English by the Nature Method, Chapter 5, The Body

English by the Nature Method, by Arthur M. Jensen
as read by Luke Amadeus Ranieri

- in General American pronunciation -

One of its best features is the pronunciation guide, written in a version of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which is designed as a broad transcription of the UK's Received Pronunciation. I however speak in General American pronunciation natively, in an accent that any native English speaker in the world will understand without trouble.

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[jp-fx]

The style of this book is very similar to lingua latina. Perhaps my way into the English language wouldn't have been so difficult if I had found this book earlier.

[ElisangelaAraujo]

Please keep making these videos! They are fantastic!!

[rodolfoviegas]

In this chapter the most complex thing(for me) in English Language appears: the prepositions. It is very difficult to understand which of the cases you need to apply them. For a non-native speaker, all the times we need to think what preposition is the correct at (or in?) phrase.

[pedesromanus]

Do you know about any answer key to the exercises?

[kaltashwawa]

I don't think I would ever say or have ever read someone asking a questions like "how many fingers has Helen". Actually, it sounds wrong to me and would definitely stick out in normal conversation. I asked a few friends (both English and Canadian) and they all agreed that they have never heard anyone ask a question like that unless English wasn't their native language.

They all said that something like "How many fingers does Helen have?" or "How many fingers has Helen got?" would be much more natural.


Why would they write it like this? Is it because they don't want to introduce auxiliary verbs this early? Is it some weird received pronunciation thing that nobody actually says except as an affectation?