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.pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect?Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A nounWould you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation.I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because I don't think it's in anyone's active...

Hi Clive,Surprisingly, my foreign students think Vietnamese is rather easy to learn. In Vietnam, especially in the northern part of the country, one might find many foreigners speaking Vietnamese better than natives. For example, one of the best TV hosts in Vietnam is a Canadian, Joe Rueller, who...

Hi David,2 x 3 = 6 movies in 2 days! LOL, that's a lot!Anyway... David Little wrote:My problem is i could"nt understand the dialogues properly without the sub-title turned on....hmm, ok, let's try this. Try to answer this question.When you don't understand, you turn the subtitles on. After you...

OK, for thr record: I have been learning Russian, German, Polish (some months), English, Chinese (some months), Japanese, Czech (some weeks), Italian (just for fun with my husband), French and Macedonian. I am fluent in German, English and Russian and passiv in French and Macedonian. I would like...

Just wondering what do you consider as the hardest word/expression to pronounce. I am particularly having problems with the following: 'Sheet/***' I always mess up these two and end up making joke of myself. Sometime I meant to say 'a sheet of paper', but to my friends it was like '*** of...

Dear madam / sir, Being possessor of an exploitation right concerning an innovating technology of communication described below, I solicit your attention in order to know if any utilization would eventually interest you. Kind regards, (letters into brackets are readable with a phonetic...

Tallulah Tam wrote:I feel that Alan Jay Lerner was not so concerned about his own grammar when he wrote the song, he insults the intelligence of the audience by using the word "hung" incorrectly, especially when putting the words into the mouth of Professor Higgins who as I said, should, and...

How To Learn English ? PART 2 Learning a language is mainly based upon self-struggle. Maybe the only thing to be done by the teachers on this subject is to advise a method. Because, in a sense, language cannot be taught but learned. So, it’s suitable that the students are shown ways to...

Hello Lusia, You do not state your native language. It would be helpful to know which country you are from. As you can see I am British living in America so I will try to answer your questions, I will be corrected if I am wrong, (I hope) Generally it is fairly easy to guess a person's...

That's too close to the truth Woody. Sometimes I hear a slightly Aussie accent reflected in the speech of my students, especially the strong Aussie AY sound ... pay may, day etc. I don't worry too much about this though because it is usually a sound that most Japanese have difficulty making. I...