Stop Abusing Our Language

Speak Better English, Mistakes Revealed and Corrected

De: Clive Seigal

Narrado por: Clive Seigal

Duración: 1 h y 36 m

Resumen del Editor

Now you can listen and learn how English should be spoken.

Interviews. Debates. Discussions

Can you speak with complete confidence?

Perhaps, you have a vital job interview coming up. You've done your homework, prepared carefully, and know all the answers.

But can you deliver this knowledge effectively? Or will your grammar let you down?

Don't despair: Correct speech awareness can overcome fear of failure.

This book will enable you to:

• Recognize faulty grammar and be sure to avoid it
• Avoid common blunders
• Speak to anyone with confidence

Even if you've previously been nervous when confronted with pressure situations, the knowledge gained in Stop Abusing Our Language will give you the confidence to speak out with authority.

You will be able to concentrate on what to say, not how to say it. Listen to the contents of this book and hear how to speak decent English.

Impress your listeners with the quality of your speech. Click the “buy now” button.

©2020 Clive Seigal (P)2021 Clive Seigal

Erudite and well narrated.

Despite the confrontational title, this book was a delight to read. As a learner of foreign languages I found it fascinating to delve deeper into English grammar and recognise many of the author's examples in common speech around the U.K. I also picked up on a few things I didn't know. That none is a contraction of "not one" was a surprise to me albeit in retrospect I suppose it could be guessed as for example alone is a contraction of "all one". These kinds of contractions are especially interesting as many of them carry across language groups meaning they all existed in some preceding language before English existed. For example "all one" - alone and "all ein" - allein in German. Or in this case Non from "not one" and in Spanish ninguno from "ni uno" that has the same literal meaning. Which ancient language is the root of this original contraction?

I suspect the author is in fact fighting a losing battle as languages change and evolve over time. I imagine the Anglo-Saxon elders also despaired at Roman and Norman "immigrants" speaking broken Old English and the loss of the Old English case system, however if that hadn't happened we would not now speak modern English. Still this book is insightful, interesting, thought provoking and thoroughly enjoyable. Highly recommended to anyone interested in languages and grammar.