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

Hi Ellisa, I'm not sure I agree with your use of the word "fluent" here, which seems to imply only the accent/pronuciation. There are native speakers who don't speak fluently, even though their pronunication is fine,

I hate to be the spanner in the works here, but this subject is near and dear to my heart. As most of you know, I am an American working in Greece. The majority of Greeks in Greece insist on the innate superiority of British English to American

If a word has one or two syllables it's usually spelled with "s" in both I've never heard any such rule. The only one I know is "did it originally, or through derivation via Latin ... in -izein". You are the first

Hi All, So many students in my groups have an American pronunciation of lots of words, like basket = (baeskit). ... this American pronunciation? - correct it? - or: point out that the British pronounce a word differently + tell how? The only time

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: One can always record one's own speech and compare it with a native speaker's rendition. On the contrary, I think one can improve a lot if others listen to him/her attentively and make him/her notice ...

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Should have been "provides either". That could be said for virtually anything: you can find the meaning of words on dictionaries and grammar rules on grammar books. If you want to be absurd and you are

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Anyone with a dictionary that either providesShould have been "provides ... to acquire the correct pronunciation without needing a teacher's help. That could be said for virtually anything: you can find the

Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning