New Year’s resolutions – from sensible to sweet.
It’s nearly 2014, and we are busy thinking up resolutions for the New Year that will help us transform ourselves into something better, thinner, happier, smarter . Perhaps the most [...]
American Christmas Gift Ideas
Christmas time! The time for giving, and we express that spirit by giving to loved ones. It is difficult to come up with unique gift ideas . Like many who are celebrating the season far from [...]
Cool Collective Nouns
Learning English can be fun, especially when it comes to collective nouns! These are nouns that stand for a collection of people, animals or things, that can be referred to as one entity. The [...]
Wacky Christmas Wish Lists
These next days up to Christmas, as we are headed to the mall to splash out on nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, armed with wish-lists from the younger members of family and friends, the [...]
Pronunciation Problems
How do you feel about your pronunciation? This is not always because of your accent, but rather how certain English words are spelled. The spelling does not indicate clearly how they should be [...]
Talking Talk
Ahhhh! So many ways to talk the (English) talk! The English language is constantly being populated with new words. No word demonstrates this more than the word ‘talk.’ From Olde [...]
Cyber- talk
Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving, and associated with crowds of bargain hunters streaming to the malls of America, may just be seeing its last hoorah as Cyber Monday [...]
