von Nadja Wostiera | Montag, September 17, 2018 | Practice, Practice Vocabulary
In another article we inform you about collocations. This exercise focuses on a particular collocation type, the adverb-verb collocations. In this case the adverb functions as an itensifier. These emphatic expressions are used in formal English in...
von Nadja Wostiera | Montag, September 17, 2018 | Learn, Learn Vocabulary, Learning strategies
Knowing about collocations can improve your English skills as they make you sound more native and by using them the way you express becomes more natural. A collocation is the frequently used combination of a word or phrase with another word or phrase that sounds...
von Öykü Coskun | Montag, Juli 16, 2018 | Get informed
There are different ways of acquiring an extensive vocabulary, and one of them is working with corpora and word lists to either discover words in their possible syntactical contexts or see what other words belong to the same word family. Here are some of the online...
von Öykü Coskun | Montag, Juli 16, 2018 | Get informed
There are various online (and printed) monolingual as well as bilingual dictionaries that might be helpful for you, but often you are faced with the problem that you don’t know which ones are reliable reference works and which ones are not. Especially if you want to...
von Susannah | Dienstag, Juni 19, 2018 | Learn, Learning strategies
Listening may seem like the easiest of the four language skills areas to master, but it comes with its own pitfalls and difficulties. One thing to do is to be aware of the essential steps of listening comprehension. This can help you through areas that may cause you...