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

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

1. Have you ever thought about retaining some aspects of your first language Generally speaking, no, because English is a separate language. Of course it's easy to make mistakes because of the influence of my native language, but as I said, I

Wow...interesting thread you all have going... as a Southern African American (reared in Mississippi, no less), I must say that I pronounce sword as sord (without the w), the way that I was taught to pronounce it in school. I don't think the

If you look in a dictionary: the 1 play_w2("T0146800") ( before a vowel; before a consonant ) Or, "thee" before a vowel and "thuh" before a consonant. It's not a rule we learn in school, but it's

what about an university? or is it a university? Pronunciation: a yoo-niversity

Has the whole world gone mad? Students are being asked to read the 'Da Vinci Code' and write reports on it? Every year, I give several lectures at my local university on such subjects as the influence of the Knights Templar on