Alex: Here's a bit more explaination on Mr. M's valour Your speaking German is cute. Speaking is a gerund, and the subject (singular) in the sentence. Your can be interpreted as either the subject of the gerund, or the possessive

Hi Judith, welcome to the Forums. We can help you with your grammar and writing in the forums. If you do not write correctly, you will not speak correctly either. If you write dialogs, such as an interview with an interviewer, we can help you to

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

I would agree that Slavonic languages are not easy. I am Czech and sometimes I think that punctuation in Czech is just rediculously complicated. Not many Czech people can right correctly!!! Grammar is equally tough even for natives. Speaking it is

I way always told English is either correct or incorrect, it can't be good or bad, well or ill. You were told wrong. English has a large number of gramatically and syntactically correct ways of expressing any given idea. Some ways are better

Anyway, fining fees as punishment when caught not speaking English, received by the class treasurer for the class fund, is not always used by all teachers. Sometimes those who were caught not speaking english were either given more cleaning chores

"'Plosive' is a relative term" means that there's no reason ... one time to another over a continuous range of values. It can't do that because if consonants were that loosely defined they'd be indistinguishable. It

david56 premed: Robert Lieblich typed thus: I only saw the subject line after I'd got through the first paragraph. I read the whole thing while trying to procrastinate over a less interesting task. It starts out sounding like something from

But the whole point is that this is not an "English" name, It's the name of an English-speaking person, used by that person of himself when speaking English; what more do you want? Names of non-English origin are treated in various

} 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