no, because English is a separate language. Of course it's easy to make mistakes because of the influence of my native language, but as I said, I

Hi, In short: 1) Learn the basic grammar and learn how to build your sentences. Get a grammar book. 2) Learn the basic vocabulary to express yourself. 3) Try to avoid mistakes, that is, use the simple English you are comfortable with. 4) Use

hi folks, I'm a freshman student at teachers' college and want to improve my English as much as I can. here, i wrote something for you to read in order to check my writing, grammatical or spelling mistakes. I should be handing this to

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/than.html "When comparing one thing with another you may find that one is more appealing "than" another. "Than" is the word you want

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 productive skills (writing and speaking) in general lag behind the passive skills (reading and writing) in normal second language ... bit of French, but writing with the kind of ease you display in English in either language is beyond me. I

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Should have been ... absurd, you know please limit your posts to alt.absurd.replies. What do you find so absurd in my reply? That you compare using a talking dictionary or the phonetic

?? Every description I've ever read of French pronunciation for English speakers has made a point of the fact that French /t/, /d/ and /n/ are dental, unlike their alveolar English counterparts. These consonants are more advanced, but the

I can half understand why we don't say Paree, but why shouldn't English speaking people be able to sort out ... ard' instead of 'Mare lind' (Ok, I can't do Fontanian symbols) and the 'normal' pronunciation of the

Do you think that these pressures have (nearly) vanished from ... avoid certain phrases, or seen it happen to their children. Sure, but specifically wrt British stuff? I can only remember Britishisms, British accents, British culture, etc. being