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BBC Learning English has made a radio programme which consists of 12 episodes. In each episode, they analyse the way some famous non-native (but proficient) speakers speak English.In one of the episodes, they focussed on Björk's English (I hope I got the spelling correct ) and discussed her...

Hblaw wrote: Hi all, My native language is Chinese and I am learning English as a foreign language. I am wondering if you could name a few mistakes that are commonly seen in Chinese people who speak/write English as a second language, so that I can be more conscious in avoiding them in the...

Teroff wrote:Hello. I think this is bad idea to learn English from musics and other. First of all you must learn a gramma and after that you may learn English from Music/song, but not gramma only vocabulary bank. But this is my IMHOSometimes I thought of it as you did. But I take me back in...

I have the same opinion as you and Benita. Listening to the English songs, seeing films, playing games and especially try to find any occasions to talk to some native English speaker (it's not easy...) are various forms of learning English. It is also an impetus to give us a basic of knowledge...

Hi again,sorry, I meant to say that you should avoid considering songs as a major means of learning English.You don't learn good pronunciation by listening to songs. Often words are mispronounced (because they are sung). So you'll often hear "crazy" pronounced "cray-zeh", reduced diphthongs so...

Regrettably, one of the ways in which British grammar and spelling has changed over the centuries is because mistakes in grammar or spelling have become so common, that they are accepted as a variant. I shudder to think that soon, CON-tribute will also be regarded as "acceptably"!!! As I see it,...

maybe it´s just my opinion, but i think it doesn´t matter which movie you watch. i mean, it´s right that in older movies the pronunciation is mostly clearer, but i´d say that most english guys nowadays don´t mind to talk really slow and clear. so i´d recommend to watch just a whole lot of...

Hello Old Man Gordon,thank you for communicate your impressions. I can follow your way teaching english.But unfortunately I don´t like old music like Beatles and so on. Watching old movies is a method I will try.Yesterday I switched through CAST AWAY with Tom Hanks and it worked. Clear...

I've used both audio and video in my classes. I prefer to use older movies, because the pronunciation tends to be clearer, although some of the expressions may be out of date. I sometimes use TV show episodes because they are shorter. Music can be difficult, and once again, I think older songs...