Learning prepositions in any language is difficult, and English is no exception. So many students struggle with knowing how to use the prepositions within and without. We have lots of prepositions, and some of them seem to be used in strange ways. They can be pretty hard to know how to use. Today, we will […]
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Are you struggling in your English class trying to remember when to use this and that or these and those? You’re not alone. Many English learners make this mistake in their writing and speaking. This guide will help you understand exactly when to use each of these words correctly, so you can speak and write
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Hi everyone! Today’s post isn’t about English grammar, pronunciation, writing, or anything like that. Instead, it’s about a friend of mine. He just started a blog himself. My friend is a polyglot named Vijay – someone who speaks many different languages. He knows English, Malayalam, Farsi, French, Mandarin, and way too many to count honestly.
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Learning any language isn’t easy, but English has a difficulty that many other languages don’t have: it has a lot of words. According to the Oxford dictionary, there are over 170,000 words in use in English right now! We have words as simple as “house” to words as complicated as “antidisestablishmentarianism.” How do English speakers
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If you checked out my post on your vs you’re, you’d know that there are actually many parts of English writing that are difficult for both English learners and native English speakers. Today, I’ll be teaching you about a similarly difficult topic: the difference between its vs it’s. It’s actually very east to learn! Let’s
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In English, we have many difficult grammar and spelling rules. We have many irregular verbs, random singular and plural pairs like goose/geese and moose/moose, and we have the hated there, they’re, and their. Some of these rules confuse native English speakers, too! Today, we’ll talk about one of them: your vs. you’re. When do you
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In today’s lesson, we’re going to talk about the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol /ʌ/. This vowel is sometimes referred to as a “caret” or “hat” because of its shape – it kind of looks like a hat. It also kind of looks like an upside down v. However, it sounds nothing like the /v/
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Speaking English with native-like pronunciation is many students’ goal. English is a difficult language for many students. A lot of them struggle with the pronunciation for a number of reasons. English spelling causes problems for some students, because many words are spelled differently than they are pronounced. Here are some examples: General American English pronunciation
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Today’s lesson will cover the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) sound /æ/. This sound is nicknamed “ash,” and it is not found in many languages. It exists in Finnish, Arabic, Persian, and some other languages. It is also in the dialects of some speakers of Turkish and Swedish. For speakers of these languages, this sound will
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“What’s up?” is one of those English phrases that is considered to be slang, but is used by almost everybody. You hear it all the time in English speaking media. There used to be an old beer commercial in the United States where two men who are friends talk to each other on the phone
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