Roommates

For TALK international students studying abroad, this is an exciting time.  You meet new people, and maybe even share your living space with a room-mate who comes from another country.  While you [...]

Alliteration

Alliteration is a poetic technique in which the initial consonant sounds of words are repeated in close succession. To put it more simply: alliteration is when the beginning sounds of words [...]

American stereotypes

For TALK students traveling abroad to study in the USA, you may already have a generalized idea of what you may expect of Americans as you have seen the movies, read about the celebrities, [...]

toward and towards

Toward and towards – does it matter which word you use? Though there is a perception that the words, toward and towards, which are both prepositions, have distinctive and separate usages, [...]

American greetings

TALK students who studying abroad will probably find at the start of their stay that the new culture and language is a little daunting. Let’s begin at the beginning, and that means the American [...]