I struggle with giving each of my characters a unique voice and while I realize there are books and articles covering this, I don't feel like my characters have a great voice. Can anyone offer any tips or insights? It's very easy to become

I agree with raindoctor. You can't learn like babies do, and some kind of natural acquisition is only possible when your English is already good enough for you to understand the context. ESL students in school are artificially picking up the

. They also claim that our fascination with native speakers' accents and desire to sound like a native speaker is rather a matter of constraint than a conscious choice Well, wanting to imitate native speakers is something that comes naturally

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

I know that adjectives in English comes before nouns in the majority of cases. But I get doubtful sometimes. Can anybody tell me how to proceed and why? Thx! director of photography or photography director? sun gate or gate of the sun?

I noticed that this question is tagged as unanswered. Received pronunciation is so named because it was 'received by', i.e. taught to public school pupils and RADA pupils. ( RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ). You can hear example in

Nobody in Britain speaks like the Queen, apart from a few of the idle rich. I wouldn't say RP or how they speak on the BBC is the same as how the Queen speaks. Upper class English has its own accent. Even the younger royals are trying to break

I just love american accent.. always spoke US English.. is it easier to understand than British accent?.. well.. i think here's how everyone got used.. i have a friend who speaks British Eng, and even she was in US and lived there for a while, she

I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

These are the ones you'd pay good money for to watch them read the phone book out loud. John Cleese Mae West (dead, but still) Bruce Willis Johnny Carson You? As a monsters guy from way back, I find that a lot of the old horror stars come to