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Announcement: Thank you and goodbye 0 Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:25 pm
Announcement: Ask Antimoon 0 Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:24 pm
Please give some advice on the accent (audio sample)  (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:02 am
Which is the second most important World language for Anglos  (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:26 pm
English not spoken 9 Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:59 pm
korean accented english 8 Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:46 pm
Would Early Childhood English Education be better off? 3 Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:59 pm
pronunciation of 'literature' 1 Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:36 pm
pronunciation about some words end in "ent"or" 6 Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:48 pm
"Its better to air in that direction" 8 Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:24 am
Whenever possible, use words with Germanic roots, not French  (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:45 am
writer  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 44 Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:29 pm
Can I use "not nearly so" in different contexts. 0 Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:29 am
Cooperation vs Collaboration  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:51 am
Beyond the Pale 8 Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:16 pm
1960s English in Mad Men 2 Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:27 pm
transport processing of good 1 Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:31 am
Weird word order 8 Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:59 am
How to pronounce "Taei"? 3 Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:37 am
Semantics 3 Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:35 pm
Percentage of Rhotic and Non-Rhotic speakers?  (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 50 Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:45 am
How native americans used to speak  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:47 am
Accent, Slang and Dialect are very different things... 12 Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:12 am
Ask for the meaning of one sentence 5 Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:22 am
How does one improve their pronunciation? 10 Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:30 am
The Chomskyan doctrine and foreign accents  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:25 pm
Supermemo method doesn't work for me  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:48 am
Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary of "American Englis 2 Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:49 pm
How many different words is in an average book? 12 Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:40 am
Advanced Learner's English Dictionaries? 13 Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:35 am
Travellers 3 Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:58 am
opened the floodgates  (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:50 am
Travellers 4 Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:33 pm
forehead pronunciation and message for Tom. 4 Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:24 am
Pussy 14 Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:13 am
My English pronunciation - please comment  (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:16 pm
Which one sounds more poetic? 5 Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:05 pm
"District 9" 3 Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:39 pm
Australian pronunciation question 12 Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:18 pm
[Locked] What Topic Brought You to Antimoon?  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:48 pm
cause for/cause of 1 Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:35 pm
Rhotic Ass or Arse? 6 Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:02 am
flaming 13 Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:57 pm
The speed of talking 4 Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:49 am
africation of alveolars 5 Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:47 am
More interested than accents than languages  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:23 am
Should people strive to rid themselves of accents? 10 Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:44 am
South Park 3 Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:02 am
CALL ME ~ CALMY merger 4 Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:01 am
Improving your English  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:54 am
put in/put on/put in on 1 Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:56 pm
Meaning of "Blow it out your ear" 2 Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:57 pm
Meaning of "Blow it out your ear" 7 Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:47 pm
patsy 3 Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:13 pm
can you discribe.... 2 Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:57 am
Making sure I fully understand the "the" rule. 8 Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:23 am
Is the user "T" still around? 7 Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:35 pm
Edits 5 Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:36 pm
Pronunciation Help! 5 Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:33 pm
Cambridge Pronunciation Dic Review.... 1 Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:00 pm
Why Can't Eng Teachers teach Eng to their children? 9 Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:30 pm
Why don't? 12 Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:12 pm
Do you speak differently than you write?  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 38 Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:50 am
accent sample 4 Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:47 am
what does fragile mean 8 Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:52 pm
Comments on Livemocha.com  (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:22 pm
what + [object] + is vs. what + is + [object] 4 Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:30 am
What is education? 14 Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:33 pm
the sinking dulness 8 Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:15 pm
Use of French in English 14 Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:04 pm
(Jamming) What meaning? 3 Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:06 pm
Question about written AE 13 Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:19 pm
Velarised "l" in RP English 2 Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:14 pm
What does this sentence mean 2 Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:08 am
'Half nine' in London - 8:30 and/or 9:30? 8 Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:00 pm
within / in 3 Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:09 pm
Pronunciation difference between NAmE and BrE  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:22 am
Is English only a language of business?  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 42 Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:29 am
Aussie kids using American style tonal characteristics 8 Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:43 pm
What does 'livery' mean in this context? 11 Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:34 pm
Cutty Sark 9 Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:28 pm
Do you think everyone's accent is slightly unique? 1 Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:17 am
Do Americans lose to Britons in English competency?  (pages: 1 2 ) 27 Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:14 am
