Archive for October, 2005

Some Reasons Why English is So Hard to Learn

Monday, October 31st, 2005

The posting below has been circulating on the net for quite some time. Most of the potential confusions in these sentences are related to accent — stress on one syllable or another, certain letters being pronounced or not, etc. Enjoy… and hang in there in your attempts to master this “crazy language”!

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PBS Website: “Do You Speak American?”

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Here’s a very interesting mini-site from American public broadcaster PBS about American English… including a discussion and examples of regional dialects.

http://www.pbs.org/speak

Spambot? Cybercat? Are we ruining the language? The experts weigh in.
Exactly how many varieties are there of American English? No one knows for certain.
Language expresses who we are, and who we want to be. It […]

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