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

Hello everybody. I'm pretty good at English let's say, the writing, the pronunciation, the reading, the listening aren't big problem to me. Okay, the listening and speaking, I do it but with efforts. The speaking it's the hardest

A good example is a multi-syllable word where the American English pronunciation has a different stress pattern than British English. If you click on the sound icons, you will hear the differences. LINK Mr M is correct that primary / secondary

And how about hafta, gotta, gonna, wanna, shoulda... even on the news - Peter Jennings started using them on the evening news! If I fully enunciated "have to" "going to", "want to" and other common reductions in a

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

Hey Renan, I can just tell you that some Americans DO use the simple past with already, yet, ever/never. I clearly remember a post in the pronunciation section where there was a video from the TV series Lost, and a guy asked a girl "Did you

. Not really true, Lisa. Although many speakers in all English-speaking countries (most notoriously GW Bush) reduce the pronunciation of many words, the only correct name of the letter remains 'double u'. .

Two years too late, the correct way to use the idiom is "all of a sudden." American and British use of quotations is also different. Americans are taught for the most part that a period (full-stop) is used inside the quote, unless used

Hi Kooyeen I have never concentrated on learning any particular variety of English because it has always been my objective to acquire as good a command of the languagae as possible. Limiting my efforts to just one variety would constitute a

You are also right on me not being a native speaker. If I may ask, how did you find out? I cheated. I didn't hear it, I read it. Anyway, as I said, if I hadn't known that, I would not have thought you were a non-native speaker of English,