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I went to a couple similar Franco-anglo programs in France, where people would get together and just chat in English and French. It was pretty fun, and it was a good way to meet people who spoke the other language and practice.

could you give me an example? I've never heard of a language abroad being threatened into extinction because of the spread of English... certainly native american languages, but I don't see how TEFL relates to that.. in situations like immigrant communities or other small language pockets, it is nat...

Sorry guy. I didn't come on this forum to post with incendiary characters such as yourself, so I won't bother with more of a reply.

I feel like "no" sounds like "no more (happy)", while not is actually a negation. So when you say the clownfish is not happier than any other fish, I get the impression that he's in fact sadder than the other fish. No happier just means he's about the same. That's what I think...

No, no. Where did you get racism? -- are you still talking to me? And there is no argument about whether or not I'm Chinese. The point that I was making was that I had a crazy teacher situation happen to me too, and you have to see how funny and ridiculous it is. We seriously called her Crazy. The p...

Out of curiosity, what can possibly be the debate about Spanish v and b? Basically, v and b have both been b since the late middle ages; b has since been lenited into a bilabial fricative intervocalically, g and d have undergone a similar change. Man, how rude of her to write that on the board. The ...

passivization doesn't stress the agent, it stresses the patient or theme which is moved to the front of the sentence and given emphasis. note: passivization can't occur when a patient or theme is the subject in the active sentence (google unaccusative verbs). *it can only occur when there is an agen...

No, I'm afraid "a fire" is still the agent. See the emboldened part of the quote above. What I would like to know is as a native speaker would you be as likely to say either. Does anyone have access to corpora to test this? it's not. this may be an instance where wikipedia is wrong, or fails to sho...

the fire is no longer the agent in the passive voice; in passivization the original agent theta role gets thrown out. it becomes an adjunct like "in 1990", and adjuncts are interchangeable. both sentences sound fine.

I think you have to be bold, you can't be afraid to make up never-before-heard-of phrases and sound silly and be laughed at. You can't be afraid of sounding stupid. You have to be creative and have the deductive reasoning skills to figure out what you've never heard before. And you have to be very, ...

well. it's basically a fact that if you don't "learn" a language by around 12, you'll never quite achieve native speaker status in it. and it's certainly easier for kids to pick up other languages. as for not being able to juggle multiple languages.. that's not true. I have friends who grew up speak...

She reckons "I musn't give you a refund if you haven't got a receipt" must be correct, as musn't means the same as not be allowed to, and "I am not allowed to give you a refund if you haven't got a receipt" is correct. I know she is wrong, but WHY is she wrong?! Help me! I dunno, in this context mu...

I'd like to help, but I don't entirely understand. Is the topic you and your classmates correcting each other's English writing? And you're interviewing your classmates for their opinions on this?

Ok. I can't help you with sites (besides this, whenever you need to research something, go to google.com and wikipedia.org), but I can tell you what I know. (Or what I think I know... so.. faites attention! it's never good to just take what others say at face value, anyway, without looking it up for...

cool.. could you give some examples to explain what you're saying?