One of the most important goals for any ESL student is to gain conversational skills. It’s crucial that you give your students plenty of opportunity to converse with each other, but sometimes it can be challenging to think of new topics for your students to practice speaking. Here are six fun speaking topics for your […]
English is one of the most widely-known and used languages in the world, so why wouldn’t you want to learn it? Luckily, in this modern age, finding ways to learn and improve on your English skills daily and consistently is easy, due to the progression of mobile applications, which we use everyday and are constantly […]
Speaking English as a second language can help you increase your income by up to 20%, according to Albert Saiz, professor of economics at MIT. But before English can help you advance your career, you are going to need a good resume. Do you want to improve your business writing and write a more powerful […]
Perfect pronunciation is one of the last major challenges that stands between you and fluent spoken English. It can also be one of the hardest, with many students taking years to master it. Some simply don’t bother or fool themselves into thinking it’s not as important as perfect grammar – but don’t forget, a grammatically […]
English might be the most common second language on the planet, but that certainly doesn’t mean that it’s the easiest language to learn. The maddening number of homonyms in English is enough to create confusion in anyone, learner and native speaker alike. The Internet crime of mixing up “your” and “you’re”, which many seem to […]
2015 was a ground-breaking year. At least in the very narrow field of gender-neutral pronouns. It was 2015 that the American Dialect society picked the singular “they” as their word of the year. The use of “they” to denote a single person, without specifying their gender (as “he” and “she” do), has become under increased […]
Not using double negatives in English is one of those rules that everyone who speaks the language has heard of. While it’s not (yet) destined to the scrapheap of outdated grammar rules, for many, not using a double negative seems almost as silly as declaring “they” a plural-only pronoun. After all, when you hear someone […]
We never seem to have time these days, especially time to learn a new language. That’s why it’s important to take advantage of the few free moments in your day to improve your language skills. And what better way to learn English than listening to a great podcast during your commute, evening walk, or when […]
Over the last couple of decades, the Internet has slowly seeped into and transformed the everyday life of about half of the population on this planet. Its pervasive influence reaches also into the world of language. Understandably, such widespread technology reroutes some of language into its domain, much like its predecessors did. Of course, the […]
In the previous parts of this series, we’ve looked at the history of the idea that your mother tongue guides your everyday thoughts and how well this theory is grounded in science. While there is evidence that your native language can have minor effects on your perception of the world, they are nowhere near as […]
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