Here is the hilarious ‘hamburger’ screen from the movie ‘Pink Panther’.

It might seem ridiculous to most of us. How could it take so long for someone to learn to say such a simple sentence! But I am sure if you are a serious language learner, you must have experienced the same frustration before. It might [...]

I had never believed this could be done. A non-native speaker switches accents!
The other day I joined a skypecast, and I threw in one of the most commonly discussed topic on language learning: can a person become fluently in a foreign language without leaving his own country?
A person from the Philippines jumped in and started [...]

It was Friday night, the time to host my ad-hoc skypecast again. In the past two weeks, I hosted the ‘Learn a Language Now’ skypecasts to talk about all kinds of languages. This time, I wanted to do something different. I created a skypecast called ‘In Search of RP English Speakers’, with the following description:
“I [...]

Everyone thinks he speaks his native language without any accent. Ask around and you will see how true this statement really is.
A few years ago, I took an English improvement course offered in my company which was provided by an external language consultant company. The course was called the “Accent Reduction Course”. Its purpose was [...]