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Hi,I live and work in London and I would really like to improve my spoken english. In particular pronunciation, words linking and so forth. The problem is I work full time and every interesting C&P course I found is during the day.Do you know of any "good" C&P course in London for full-time workers ?Thanks in advanceCiro

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[nq:1]Hi, I live and work in London and I would really like to improve my spoken english. In particular pronunciation, ... I found is during the day. Do you know of any "good" C&P course in London for full-time workers ?[/nq]
You could try listening to BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. Admittedly, you wouldn't get the speech practice but at least you would be listening to pretty good pronunciation, grammar and sentence construction most of the time, and it would be free.

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Thanks, I already do that. I'm looking for a course :-)

Ciro

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[nq:1]I live and work in London and I would really like to improve my spoken english. In particular pronunciation, words linking and so forth. The problem is I work full time and every interesting C&P course I found is during the day.[/nq]
Make some native friends and invite them home for a meal and a drink. Do it regularly. Let the conversation drift like a newsgroup.

Paul Burke

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[nq:2]I live and work in London and I would really ... every interesting C&P course I found is during the day.[/nq]
[nq:1]Make some native friends and invite them home for a meal and a drink. Do it regularly. Let the conversation drift like a newsgroup.[/nq]
...and end up speaking estuary English, or Mockney, sort of, innit, like.

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At 08:53:57 on Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Nick Wagg (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:2]Make some native friends and invite them home for a meal and a drink. Do it regularly. Let the conversation drift like a newsgroup.[/nq]
[nq:1]...and end up speaking estuary English, or Mockney, sort of, innit, like.[/nq]
OK, so Ciro would be better off not learning from friends from the local pub, perhaps - or even the workplace. But how about a reading group?

Ciro, reading groups are very popular in this country at the moment. About 10 to 20 people form a group, and each month they read a particular book (which you can either buy, or borrow from the library) and then they get together one evening to discuss the book together. Such people are more likely to speak reasonably good English (when attending the group, at least!) than the average person in the street. You can find out where your nearest reading group is by asking in your local public library.
In such a group, you could also easily ask questions like "Why has the author used these particular words?" or "I don't know this word, how should it be pronounced?" and get sensible answers, whereas if you ask questions like that with friends in the pub the answers may not be so helpful!

Molly Mockford
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