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How to improve your English skills with drilling techniques
Drilling in language learning simply means listening to a language model and repeating what is heard. The language model (or structure or pattern) can be provided by a teacher, a friend, another student or a recording. Even though modern language learning tends to be...
Order of adjectives
A few years ago, a tweet addressing word order went viral. It is rare to see Grammar resonate with so many people, so let us have a look at what was going on: Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: pic.twitter.com/Ex0Ui9oBSL — Matthew...
Vowels 3 – r-colored vowels – definition and examples and explications
Another area of pronunciation in which varieties of English can be distinguished is in the phoneme /r/. This is not only true between nations like Great Britain and the U.S., but also within them. Within the United Kingdom the pronunciation of /r/, or rather, how it...
Vowels 3 – Diphthongs – definition and examples and explications
Before you tackle this lesson, take some time to do a bit of research. See what you can find out about varieties of English spoken in North America. This needn’t be a vast amount of in-depth research, just spend about 20-30 minutes learning about what...
Weekly Poem: Haikus
Brittanica.com defines a haiku as ‘unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The haiku first emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century, as a terse reaction to elaborate poetic...Gefördert vom
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