I speak English, Swedish and Finnish. The last one is the most difficult for me without any doubt. But it depends on what makes the language in question difficult to different people. For me, Finnish is tough because of its vocabulary that doesn´t

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote: I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I

To continue..... I think the sound quality is an important difference between the two languages besides the pronunciation. The Americans tend to drone in the middle tone, wheras the English have a more lilting quality and the Welsh more so; but

Hi cball007, I found my notes which I jotted down in my ESL course. The difference between a and an is one of pronunciation, and so we also use an in front of a silent h because judging only by sound, the word begins with the vowel that

At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my name, you

Anachronism, pronunciationwise. For obvious reasons, I've never heard an ancient Roman speaking Latin. Ican only imagine how the Latin should sound, i.e. ... sounds different from French - Latin, or American-Latin, or Russian-Latin. The same

Whilst agreeing with all the above, "Ms" has a pronunciation ... quite angry when addressed, by voice or letter, as "Ms". Are those women, by any chance, over the age of, oh, 75? I'm trying hard to think of anyone I ...