By Speak english, Pronunciation

BBC Learning English has made a radio programme which consists of 12 episodes. In each episode, they analyse the way some famous non-native (but proficient) speakers speak English.In one of the episodes, they focussed on Björk's English (I hope I got the spelling correct ) and discussed her...

Hihih, it's much easier than that, Barb! "h" isn't pronounced so, you should say something like "a-blo" - You pronounce blo as if it was "blue" but instead of "u", you should say "o". And "inglés"..the way it's writen.

1. Yes, the article "an" and the letter E, with the stress on the first syllable. 2. Just like the article "an" 3. I've never seen this name before. Ask the mother who dreamed it up. Diane, however, is a common name: die-AN. 4. That's Spanish. In my terrible Spanish...

Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...

i. Observe the mouth movements of those who speak English well and try to imitate them. When you are watching television, observe the mouth movements of the speakers. Repeat what they are saying, while imitating the intonation and rhythm of their speech. ii. Until you learn the correct...

Hello, I am an American .And I have found that the Amercan english has deteriorated. even Among professional telivision personalities. IE:News casters have even began to become rather loose in pronunciation. back in the day, newscasters spoke very eloquently. I was under the impression that...

Kooyeen wrote:Hi, SillyMe wrote:I just don't understand why you people are obsessed that much with your accents. Who is obsessed? Most learners are not obsessed. Actually, they usually don't care much about pronunciation and neglect spolen English. I am "obsessed" because I like English. I like...

I think Communicative approach has a relation with other methods. When I began to learn English, my teacher used to explain vocabulary and grammar from a text, then we mimick her to read it. Before teaching, she had an introduction which was very interesting. She had a good accent of a speaker of...

Learn commonly used phrases thoroughly -- phrases of three to six words. Practice the pronunciation over and over until the whole phrase becomes automatic. Without constant repetition you can't ever become fluent. If the phrase is long or difficult, learn the end of the phrase first. ...

Hello: How are you? I am exicited to learn english as a second language ,I am from libya and I am studying at ICT but there is no good chance here to speak english perfectly because many of people aren't intersted with it . Anyway , I am facing very big problem with speaking and make...