Pergunte ao professor Steve Ford

Hi Steve,

I’m Brazilian and I live and work in Amsterdam. I use English every day in my work and I’m a sales rep. in a multinational. I have problem sometimes when talking in the phone with people from the US/UK. I tried many different kinds of course to make my pronounciaition get better, but I still feel it’s not good. Do you have suggestions how to improve my pronounciatiuon?

Thanks,

Fabio ( São Paulo/Amsterdam)

Hey Steve!

I would like to know in which cases I use these relatives pronouns: “who”,”which”, “that”and “whose”. Is there a specific rule to use them?

Thanks Steve.

Bye

Hello Steve

I would like to know why in English in a sentence like ” Eu gosto daqui” we have to say “I like IT here” and not “I like here”.
Why do we use “it” ?

Thank you very much,
I’m a big fan.

Suelen, Brazil

Hi! Dear Steve, I very much thought of the how interesting your aid is for all the members in this page, first, again i ‘d like to congratulate you for this wonderful work you have been doing for all of us.
I enjoyed a lot these false friends, or false meanings into english.
I must to admit, that the most of them, i didn’t figureout that they existed and now i have a good overlook about them.
Well! In a nut shel, i would like to ask you, which countries are they used? I mean, i guess, the most of them are used in the USA, Canada and England, but i need to know about false meanings, or false friends and the countries that they are used, for instance, these ones are used in England and these other ones are used in the United States, or whether the most of them are used in both countries.
Thank you for giving me an answer.
Good Job!
Take care!

Hello professor Steve!
i would like to ask about the meaning of the expressions: to grab a spoon and to beat around the bush.
thanks a lot

Olá, Sr. Steve,

Minha pergunta é : Como fazer para interpretar um texto longo, já que teremos que escrever só o resumo dele. Obs.: O texto é para listening activities, logo não li e só ouvi e preciso resumí-lo. Existe alguma regra boa para listening!!!

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Hi .. I love English teacher and I already know to sing songs from Shakira in English. Look, I love all your work, you work with English e. .. look: Because I love you too (English) help me with some words! I know I use the Google translator and I love it! Thank you for reading this message, even if not read, I’ll send it again. .. Thanks for understanding e. .. Please do not just give tips, but help me to correctly pronounce the palavras.Assim, sure I know everything … look at inglês.E: Listen to me, see?? Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you it again!

Hi there teacher Steve!

Luckily enough, I happened to find this website during a quick search on the internet. I simply took to it and started reading most of its content compulsively since then…

My question has to do with pronunciation of the contraction “won’t”. For most natives it sounds as if I’m saying “want”. I’d like to know if this is a feature of Brazilian speakers of English and if there is a tip of pronunciation for me to work on (in addition to saying “will not”, which is what I’ve been doing as a palliative measure :)

Keep up the good work!

Thanks in advance,
Carol

Gostaria que o Steve falasse um pouco do verbo “wish”. Fora isso, minhas dúvidas já são esclarecidas aqui no fórum.

she’s not like fruit
she doesn’t fruit … what difference?
when i use an and a?
when i gonna use and go
Hello, I am self-taught student. thanks for help

Muito boas sua dicas!

Olá Steve,

Gostaria de saber quando usar thereby e therefore ?

Outra dúvida é quando vou utilizar a palavra “also”, devo utilizar antes ou depois dos verbos auxiliares can/could ?

ex:
You can/could also…
or
You also can/could…

Muito obrigado!
Outra coisa: estou pensando em ir pro Canadá para estudar ingles…tem alguma dica ou recomendação de escolas em Toronto ou Vancouver?

Marcelo

I’d like to know when I can use “Whom” e “Whose”. I couldn’t find at forum

Quando devo usar of e o apóstrofo (´) ?

buenos dia,
aprendi espano és hore de aprende ingres,entou indo muito benes nes aulas.
adios

Hello Steve, How’s it going?

what’s the better method, “listen and repeat” or “listen and answer”?

cheers!