By Vocabulary, Accents

Re: Berlusconi's English

[Video] I didn't understand everything that Slovakian minister said... it even took me a little to figure out that "vee veel" was supposed to be "We will", lol.

Re: AMERICANS PLEASE HELP!!

First, study a lot to improve your grammar and enrich your vocabulary.Second, do as many things as you can in English. This includes reading books and magazines, watching films and TV programmes, listening to music and radio etc.Third, improve your pronunciation (practice, practice,...

Re: Native-speaker/native language

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual,...

Re: I Want To Be Fluent English Speaker How Please?

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...

Re: the best way to learn english?

Speak without Fear The biggest problem most people face in learning a new language is their own fear. They worry that they won’t say things correctly or that they will look stupid so they don’t talk at all. Don’t do this. The fastest way to learn anything is to do it – again and again until...

Re: How to learn English from music/songs?

Teroff wrote:Hello. I think this is bad idea to learn English from musics and other. First of all you must learn a gramma and after that you may learn English from Music/song, but not gramma only vocabulary bank. But this is my IMHOSometimes I thought of it as you did. But I take me back in...

Re: have --> huv

I see, thanks a lot.I'd better not focus on these seemingly trivial features, or I'll go crazy, lol. It seems to me that, apart from "important features" that are worth learning about (like T+Y=CH, tapped T's, etc.), there are an awful lot of interesting features that are likely to vary from...

How can a non-native English speaker improves his accent

Hi friends greetings to you all Is it really important that a non-native English speaker should speak almost(99%) like that of a Native English speaker.I mean the ACCENT.Or is it OK if a non-native was good in pronounciation,fluency,vocabulary and grammar.Which is really...

Re: Grammars of Songs

Quangtn03 wrote: Here're my questions:If you don't understand the lyrics, will you be able to remember the song? It is easier to remember a song if you understand the lyrics. But understanding the lyrics is not simply a matter of grammar. It's a matter of vocabulary and collocation.Why are...

Re: When I have trouble...

Hi everyone... Anonymous, I understand that for most learners this would be too much... as long as you are understood, you're fine. But there are several different kinds of learners. I think we were talking about advanced learners who are interested in understanding English very well,...