How To Pronounce Verb

Check out tefl tesol about Fastest TESOL Course and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: K.C. - U.S.A. said: Korean learners of EnglishKorean learners of english, in general, face some common obstacles when it comes to pronouncing english words. This is simply because some sounds from english words do not exist in the Korean alphabet. One such case is the “r” sound. Koreans substitute the “r” sound from the english alphabet with the “l” sound from their alphabet— known as Hangul— which they believe comes closest to mimicking the english “r” sound. For example, a common word my...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Companies Credible TESOL and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: J.L. - U.S.A. said: Problems for learners in South KoreaCommon Problems for english Learners in South Korea (10). english learners in South Korea face a unique set of problems when learning to speak, write, and listen in english. Educators of Korean learners of english must keep in mind the reoccurring patterns and common mistakes that many Koreans make while they learn english. Since the Korean language is fundamentally different from the english language, Korean learners face problems with phonology,...  [Read more]

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Pronunciation Problems for Chinese Students of English As a global language, English has been popularly taught as the second language in China for quite a few years. Now there are more Chinese people learning English on various purposes, such as applying for a higher paid job, studying and living abroad, or establishing business with western countries. According to my experience of learning and teaching English, it is harder to master English pronunciation than English grammar for Chinese students. Chinese grammar may appear quite simple compared to that of many highly-inflected Western languages (e.g. Russian, Latin, etc.), or even the low-scale verb conjugations, for instance, of English (e.g. "swim, swam, swum") because of the lack of inflections. Even though there are similarities...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL St. Matthews Kentucky and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This lesson was quite interesting because of the obvious differences in the two lessons. The first one seemed a bit exaggerated although it allowed to see the mistakes very clearly, especially I noticed that the teacher turned his back to the class and that his attitude was really terrible. In the second lesson I'd focus a bit less on the animal vocabulary, dedicate less time to this part and also chose not so exotic, complicated and difficult to pronounce animals. He also didn't mention that...  [Read more]