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@ cailin donn:
You're quite right there, my dear.
And that's just why I took those three into my "SIGNATUR(e)"

Greetings,
Peter

@ Lucarda:
And this, by the way, is how teachers torture their students, after they've been being treated badly by the pupils for quite a while! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Winken" />
(And this last sentence was a free-of charge grammar lesson in TENSES)
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@Peter

Thank you for the grammar lesson. But I fear it is not only for free but also without any success <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt=":oops:" title="Verlegen" />
Day by day I fight with mothertongue-grammar. So I don´t believe I will comprehend english grammar some day <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Winken" />

cheers (in hope, there are not soooooooo many mistakes in what I wrote here)
Lucia

PS: 14 years of torturing should be enough for both sides <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt=":oops:" title="Verlegen" />
I never wanted provoke anyone here on board.

Dearest Luc!

I was never aiming at any mistakes you've ever made in whatever you wrote in here! Moreover, this last entry you wrote was absolutely speckless, as far as grammar is concerned.
I was only reacting to that remark about torturing my poor suffering fellow teachers. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt="" title="Weinen" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt="" title="Weinen" /> <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt="" title="Weinen" />
So, don't worry, I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, and you've never hurt mine!
Greetings,
Peter

P.S. Did you like that pronunciation test I posted yesterday?

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Hi @ all !

Here is another tonge twister to train your pronounciation:

[b:16zczt14][color=blue:16zczt14]English

The English Language is clear enough
despite bough and cough and dough and tough.
Mistakes are possible, it’s true
with hiccough, thorough, lough and through.
Beware of heard – a tricky word
that looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead – it’s said like bed not bead
It’s wrong to pronounce a fellow “deed”.
Watch out for meat and great and threat
the rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother
nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a rhyme for there
nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
There’s always dose and rose and lose -
look those up with goose and choose,
and cork with work and card with ward
or font with front and word with sword
and do and go or thwart and cart –
Speaking English is an art
with all these trap in which to fall –
it’s a wonder we can speak at all.[/color:16zczt14][/b:16zczt14]

(Author unknown. Additional material by Peter Bamber.
Peter Bamber scripsit – St. Julian’s - Shrewbury)


So keep on trying !

Mara

[i:3tvfjqdk]Hello,

I've got something quite similar here:[/i:3tvfjqdk]

[b:3tvfjqdk][color=blue:3tvfjqdk]When the English tongue we speak,
why is break not rhymed with weak?
When we want to make a verse,
we can’t rhyme a horse with worse.
Beard is different from heard,
Lord is not pronounced like word;
cow is cow, but show is show,
do is never rhymed with go.
Think of rose or nose and lose
and of goose – and yet of choose.
Cough and through don’t rhyme with plough,
nor do rough or dough with bough.
Don’t rhyme flood or food with good,
you’d be laughed at if you should.
We have year and hear, but pear,
come and home, and are and care,
five and give, and boot and foot,
post and cost and shut and put.
And since lay is rhymed with say,
why not laid with said, I pray!
Wherefore done, but gone and stone?
Is there any reason known?
And in short it seems to me:
Sounds and letters disagree.[/color:3tvfjqdk][/b:3tvfjqdk]

In Russia the saying goes:
[color=green:3tvfjqdk][b:3tvfjqdk]“English is a very difficult language to read:
They write Manchester, but they pronounce Liverpool.”[/b:3tvfjqdk][/color:3tvfjqdk]
Greetings,
Peter