English Pronunciation: Smart Learning Strategies for Accent Reduction
English Pronunciation: Smart Learning Strategies for Accent Reduction Here is more of the story about training and learning to speak clear English and get accurate English pronunciation. What’s the key to effective learning — whether learning to speak clear English or reduce one’s accent, or any kind of learning? One intriguing body of research […]
Accent Reduction: Why Your English Speech is Difficult to Understand Even Though You Live in an English Speaking Country
Accent Reduction: Why Your English Speech is Difficult to Understand Even Though You Live in an English Speaking Country What you are saying: “I have been trying my best to improve my English. I went to an ESL class and I had a private English tutor about four times. I couldn’t succeed. I think […]
English Language Communication- Did you know this about foreign-born people in the US?
Did you know this about foreign-born people in the US? For this last installment about interesting facts about people with English as a Second Language, here are data to satisfy your curiosity! A recent study by the Pew Research Center indicates that Asians have recently passed Latinos as the largest group of new immigrants […]
English language communication: What are most prevalent languages of the internet and publishing?
What are most prevalent languages of the internet and publishing? What are internet’s top languages by number of users? (Internetworldstats.com) English (27.3%) Chinese (22.6%) Spanish (7.8%) Japanese (5.3 %) Portuguese (4.3%) 4.0% and less are German, Arabic, French, Russian, Korean. Let’s look at a more informal way of measuring the languages of the internet […]
What are Facts About the World’s Most Spoken Language?
What are Facts About the World’s Most Spoken Language? Another snapshot of our wonderful talking world. What is the world’s most spoken language? Here, let’s focus on the most widely spoken languages by number of native speakers. Mandarin Chinese (1197 million) Spanish (406 million) English (335 million) Hindi-Urdu (260 million) Arabic (223 million) Portuguese […]
What are Five Important Numbers for Global Communication and English Speaking?
What are Five Important Numbers for Global Communication and English Speaking? In my previous blogs, we were talking about my favorite advice from pros and experts about preparing and delivering a presentation. Here in this post and the next couple we are going to look at wonderful numbers which give a snapshot of our […]
Understanding Americans’ Nonverbal Behavior
On Thursday August 22, 2013 Dr. Antonia Johnson did a workshop “Understanding Americans’ Nonverbal Behavior” for international teaching assistants at the University of Colorado at Boulder for the Fall Intensive Training. Here are brief summaries of those articles and bibliography information compiled by Grace Sanders. Summaries of Articles […]
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Indian Speakers
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Indian Speakers In India, about 10 percent of the population are English speakers. Of these, 226,449 speak English as a first language, while 125,000,000 speak English as an additional language. About 4 percent of the population consider themselves fluent Our Indian students live in: Boulder […]
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Chinese Speakers
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Chinese Speakers In Asia, the number of English-users has surpassed 350 million, equal to the number of people who live in countries where English is the dominant language: the United States, Britain and Canada. More Chinese children now study English — about 100 million — than there are Britons. […]
Three Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Spanish Speakers
Three Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Spanish Speakers Nearly 20% of Americans speak a different language at home. About 47% of the foreign-born population are Hispanic. The Latino population has doubled since 1990. Florida is home to the third highest total of Latinos, or 22.8 percent of the state’s population. California and Texas are home […]