My observation, four words many advanced English learners in China pronounce incorrectly are [February]: ❌ Feb-roo-er-y. ✅ The first letter R should be omitted — that is, “Feb-u-we-ry.” [comfortable]: ❌ Com-four-tuh-ble. ✅ The letters OR should be omitted, and an R sound should be added to the letter A, even though no R is there … Continue reading Four Words You May Pronounce Incorrectly
Category: Speaking
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, to rub it in is to make someone feel worse about something the person already feels embarrassed about: I know I shouldn’t have paid that much for the poster – don’t rub it in, OK? According to the Collins English Dictionary, to rub it in is to keep on mentioning … Continue reading rub it in / 哪壺不開提哪壺 / 埋汰某人
by Gerard Nolst Trenité This version is essentially the author's own final text, as also published by New River Project in 1993. A few minor corrections have however been made, and occasional words from earlier editions have been preferred. Following earlier practice, words with clashing spellings or pronunciations are here printed in italics. (Source: … Continue reading The Chaos
We know that some letters in some English words are silent: love, gnome, climb, indict, Etobicoke, etc. These ghost letters are written but not pronounced. However, other words, as fewer English learners may have noticed, contain sounds that come from nowhere — we just hear the sounds without seeing any corresponding letters. For example, there … Continue reading Beyond Ghost Letters
