Hi Sachin, I know what you mean about not understanding people at a high speed. It happens in every language, and can be frustrating. The best thing to do (as you probably already know) is to work on your listening skills (lots of practice) and

I am looking for the right pronunciation of fractions in British English. Every style guide I find is very clear ... stop. How do you pronounce fractions like "4000 / 563" in English? Is it "Four thousand five hundred sixty

They told me in my pronunciation there is no difference between 'shouder' and 'shoulder'. I have just been pronouncing the two words to try to understand what the problem might be. What I observe is that the tongue doesn't move

(What a difficult thread to snip, and maintain a hint of courtesy or coherence!) People like our own Professor Lawler throw huge clouds of ... that happens to no longer be used in some tenses. Because, of course, it isn't. The positive and

used (common error, but still an error) Yes, it is an error, but unfortunately it's not as widely recognized to be an error as it should be. ... the "use" in "use to" is a normal English verb that happens to no longer be

Such is the characteristic of the language. In Chinese, every ... and just slip from word to word, wich sounds funny. Which suggests a technique I have mentioned previously in this newsgroup, and which several people seemed to think was a ... can

Hi, Being a non native speaker, I'd like to know how native English read to learn, in particular how to deal with English spelling (also, how do they learn to write) If you're interested in the whole sorry history of educational fads

OK, but why do you have this impression? Is it because your mental image of Britain is removed from reality? This may be a reason, but I think Elisabetta pointed out another reason. In English, you use pharses like 'Thank you',

"Brian Wickham" wrote in message Well, but I thought ... I do in "which", and "what". Let me add: "white". I stand corrected. I was not really aware that anyone pronounced the 'h' in 'which',

Jacques Guy (Email Removed) wrote on 28 Dec 2003: Geoff helpfully quoted CyberCypher who had written: wrote on 27 Dec All the more so that the Chinese original very likely must have had the character yin ("sound") in whatever whoever