I am busy teaching English and visiting Toastmasters clubs, often in demand for explaining English. Many times my chief job seems to be teaching the basics, articles a and the, adjectives and adverbs, Americanisms and British English.
In Singapore half a dozen of us go around the clubs doing this. I and an American friend are in demand because we speak with correct intonation and accents.
Oddly enough, the others who don't speak as well, compensate by extremely detailed learning, even when they were not keen on English and academic studies as schoolchildren.
One such example is Terence, the dedicated student and teacher of English whose post I refer you to below.
The Mirror Effect: The Difference between a Chiasmus & an Antimetabol...: The following is a technical explanation, concerning rhetorical devices, on the difference between an ordinary chiasmus, and an antimetabo...
Do take a look. Even if the technical explanations pass you by, the quotations are a delight.
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
In Singapore half a dozen of us go around the clubs doing this. I and an American friend are in demand because we speak with correct intonation and accents.
Oddly enough, the others who don't speak as well, compensate by extremely detailed learning, even when they were not keen on English and academic studies as schoolchildren.
One such example is Terence, the dedicated student and teacher of English whose post I refer you to below.
The Mirror Effect: The Difference between a Chiasmus & an Antimetabol...: The following is a technical explanation, concerning rhetorical devices, on the difference between an ordinary chiasmus, and an antimetabo...
Do take a look. Even if the technical explanations pass you by, the quotations are a delight.
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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