My 12 year old son, a native English speaker, goes to school in Spain where we have lived since he was four. He has just come back from school with a 9 out of 10 in an English exam. He was marked down on the oral exam for pronouncing ¨girls´¨

Hi, I am completing the last module (module 9) of i-to-i's 40 hour TESOL course - creating a mock lesson plan for asking for, giving and understanding directions. My tutor has told me I need to make adjustments to the staging of my

Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening! It is suddenly getting much colder in Korea. Especially, the flu is so rampant. Take care of your health. I'd like to ask you what a social linguistic failure is. From the book i

That doesn't mean you have to post 18 times. You shuda combined them into a single post. Since we're preaching up proper English here, please, don't post "kind-of-chat" language here. I don't belong to the set

r after any vowel has a special place in english. oor usually end up as ʊɚ, ɔɚ, oʊɚ poor: pʊɚ moore: mʊ ɚ , mɔ ɚ , moʊ ɚ floor: fl ɔ ɚ , floʊ ɚ door: d ɔ ɚ d oʊ ɚ oo before any but r: boom: bum doom: dum hood: h ʊd good: gʊd wood:

I wrote the anonymous reply before signing up. It is correct, I have my Bachelor of Education. This is how it is taught in our school system. Please click on the link that I posted - it states clearly about using "and" as a

Hi, let me help you, I am Canadian. First of all, there is the correct way to say numbers, and the everyday/slang way. The proper way is " and" means a decimal. You NEVER use "and" unless denoting a decimal. How about

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

I'm sorry, but I cannot think of any word to define the mistake with 'alloweded'-- it is just a slip of the tongue, it seems to me. No exercise is needed; just explain to the student what has happened (the student has duplicated the -ed ending in

I just think its very likely that your explanation – though a very extensive and elaborate one – is still quite a few steps beyond them. You're probably right, but maybe others will benefit from that explanation. Students often browse through