Firstly, what a brilliant essay. This is beautifully written and extremely detailed. You tell the story well and it is easy to understand and follow what you're saying. It is very accurate! I had to look very carefully for mistakes! I love the subject of your essay too (pronunciation is my specialist area) and I agree, it is so hard! If someone doesn't think it's difficult then get them to write down what you say when you say these words: hot, hut, heart, hurt, hat. I bet they find it hard, if not impossible! Let me know if you want to book a lesson for this, it's my favourite thing in the world to teach. I think the best way to learn it is by visualising the shape of the mouth, and then having a bit of a work out to practice (learning to speak a new language is just like teaching your tongue to dance a new dance!)
You've got a couple of spelling mistakes:
- subject
- responded
- subject
- practising (practice - noun, practise - verb)
- immediately
- English (always needs a capital letter)
In terms of grammar I found it really hard to find any mistakes! Here's a piece of information I hope is new for you:
- We usually use "many" and "much" in negative sentences or questions - not in positive sentences. eg. "We haven't got much water, we don't have many eggs" in positive sentences we use "a lot of" or "loads of" (less formal) eg. "We have a lot of water, we have loads of water"
You've used some amazing vocabulary in this essay and the grammar is highly accurate! I hope I have given you some new information and you can use it to correct your essay yourself. I'd love to see the corrected version if you'd like to leave a comment.
Best wishes,
Katherine
My Hard Time Learning How to Pronounce English Vowels
Two weeks ago we were talking about English in my Spanish class, you know an every day thing, and one of my classmate asked to the professor ``Which language is the hardest to learn, English or Spanish?`` The teacher don't know English, so he reponded that he didn't know the answer then asked if somebody knew English in the classroom and some people rose their hand, I was among them obviously. After giving my opinion on the suject, and bringing up that English has some vowel sounds that Spanish doesn't, I suppose my teacher got curious and asked me to explain those sounds in the next class. since I didn't want to sound like I didn't know what I was talking about, I said ``yes``, although I didn't know how to pronounce those sounds very well, so I kind of got stressed out.I had a week to get ready for my presentation so I started practicing emmidiatly immediately. I was looking for videos about phonetics and messaging a bunch of people so that I could practice my pronunciation, and I got lucky because I found many nice people willing to help. The funny thing is that I was in a language group, but that wasn't much of a help for me because many english speakers there were not very active and I needed people to focus on me and really teach me how to pronounce those difficult sounds, which I couldn't get in a group of 80 people.
The day of the presentation presetation day had come and I came to realize that I had learned more in a week learning with random people than in two months with my group and I felt a bit angry. I was a bit nervous, but I had practiced very much and my new friends told me that my pronunciation was good, so I gave my presentation and it was successful, I was very happy, but I couldn't help but thinking that I was wasting time with my group and I was not enjoying it as I used to, so I recently left the group, and I'm trying to practice my english harder than before so I can achieve my goal.
Thanks for reading, and correct me if I made a mistake, please.
