What do you make of "plain speaking"?

[Guest]

Dear Alan,

i consider myself a plain spoken person. I really like to go straight to the point. I must confess that i have enjoyed the topic of discussion. I am neither a teacher nor a student. I just enjoy working or handling English questions to test my knowledge of the language.

Please don't hesitate to mail me questions any time you send me mail on English topics.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Thank you.
Byee

[Eduaordo]

Hi, this is eduardo, for tehe fist time, I am a learner opf Englis, ando I love this lenguage, but it is sverydifrficul fot me to speak it, I can undestand quiet a be ( bit?) but when I have to talk to somebody, inven if I ahave alll the neccessary words, I do not know how to put them in order, Pleas Mr. Allen, help me!! Bye the Way, I am from the Dominnican Republic, y my language is Spanish, ( Español),Thank you for your letter and yor time with thes students who wnant to learn but never do.
Eduaordo

[Guest]

Dear Alan,

This is Puneeth S H, such an wonderful job you have taken up. i really appreciate as i am on the other par. Could you help me out to come up with technical english.

Thank you

Best Regards,
Puneeth S H

[Karolus]

I consider your newsletters very interesting and useful. This is the way I like to communicate and learn English, with the addition of audio, which is included in your lessons. For me this is the best, on account of my little time to study... I am living now in Spain, I am 67, English teacher in theory, but in fact learner of English, as in my early days the method of teaching English and languages in general was very bad, at least in my own experience: just grammar teaching and never talking in English and when talking in English "thinking" in Spanish.... I´ve never seen something so catastrophic like that!

So I enjoy very much your modern method of teaching English. See you soon,

Carlos
carlosalberto01@fibertel.com.ar and carolus@arnet.com.ar Toledo, Spain
but my country is Argentina.

yes, but take your time...

[Karolus]

yes, but take your time...

[rajeev.]

hi,
i liked your article. the way of communication actually depends on situations. but i like to be straight forward almost all the time. i am pursuing M A English and also a teacher. i expect more articles from you. thank you.

rajeev

[Guest]

hello
I am want help becoze I am from Iraq please send me some book

[Guest]

hello
I am want help becoze I am from Iraq please send me some book

[Zhannat Tutbayeva]

Dear Alan,
thank you so much for the lecture.
I am a teacher at the university, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
I teach Practical English as well as English Lexicology. You see, your Figuratively Speaking was what I needed. Lexicology is the term used mainly by Soviet scientists, it is the study of vocabulary.
Also, I am planning to conduct classes on "Public speaking" (we have our small Toastmaster club!) in September, so I repeat i APPRECIATE the lecture.
Zhannat

[Guest]

hello, I'm an English learner. I would like to learn a lot of expressions and idioms , how the way to express my opinion. and I want to learn about cross-culture communication. many thanks for your materials.

[Guest]

Dear Alan,
Hi! I'm not a teacher but a student who wants to improve her english through speaking and be familiar with english grammar. I live in Senegal and I'm undergraduated in English but I don't succeed in speaking english fluently and I wish you could help me reach that goal. I want to be fluent in English; what can I do? sometimes when I discuss with natives, I met difficulties to understand some words just because I'm not used to the way they pronounce them or I find them them so fast,
it seems as if they swallow words;
I try to do some tests online and I notice that the marks I get are not so bad but how to perform in speaking?

Thank you for your help

[kokoskanes]

good subject to discover the richness of the english language.

thank you

[Guest]

Hi!
Thank you so much.Your well framed,well planned e.lecture ,articles are of great help.
Regards
Arundhoti.
(India)

[Olga BBB]

Hello, Alan
I’m both an English teacher for adults (mostly ABC level) and a learner who adores English and wants to improve it.
Thanks a lot for really interesting information about the ways of communication. As for me, I’m not Jack Blunt. Moreover, at least in my own language (Russian) I often use metaphors, simile and hyperbole as many people. When they speak they use them without hesitating and even not suspecting that they have just said something like this “ Oh, hello! I haven’t seen you for ages”
It doesn’t mean that these people are one, two or ten hundreds years old. This phrase is very wide-spread (I think it is spoken in many languages all over the world), but few people are deep in thought that it is the very hyperbole. Anyway, our communication would be poor and dull without these means of expressions.
I would also like to add that in Russian language we can find an equivalent to the phrase “to call a spade a spade” – “to call white white and black black”.
Thank you again, Alan, for your useful lessons.
Olga

[Alexandru Broscoi]

Dear Alan Townend,

My name is Alexandru Broscoi. I am an electrical engineer working in research Power Electronics. Thank you for your useful articles. I want to improve my English; it helps me in my research. I live in Romania Cluj-Napoca, I am retired now but I continue to do research.

Best Regards,
Alex