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  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 [...]

    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 [...]

We have all heard about Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States.  The biggest shopping day of the year, lines for miles for the best bargains in the stores … [...]

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and that means that it’s time to give thanks for the multitude of blessings in our lives. We’re pretty good about showing gratitude for all the usual [...]

Many of our TALK English students may be a bit confused when they try talking football with an American and they find that they are on a subject they never knew they were interested in. [...]

An article about the origin of language, by eminent psychologist, Dr. George Boeree, introduces this vast subject very delightfully and his words are worth passing on. As Dr. Boeree states, [...]

When studying English abroad, watching movies in English is a good and enjoyable way to absorb not only American or English culture, but to also pick up conversational English.  But what movies [...]

Problems with pronunciation come up very often when you are sitting in a restaurant or need to find something at a store – all the strange exotic words for food that you cannot pronounce [...]

Remember that, with all those parties and then after-parties and parties all over town, Halloween can run on for what seems like weeks, so you need to have a few easy Halloween outfits on hand! [...]

Living in a foreign country is a great way to learn the language that is spoken there, but it doesn’t guarantee that you will learn that language. To learn as much of the language as possible [...]