This sounds like a simple question. But the answers are much more involved. Coming from an Asian background, learning to speak and use the language remotely sounding like a native took many years of relentless practicing and studying. I think

I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

My guess is that one of the following is true. 1) He's not from the U.S., but he learned English very, very early in life. 2) He's from the U.S., but has picked up a tiny bit of the accent of his immigrant parents. 3) He's from the

Does this have something to do with the pronunciation of English? I've never heard of the concept. It sounds to me more like something to do with one of the Asian languages that are tonal.

Cai Jingshu, 14, loves English. She reads English newspapers every week and often tries to talk with foreigners from other countries. “Many of us want to study abroad and find out more about English language culture,” said the girl. However,

. I suppose that you know there are texts available for this sort of work. Here in Japan, I use English Pronunciation Exercises for Japanese Students , by Harriette Grate. You can also have fun making up dialogues containing the clusters under

hi Ben, Polish phonology is rather adventurous, that's right. But it does not make English any simplier. It is just that with some languages you have to be able to produce special sounds and train your hearing to understand them (e.g. Polish,

When I visited Jowon middle-school as a Korean Interpretation Volunteer of Suwon Youth Center, there was a student there who had have lived in USA for 5 years. Needless to say, her pronunciation was much better than either mine or and her English

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,

Highlighted a few glaring issues for you to fix. In Korea, just because I'm not a native speaker, it seems a matter of course (I mean, it seems fair! ) getting lower salary than a native speaker. I somewhat believe that natives are far