I want to Learn English

Question

Hello to all.

My name is Silvio, I'm from Paraguay. I'm learning English, wait help me, and correct my mistakes please

thanks to all

Answer 1

¡Su Inglés es perfecta!

I wish my Sapanish was!

Answer 2

Todo lo que necesitas es la práctica! Inglés es fácil! y esa frase es perfecta

Soy de los Estados Unidos, encantado

Answer 3

Silvio
Compared to the Spanish verbs etc English verbs are easy. But there are some problems. First you must learn the irregular verbs - there is no "system" for learning these - you must have a list of them and learn it. Second English spelling and pronunciation are illogical. But practice and people will help you on this forum. Good luck.

Answer 4

Hello to all.

My name is Silvio, I'm from Paraguay. I'm learning English, wait help me, and correct my mistakes please

thanks to all

Me imagino que estabas pensando en la palabra esperar cuando escribiste wait. Esperar quiere decir "wait" y "hope". En este caso se dice "Please help me and correct my mistakes" (favor de ayudarme y corregir mis errores/equivocaciones).

Bae'yo paricó chamigo (no sé si lo escribí bien)

I think Silvio was trying to say "I hope you can help me". Well spotted Nathaniel with wait and hope.

Answer 5

Hello to all.

My name is Silvio, I'm from Paraguay. I'm learning English, wait help me, and correct my mistakes please

thanks to all

Me imagino que estabas pensando en la palabra esperar cuando escribiste wait. Esperar quiere decir "wait" y "hope". En este caso se dice "Please help me and correct my mistakes" (favor de ayudarme y corregir mis errores/equivocaciones).

Bae'yo paricó chamigo (no sé si lo escribí bien)

Answer 6

Hello to all.

My name is Silvio, I'm from Paraguay. I'm learning English, wait help me, and correct my mistakes please

thanks to all

Hi Silvio, my name is Homero, I'm from Mexico, I'm living in Coatzacoalcos and I'm working in a maritime company.

It's my first day in this blog, could you answer me to confirm That I'm doing well my comments?

Greetings

Answer 7

hi i'm newbie in this forum, and i need too much learn english. i hope to reach this point and also make freands.pleaace tolke to me.

Answer 8

dont worry, actually english is such a good language to learn, im from philippines and its our 2nd language..
speaking english is trying to be more competitve!

any way, yo llamo mark, soy de ciudad de marikina, piipinas

Answer 9

HI Nancy or anybody , please get in touch with any forer you wish by PM or e-mail.
We also have a nice chat on this forum to practise both English or Spanish.

Answer 10

Hi Silvio,

Your English is very good! I wish my Spanish was. Maybe we could help one another?

Regards,
Nancy

Answer 11

Silvio
Do not be distracted by all the above comments.
Concentrate on listening to English.
Don't worry too much about making mistakes - we all make mistakes.
Don't worry too much about trying to speak like a native speaker - we ALL have accents. Accents are not a problem but pronunciation is.
Learn the most common irregular verbs by heart. Then discover how easy the rest of the English verb system is compared to Spanish.
When you feel like it study the modals in English.
These are:
can-could
will-would
shall-should
may-might
used to-ought to
and must.
They can all be used with any verb but remember modals are not "auxiliary VERBS" as many teaching books call them. They are "special words" that modify real verbs.
If you need any help I have a lot of things that I can email you.

Answer 12

Hello, and thank you all.

I'm taking note of everything, especially of the controversy, which I consider very positive, because the truth that he believed only problem I had to learn.

Again, thank you very much for all

And do not forget, Please help me and correct my mistakes

Answer 13

'a schwa is an unstressed vowel such as the a in comma, e in model, second o in common, i as in one American pronunciation of mobile [mob"uh"l], all pronounced as "uh" by many speakers.

Oops, I just realized that this is what I wrongly referred to as a semivowel. You can never fully trust your teachers.

Answer 14

Todo lo que necesitas es la práctica! Inglés es fácil! y esa frase es perfecta

Soy de los Estados Unidos, encantado

Oh, and learning English isn't 'easy'. It requires a lot of work to learn any new (to you) language with any degree of proficiency. If it were easy there would be no need for teachers of English as a Second Language in our schools. (Which coincidentally I am studying to become.)

However, in my experience, people from Paraguay generally learn to speak English much easier and with a better accent than other hispanohablantes because of the prevalence of Guaraní in Paraguay. The sounds that the letters make are surprisingly similar (to my ear).

Answer 15

Further to my previous comments I thought the following may be useful.

a pronounced in the alphabet as ay (as in the word mate)
e pronounced in the alphabet as ee (as in the word edict)
i pronounced in the alphabet as ei (as in the word life)
o pronounced in the alpbabet as oh (as in the word only)
u pronounced in the alphabet as yu (as in the word union)

y pronounced in the alphabet as "why" is usually considered to be a consonant (as in yet). But it also is used as a vowel (as in merry), and then functions as a letter i.

The vowel a may be pronounced:
1. a as in apple (short a)
2. a as in father (long a)
3. ay as in mate (peculiarly English a)
4. as a schwa'.
5. "e" as in many.
6. "aw" as in mall.
7. "o" as in alter.
8. "eh" as in Mary.

The vowel e may be pronounced:
1. e as in get (short e)
2. e as in beta ["bay-ta"] (long e)
3. ee as in edict (peculiarly English e)
4. as a schwa'.
5. "uh" as in mercy.
6. or it may be silent as in life.

The vowel i may be pronounced:
1. i as in pit (short i)
2. i as in machine (long i)
3. ei as in life (peculiarly English i)
4. as a schwa"

The vowel o may be pronounced:
1. o as in font (short o)
2. oh as in only (long o)
4. as oo as in t"oo"morrow
5. "uh" as in some.
6. as a schwa'

The vowel u may be pronounced:
1. u as in full (short u)
2. u as in brute (long u)
3. yu as in union (peculiarly English u)
4. "uh" as in cup

'a schwa is an unstressed vowel such as the a in comma, e in model, second o in common, i as in one American pronunciation of mobile [mob"uh"l], all pronounced as "uh" by many speakers.

Further, for example a town called "Lesta" is actually written "Leicester"
Here a pair of vowels are reduced to one ("ei" becomes "e") and the middle "e" is dropped and the "er" becomes a schwa.
By the way the scwha is the most common sound in the English language.