By Universities, Intonations

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...

Hi Pax! I must agree, that there are some korean parents and students who want 'good looking' English teachers with very good pronunciation & intonation, like a native speaker. With the parents and koreans I've encountered, this is what they call back in Korea, "popular teachers". We have...

Annvan wrote:I hope to move (back) to Manila in the future and offer English tuition to Filipino teenagers preparing either for college/university or entering the business world/ a career. The thing is that I'm English, so my 'version' of English is British rather than American. My question is:...

Totally agreed!!! I have just finished checking my "Grammar for English Language Teachers" (published by the Cambridge University Press) and I still cannot really find / find out the answer, particularly between "might" and "may" when expressing possibility. Well, I guess I will just (have to)...

Hi All, I have been conducting Neutralized American Accent Training in Makati, Malate, Libis, and Quezon City for the last three months now. I have worked with Korean, Japanese, and Filipino executives, high school teachers, university students, and Filipino professionals. I utilize the book...

Interestingly, the Oxford University Press still inserts a comma before the 'and' in such a list, e.g. 1. The apple, orange, and melon are good for us. The second comma is therefore known as the 'Oxford' comma. It used to be the norm, but isn't much used in current BrE. The people who devise...