Wednesday 24 October 2012

IF ELIZA DOOLITTLE DID IT, WHY DON'T YOU GIVE A TRY TO IMPROVE YOUR PRONOUNCIATION?

Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) drives Professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) mad with her cockney accent...and then makes him do foolish things when she finally proounces the sentences in perfect British English.


Wednesday 17 October 2012

I WOULD LIKE TO BUY A HAMBURGER / ˈhæmbɜːrɡər /

Don't understimate the importance of a good pronounciation.  Please, please, please, don't say "i gulai to bay a jamburguer".  Remember that English vowels are completely different from ours.

Monday 15 October 2012

Wednesday 10 October 2012

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM


Junk food and junk mail. You can never get rid of them.
Monty Python's famous sketch that gave name to unwanted electronic mail.
What do you think the owners of "spam" (spiced ham) felt about the sketch and the new use of the word?

Saturday 6 October 2012

MEAN WHAT YOU SAY AND SAY WHAT YOU MEAN

The Italian man who went to Malta.  
“Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,