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

Hello everybody. I'm pretty good at English let's say, the writing, the pronunciation, the reading, the listening aren't big problem to me. Okay, the listening and speaking, I do it but with efforts. The speaking it's the hardest

A good example is a multi-syllable word where the American English pronunciation has a different stress pattern than British English. If you click on the sound icons, you will hear the differences. LINK Mr M is correct that primary / secondary

Ttate: Welcome to the forums. This is a very interesting subject! Languages do have a formal grammar, but also there are many times when the rules are broken by native speakers in actual practice. Sometimes "formal speech," although

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

And talking of Otorhinolaryngology... some patients at my work do the 'nuclear' > "nucular" thing with 'cochlea' and pronounce it "cockular". I make a point of trying to get the correct pronunciation into the

Hi there, Here's a sentence from a book " The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics" In speech, three processes, at the very least, are taking (1) place simultaneously: first, sounds are actually being (2) uttered;

I'm going to pass on the "should" question. My instinct tells me it could be ambiguous, because "should" has several uses. If you use "should" in the sense of "ought to," then it would be redundant.

Hi, I read a comment some time ago by someone who said, roughly speaking, 'Anyone who uses a lot of dashes is saying that he can't be bothered to use the correct pronunciation or sentence structure, so he is just going to leave the reader

Can you just correct some simple sentences for me. I wonder if them are right or not. 1. I believe that this trait of mine would help me to be a good teacher. 2. A translator whom I look up to said a language learner who consistently