By Universities, Accents

Hmm, can I answer even though I am not a native speaker? I would say "thee eagle" because I learned to pronounce it "thee" before vowel sounds. Words like "university" and "wall" don't really start with a vowel sound, but with "semivowels", I...

First of all, you need some grammar too, because I noticed typical Asian mistakes, or non native constructions anyway.Here's the best tips I can give you:1 - Get a grammar book, and read it, learning the most common structures. "English grammar in use" by Cambridge University Press...

Good Morning sir, I am kavitha from chennai.i finished m.com graduation in Chennai university(corresponding course). Now i am working in small company as a java programer. i c't able to speak English in fluvantly. so i missed my best opportunities. i would like to improve my...

How is the generic Canadian(like from Vancouver, Toronto..) accent different from the generic US accent?I think the way Hayden Christensen speaks is very rythmic, could anyone comment on his accent so that I could try and learn that?Does it bug you that some people keep saying "like" in every...

Hi K.,I spent a whole year in the UK, doing a postgraduate course. To make things worse, I chose to go to Wales because Cardiff Uni is at the cutting edge in my field. Have you ever heard somebody speaking with a Welsh accent? For the first two months there, I only wanted to cry... In spite of my...

I know of a case where a woman from Columbia studied at a university in Georgia. At the end of her years in the U.S. she went back to her native country, and, to the dismay of her relatives, she spoke English with a Southern accent, unlike any of her siblings who had been educated at northern...

Hey CBIt was a rhetorical question. Read Post :399013 for example.The example I use in Post :427999 is actually a French structure (my mother tongue) that I am trying, with little success considering my effort, to learn. This means the English structure connects far better for me than the French...

According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what he says about it at:...

Hi,my English is not good at all, really, but I'm improving. If you want to know how I improved and how I'm improving, then... let's just say I used to read some stuff in Practical English Usage by Michael Swan and English Grammar in Use (Cambridge University Press), but then I stopped relying on...

Iam a student in dalian maritime university.I hope somebody can help me to imprive my accent on line. ok?just contact meI can tell u the history of china. (Please put your email address in your Profile, not in your post-- MM)