By Vocabulary, Intonations

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...

Hi Anon,what Jim said makes a lot of sense, and we discussed it a little in another thread, I think.The point was that teaching completely descriptively is impossible. The teacher would have to say: Mr X says this, Mr Y says that, and Mr Z says another thing. Now learn what they say and then...

Hi,I'm not a native speaker, but if you want my opinion... I would never trust a TTS engine. I heard there are some excellent ones, if you look at them from a technical point of view. If you look at them from an ESL learner's point of view, then I'm afraid they are all barely decent.Consider all...

Milky wrote: <It would exclude any speaker whose ability to comprehend your English was not a problem.> Thanks for the clarification. So your sentence should have read something like this, right? "In informal situations (e.g. where you have to entertain overseas colleagues who don't...

Marvin A. wrote:Sorry, that went right over my head. Could you rephrase without all of those X's? If e.g. a native Italian deliberately speaks Italian with an English accent, and with English intonations, phrasings, etc., it is likely to be much more comprehensible to an English person who...

MrPedantic wrote: MrPedantic wrote: Alienvoord wrote:I've been to India 3 times, and knowing Hindi does help, at least in central India. But I find that while I'm there I do sometimes imitate the pronunciation and phrasing of Indian English. Maybe this is just because I'm immersed in it. I...

MrPedantic wrote: Alienvoord wrote:I've been to India 3 times, and knowing Hindi does help, at least in central India. But I find that while I'm there I do sometimes imitate the pronunciation and phrasing of Indian English. Maybe this is just because I'm immersed in it. I have the feeling that...

MrPedantic wrote: Alienvoord wrote:I've been to India 3 times, and knowing Hindi does help, at least in central India. But I find that while I'm there I do sometimes imitate the pronunciation and phrasing of Indian English. Maybe this is just because I'm immersed in it. I have the feeling that...

Alienvoord wrote:I've been to India 3 times, and knowing Hindi does help, at least in central India. But I find that while I'm there I do sometimes imitate the pronunciation and phrasing of Indian English. Maybe this is just because I'm immersed in it. I have the feeling that it helps me to be...

From a learner perspectives, spoken form of English is a lot more difficult to master than written. The reason is obvious. We often don’t have the time to compose a perfectly constructed sentence or response whereas in written form, we can search in our vocabulary for the proper words and the...