It's Merriam Webster Collegiate for native speakers of American English, and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary for ESL students. The most complete in the world (but also unnecessarily

How do you help someone who says I seen? If it's a learner who makes that mistake, then tell them it's wrong and they should say "I've seen" (or "I saw", it depends). Otherwise, if it's a native speaker,

But here the problem is different. The problem is not production, the problem is perception. I expect virtually all native speakers to be able to make a distinction in production : you can say NPR, or say MPR, and that's easy and only depends

Ashley, could you Please close the door. Is that a sentence you need to check? I think it's ok. Ashley, could you please close the door? But please start a new thread if you have some questions. Don't use old threads that have nothing or

Aaargh, one mistake as well. I didn't know that verb at all. But my English is not this advanced yet, so CPE stuff still sounds very challenging to me.

Thanks for the replies. Due to assimilation, One can produce MPR instead of NPR;one can hear MPR Another example: " S n P" is heard as SMP, and is produced as SMP instead of SNP. By the way, raindoctor, are you a native speaker with

In what context? Where did you see that? And have you already looked for the answer elsewhere? I expect you to have looked in a dictionary and on the net already. So what can you tell us? It might be Received Pronunciation.

I'm sick and tired because I can't seem to find a decent answer to some questions. So guess what, I'm gonna try to find out something more myself, doing experiments like a crazy scientist. I need to test native speakers' ears (and

That sounds interesting Clive. I just took a look at some examples, to see what it was about, and I found this one to be particularly interesting, since we seem to be pretty familiar with such "misunderstandings" and "odd

I'll just try to guess what is said in the second clip: And was bad with people, was probably dyslexic, a little autistic, maybe had Asperger syndrome, or whatever one of those things is. ..