Blog di Alessandro Fantauzzi

Should I speak like a native? Questioning native speaking as the benchmark for language learning

Pubblicato in dic 20211

  "I wish I spoke more like a native!" "What should I do to sound more like a native?" "Five tricks to sound more like a native speaker!" "Avoid these mistakes if you want to sound more similar to a native." How many times have we come across people studying a foreign language voicing their desire to sound more native speaker-like? How often have we found ourselves confessing the same ambition for attaining such longed-after standard? Not t...

Should we study a foreign language to speak like native speakers?

Pubblicato in dic 20211

How many times have we come across people studying a foreign language voicing their desire to sound more native speaker-like? How often have we found ourselves confessing the same ambition for attaining such longed-after standard? Not to mention the galaxy of videos on the internet purporting to be teaching you the ultimate tricks, tips or secrets to sound more like a native. {{btn_search_tutor}} Long story short: it seems that when it comes to ...

I can't get my head around it! - Present Perfect and Past Simple

Pubblicato in gen 2022

Among the many challenges that a student is bound to come across in the fatiguing and arduous (rewarding though) process of learning English, grasping the difference between the present perfect and the past simple (or perfect and past tenses in general) is often considered one of the most difficult. {{btn_custom: Impara l'inglese: link_search_tutor_subcat_1}} The rules governing the differential use of these tenses appear to many almost unfathom...