Unintelligible Loss of Everything English 3 Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:02 pm
The Best of Antimoon Forum in 2005 5 Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:33 pm
Learning English from The New Yorker and The Economist  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:19 pm
close pronunciations, different meanings 6 Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:39 am
engagement 2 Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:20 am
Is English a good language for poetry? 4 Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:39 am
Modern conversational style 3 Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:06 am
Need your help,please  (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:57 pm
bite 4 Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:01 pm
My Writing Style  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 75 Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:32 am
Possessives of "you guys" and "me and Laura&q 8 Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:06 am
About English Dictionaries (British & American)  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 41 Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:11 am
Academic language vs ordinary language  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 39 Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:05 pm
Out of school 4 Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:40 pm
Grapes 8 Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:10 pm
A poetry reading  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 32 Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:27 pm
Can't speak to that 1 Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:07 am
Meaning of "I don't put on eyes" 3 Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:56 pm
Standard Scottish English 5 Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:10 am
The Great and Mighty Fuck  (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:03 am
Etymology of T-shirt 1 Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:40 pm
England and America are two countries separated by a common 11 Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:21 pm
cold turkey 1 Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:35 am
About the flapping of intervocalic /t/ in American English 9 Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:39 am
Afrikaans Problems 0 Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:57 pm
Do you actually like English as a language?  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 72 Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:25 pm
.. needs to tank up her campaign Am En 1 Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:39 pm
Antimoon method and flashcards  (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:48 pm
「Merriam-Webster's Advanced」VS&#12 4 Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:21 am
TomOHrrow or TomAHrrow  (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:56 am
Pronunciation of "Merriam" 13 Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:00 am
Living in a repressive environment 4 Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:23 am
Not + some: I didn't know you had some sisters 6 Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:57 pm
Boys under Five wearing Skirts 10 Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:44 pm
Meaning of "This isn't one of your better "  (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:42 am
"You lost you relevancy." 14 Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:38 am
Do races have different voices?  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 78 Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:46 am
The decline of America vs. the decline of English  (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 50 Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:46 am
55 Days *at* Peking? 2 Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:36 am
Scotland  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:47 pm
Victorian England 6 Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:17 pm
"English is based on Latin"  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 75 Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:37 pm
Easier time than I have/do  (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:53 am
Are these all acceptable? 9 Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:21 am
got / would get 13 Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:34 pm
What type of accent do I have- Unique case 7 Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:20 pm
the excessive bill-shaggy dog stories 1 Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:18 am
some one please help clarify this sentence for me 3 Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:44 am
Meaning of "sing your song" 3 Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:46 am
Anglosphere  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 34 35 36 37 38 ) 558 Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:56 pm
Simplification=confusion 10 Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:01 pm
Multiple definitions on Supermemo? 2 Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:46 pm
American accent ''tips'' on antimoon 9 Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:42 pm
To be or not to be. 10 Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:40 pm
Newfoundland English 5 Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:21 pm
Is this a native speaker?  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:42 am
Table 2 Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:41 pm
What is a thoroughly institutioanlized life like? 4 Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:19 pm
"I study X" or "I'm studying X"? 5 Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:41 pm
Is my English Weird?  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:24 pm
English Is the Best Language in the World  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) 125 Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:17 am
British speakers: pronunciation of "primarily"  (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 46 Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:45 am
Is English English comtamined by American English?  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 63 Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:06 pm
Calling class to order 0 Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:36 pm
Learning English by using only an ESL dictionary 7 Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:02 am
Moved: Why learn a foreign language? 8 Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:13 am
Ugly American 3 Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:58 pm
What is the difference between "can not" and " 7 Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:39 pm
Does this make sense? 12 Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:51 pm
Defining gender in English 10 Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:28 pm
A great pronunciation 9 Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:22 pm
How much does an american can understand australia English? 6 Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:47 am
Meaning of "grand high llama" 4 Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:23 am
Alas 6 Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:10 pm
Koera 4 Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:09 pm
It's "taller than I" not "taller than me"  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 42 Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:00 pm
addressing people by name 5 Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:34 am
"Everybody" in different sounds 5 Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:29 am
Does anyone like "a demotivator"?  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:53 am
Standing out 3 Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:13 am
