The State of English in Singapore from an international perspective

  Should you improve your command of English or learn more languages? Alex talked with Kai, Vernon, Kevin, and myself last month, for the Limpeh Is Foreign Talent V-log series. We had a very interesting, open and unscripted discussion on many topics related to: Singlish, accents, languages, and pronunciation. Featuring Kai – Linguist, Polyglot, Language Guru (Finland)...

The British Struggle with English pronunciation

With nine letters and four syllables, the tongue-twisting ‘phenomenon’ has been named as the most mispronounced word in the English language.     Top 20 mispronounced words:   1. Phenomenon (fi-nom-uh-non) 2. Anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi-tist) 3. Remuneration (ri-myoo – nuh-reyshun) 4. Statistics (stuh-tis-tiks) 5. Ethnicity (eth-nis-i-tee) 6. Philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl) 7. Provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv) 8. Anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs) 9....

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