Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / December 2004

What must I be reading in order to improve my written english? On
occassion, and my temperament willing, I do pick up the dailies. More
frequently, I resort to a thorough _study_ of word meanings from the
dictionary. This happens when I come accross a word that is new to my

IS LL's Emailer correct or Is LL Emailer's correct.Please tell me as to
where the apostrophe should be added

I shall soon have to submit a dissertation at university for my BA degree,
but my lecturers have told me that some of my ideas in previous essays have
been too simplistically expressed and that I need to use a higher register.
I was therefore wondering if there's a website or a ...

Hi, my name is Francesco, I live in Italy, I'm writing becouse I'm looking
for some friends speak english to improve my english knowledge and if you
want I can explain to you Italian lenguage, I dont look for sex, girlfriend
but only reliable peaple

Need some explanation of the following.
(I have entered the site
http://www.dotnet-webhosting.com/dotnet-hosting/default.aspx, that has the
following words, and I want to know, if that means, the Sql Server DB is

Does anyone have experience from using the Rosetta Stone method on
computer?
I am going to learn Japanese.
I tried out a trial of Rosetta Stone but was confused a bit when I

Hello..
I am looking for resources (web & software) that can be used to
teach 5-6 year old children the basics of English.  This would
start from the visual recognition of letters, moving on to their

I am looking for a composition book recommendation. I would like to
read a book that contains examples, taken from modern writing and/or
political speeches, that illustrate the various sections of
Aristotle's Rhetoric.  Does anyone have any recommendations. I

A reporter on TV corrected himself by using mandate in the place of
mandidate (pronounced man!die!date!). Can it be treated as a threat to
the subject of the sentence?

After reading your posts, here's what comes to mind (please forgive my
mind is a messy place) regarding pronounciation:
Illiterates can speak and listen fine but not read or write words; for
them meaning is in pronounciation.

 There is a sentense here, but I don't know what is the logic of this
sentense.
"A breakdown in accountability enabled the rogue trader to bring the
established investment bank to its knees."

The Abron kingdom of Jaman was established in the seventeenth century by
an Akan group, the Abron, who had fled the developing Asante confederation
in what is present-day Ghana. From their settlement south of Bondoukou,
the Abron gradually extended their hegemony over the Juula in ...

do you know any idiom with word 'mantelpiece'?
I've searched all my dictionaries and also internet,
but I didn't find any.
Thank for your help.

Can you support me in translation my web page in English.
Thank you for every comment.
Goran
http://cerna.gradiste.com/eng/default.asp

Often in chat rooms the need to translate comes up.  I am sure there are
many but http://world.altavista.com/ Babel Fish is handy.
My wish would be that Yahoo or another Messenger would translate on the fly.
I am posting here hoping enough other people would think this idea was