Native Portuguese speakers often grapple with letting go of the pronunciation rules of their native language. For them, this is especially difficult. Portuguese has very consistent rules of [...]
French speakers have a leg up when it comes to learning English and proper English pronunciation, although there are some common mistakes that are made. Many English language words are French in [...]
It’s compulsory for Russian students to study a foreign language beginning as early as the second or fifth grade. The language courses most often taken are English, German, and French. Russian [...]
There are grammar rules to English, but even native English speakers regularly disregard them and are prone to make some common grammar errors. Spanish speakers that aim to improve their English [...]
Vietnamese ESL students share many of the same pronunciation errors that English language students from elsewhere do—consonant clusters, long and short vowel sounds, and swapping one consonant [...]
The way sounds are organized in Korean is very different from that of English–technically this is called the “phonology” of a language. These phonological differences affect Korean [...]
Though many Turkish speakers study English beginning in primary school, the language teaching methods often rely on rote memorization; students are focused on drilling grammar rules at the [...]
English isn’t an easy language to master—Japanese speakers can have an especially difficult time with pronunciation problems when learning English due to the differences between English and their [...]
Arabic is spoken in many countries so there are a wide variety of dialects, 4 in Saudi Arabia alone—Gulf, Hijazi, Najdi, and the Standard Arabian dialect. English pronunciation problems can vary [...]
The most common pronunciation errors by Chinese speakers can be traced to the students’ tendencies to translate to their native language. The fact that English and Chinese share a similar word [...]
