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Word context clues are an effective way to build your vocabulary. Context is the sentence or phrase in which the word is found, and understanding the sentence’s general meaning helps to [...]

If you’ve been following anything that’s happened in the last six months then you know that in addition to the rise of COVID-19, travel restrictions, social distancing and the use of [...]

In today’s ever increasingly competitive world it is important to make yourself stand out! One way to do that is to demonstrate an aptitude for learning and acquiring new skills. TALK [...]

Vietnamese ESL students share many of the same pronunciation errors that English language students from elsewhere do—consonant clusters, long and short vowel sounds, and swapping one consonant [...]

What could be the most used word in the English language? It appears fifteen times in this blog post alone. It is used about 5% of the time. One scholar says its usage is ‘miles above [...]

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, [...]

The way sounds are organized in Korean is very different from that of English–technically this is called the “phonology” of a language.  These phonological differences affect Korean [...]

Homonyms (also called homophones) are words that sound like one another but have different meanings and sometimes slightly different spellings. Some homonyms, however, are spelled the same, like [...]

Though many Turkish speakers study English beginning in primary school, the language teaching methods often rely on rote memorization; students are focused on drilling grammar rules at the [...]

It’s amazing to think that every single word in the English language belongs to one of just eight word groups or parts of speech. A few of these parts of speech are easy to remember – nouns, [...]