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Dear Sir / Madam I am a qualified and experienced English teacher and I have been teaching in Korea for the past two years. My command of the English language is superb, I speak with a clear accent and I am careful to pronounce and articulate with clarity when students are listening. It is with...

　This dictionary tells you about English words and how to use them in reading, writing and speaking English. It not only gives the meaning of words, it can also help you with spelling, word building, grammar and pronunciation. 　　To use your dictionary correctly, you need to understand how the...

After years of speaking English, it's not changed much. No matter how hard I try, I can't control my tongue. My English teacher in Korea once said it's nearly impossible to correct the accent once you become an adult, and I believe it now. Maybe I should give up and just stick with...

There are some differences in vocabulary and idiom across the British Isles, and you might encounter some regional words and expressions that you're not familiar with. But the core vocabulary and grammar are not hugely different, and you might find that a bigger problem is pronunciation. If...

Yeah, but I was only considering two "general varieties" with their transcriptions, the ones you find in dictionaries. If you start to consider all the varieties, you'll never stop. I just noticed a mistake......I meant to write that in BrE it's more like /aʊ/.There sure are...

because of my dialect, where all final N's are pronunced like English NG's.Hmm. You must be from the northwest section of Italy. Yes? Piedmont area? bang for bene? __________ Oh, I'd like to ask wong more thing. If people in fast speech say "wom more", is it because the N becomes very...

Hi there,What is known as "Received pronounciation" in the UK is seen as the "posh" way of speaking English. This is how the Queen speaks, and was the way all TV presenters had to speak a few decades ago.Nowadays, there is no standard accent for teaching children the UK, and there is no authority...

Anonymous wrote: SillyMe wrote:Hello,I just don't understand why you people are obsessed that much with your accents. For me there is only one thing seems important that is to be understood. I doesn't matter how you sound unless you are a stage performer. If we are foreigners we are supposed to...

SillyMe wrote:Hello,I just don't understand why you people are obsessed that much with your accents. For me there is only one thing seems important that is to be understood. I doesn't matter how you sound unless you are a stage performer. If we are foreigners we are supposed to speak with a...

Definitely NOT European! I tend to agree with another poster, I'll put you somewhere in Asia, though I'm not sure... The Far East sounds more possible, (Korea? Japan? China?) but there's an off-chance you're from an Arabic-speaking country, or Iran, though, to be honest, most Arabs have clearer...