When you are speaking English the words you stress can change the underlying meaning a sentence. Even simple sentences can have many levels of meaning based on the word you stress. This feature provides examples and an exercise to help you improve your pronunciation through correct word stress.
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I think it all depends on how you want to use English. If you are interested in using English to speak with friends who use idioms, then, yes, learning idioms is advisable. If you are learning English for business purposes, then maybe it’s not a good use of your study time.
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Your website is great, however I have a comment on stressed words.
I speak English and 4 other European languages and the changes in meaning based on stress are exactly the same in all these languages. So this is not a topic that needs to be covered with English Language learners.
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In the words i recibed before I could listen and dowmlod the soun of it. Now I can´t
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