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freesoul
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Yes, English is a Germanic language, brought by a German tribe called "Aenglaland".
When responding to my perplexed 'level-one' students who are puzzled by, for example, not pronouncing 'K' in ' Know', I always have fun in class elaborating how ' inglizi' is a cocktail language and far from any phonetically structured languages such as Romance languages: French  |
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NigerianWhisper
Joined: 21 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Dear NigerianWhisper,
Why not start your own thread?
Regards,
John
P.S. By the way, are you a native speaker? |
No. I am definitely not a "Native Speaker".
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