"In (the) future" in American English 14 Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:52 pm
It need 1 Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:00 am
T and E law 6 Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:39 am
"this never-has-been" 5 Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:12 am
'If there be an...' Why be?  (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:04 am
"The Game of Musical Chairs" 4 Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:51 am
The use of "the" 3 Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:04 am
What does Goo Goo Dolls mean? 2 Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:49 pm
Asian American accent? 8 Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:44 pm
How is English less expressive than other languages?  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 64 Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:42 am
To crack the spine 1 Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:28 am
Writing online to practice? 0 Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:11 am
Why do we ship by truck? 3 Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:22 pm
flying colors 6 Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:40 am
We like to party, we like, we like to party. 0 Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:57 pm
Understandability of English 3 Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:57 pm
Black English vs. Obama  (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:50 pm
flirty girl 10 Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:34 pm
eyes 4 Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:21 pm
How do Americans pronounce these 3 words?  (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:18 am
The spread of rhoticity and Non-rhoticity 3 Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:04 am
Light novels 1 Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:02 am
"st" suffix 1 Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:06 pm
Richard Bach 4 Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:40 pm
Ransom vs money 3 Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:00 am
Can I borrow some paper? 7 Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:59 am
ALTHOUGH AND YET 1 Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:07 pm
You CAN End a Sentence With A Preposition...  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:09 pm
English is spoken better by the English  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 89 Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:24 pm
Featuring 1 Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:59 pm
Enveloping 1 Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:48 pm
How to distinguish 'work' and 'walk' 5 Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:13 pm
Time is nigh 3 Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:43 am
Dozen 4 Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:24 am
book 4 Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:40 pm
Third-person singular inflection 1 Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:44 pm
How d u think Chinese wud replace English as lengua franca?  (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ) 136 Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:05 am
neither nor 2 Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:49 pm
Did You Enjoy English in School?  (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:36 pm
Have Some pronunciation questions 6 Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:02 am
poem 12 Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:08 pm
what does "historical imperative" mean? 3 Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:40 pm
Whole mointain of misunderstanding  (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:39 am
Depletable 3 Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:17 am
more strict or stricter? 7 Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:43 am
phonetic database 3 Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:34 pm
What does this phrase mean? 8 Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:18 pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2 Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:18 pm
Does and/or mean "and and or", or "and or or&  (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:34 am
Simple past being used more in BrE 3 Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:37 am
On genitive antecedants.  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 36 Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:25 pm
qs 1 Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:42 pm
shut up 5 Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:55 pm
Use of verb 'to have' 0 Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:20 pm
User of verb 'to have' 0 Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:19 pm
Free Interactive Dictionaries 1 Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:39 pm
scared the hell 2 Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:12 pm
Pronouncing the name "Maria" and "Mariah" 5 Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:55 pm
Meaning of "I hope your arugula is rubbery" 1 Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:40 pm
A Wodehouse phrase 5 Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:58 am
Enforcing the artificial US/UK English divide  (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:59 pm
"I pick the apple hanging on the tree." - Ambiguou 4 Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:43 pm
possessive  (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:42 am
Seattle Accent  (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 45 Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:45 am
Meaning of "coincidinky" 4 Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:35 pm
hot 6 Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:47 pm
There is a Bathroom on the Right 5 Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:45 pm
What is HUNG 12 Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:12 am
Meaning of "break down" 1 Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:01 pm
high profile  1 Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:05 pm
How English Is Evolving.. 8 Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:29 pm
might modal/adverb 3 Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:25 pm
Meaning of "break down" 1 Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:05 pm
Skirting Board 2 Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:19 pm
dkgh jordan shoes ighi g 0 Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:40 pm
English Orthography 2 Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:17 am
wo'n't 14 Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:49 pm
CEO 2 Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:34 pm
dhgi jordan shoes lghi 0 Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:42 pm
Does this sound grammatically off  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:21 pm
"libry" for "library". 6 Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:11 am
Angela Merkel speaking Russian/English 3 Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:19 am
Record, rip, convert, mix, burn, copy to mobiles 0 Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:47 am
Share : how to convert DVD and video to iPhone,iPod,Zune,PSP 0 Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:41 am
Beleaguered 4 Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:43 pm
Does English really need the s-suffix?  (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:00 pm
Does this make sense? 3 Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:37 pm
Burning vs aflame 2 Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:20 pm
This has to do with agriculture, help plz! 5 Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:56 pm
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