English language accent percentages
What percentage of people in the world speak American language accents vs British or other accents?
Accent percentages
American accents 70%
English accents 15%
Canadian accents 5%
Australian accents 5%
Other 5%
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English language church service in Krakow
Krakow, Poland is a city with perhaps as many churches per square foot as anywhere in the world. One church that might be of value for English speakers is the Church of St. Giles. If you are visiting Krakow, this church has an English speaking mass on Sunday at 10:30, […]
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Top ten nouns used in English
1 Time
2 Person
3 Year
4 Way
5 Day
6 Thing
7 Man
8 World
9 Life
10 Hand
This list surprises me. Time at number 1. This list of the most common English nouns was from written English not Spoken English, so in reality I think the most common nouns would be different with Spoken English. Read more […]
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English mistakes
English words that are often mistaken
I am no grammarian or spelling master so I am sure I am guilty of a few of these mistakes, even on my language blog. Check out the list and see how you are using English
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List of twenty weird words
List of the strangest English words
For example:
7. Limerance
To be in love
8. Mesonoxian
Pertaining to midnight
9. Mungo
A dumpster diver - one who extracts valuable things from trash
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The country that will dominate will determine next world language
The powers
The way I see it is there is the USA, Europe, China, Russia, India.
Other power
Other considerations are either too small, like Japan or South Korea or like Africa or South America or the Arab world, does not have; at this time have a critical level […]
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Origin of the word idiom ’son of a gun’
I love the origin of words, they help me learn new words in a foreign language by adding richness to the word I am trying to learn. Here is an English word origin that is interesting. In English we say ’son of a gun’. The origin […]
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The easiest language to learn
Easiest language
English- no cases, no ender, no word, agreement, arguably no grammar. Language is everywhere and can be herd, absorbed and used anywhere. Short words, verbs change only in the third person. Native speakers are very forgiving of mistakes as so meant people speak it as a second Language. This makes […]
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Like in France and other counties that are being exposed to English, there is some degree of encroachment of English on the Russian language. Ussually young people travel to the west or at least see American movies and shows and pick up slang. It is just not that pick up slag, it is they use […]
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Understanding a foreign language
Foreign language
If you have never understood a foreign language to the point of comprehension, what it feels like before you reach fluency is - he is saying ’something about this’ or ’something about that’. It does not feel like our beloved English, but it does not feel all bad either. You […]
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