By Vocabulary, Pronunciation

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: 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: Poll: British English vs American English

When I attended school in the late Middle Ages, I never wondered whether I was taught British or American English. I suppose I was taught both: differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. I find it strange that anyone would like to confine his knowledge of the language to just one...

Message from John Cleese

> *Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A.!* > > A Message from John Cleese (British comedian) > > > To: The citizens of the United States of America: > > > In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President > of the USA and thus to govern...

Where the stress falls in a word

Many have expressed that stress is unpredictable. I have come across a nice explanation for why stress in English seems irregular. The answer to this question is in a book for teachers called "Teaching Pronunciation: A Reference for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages" by...

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones, easy grammar). Now I'll start off by saying that...

Re: memorizing vocabulary

I'm afraid there is no easy way to increase one's vocabulary. It requires work, sometimes awfully lot of work. It is useful, however, to invent a sentence in which you use the new word you encounter. Normally, the stranger the sentence, the easier you remember it. I also have a small notebook in...

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

of it is not important We learn foreign languages to comunicate we are able to communicate in English if we know 1000

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: 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,...