10 common American Slang words that you’ll need to know when you get here! The American language is so wonderfully rich and diverse. Slang words – informal words and phrases more [...]

Last year we noted the rise of the use of certain words like ‘unprecedented’ because of the unique challenges of the pandemic. We weren’t the only ones. Oxford Languages (part of Oxford [...]

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 [...]

Of course, when you come to the United States to learn to speak English, other things are bound to happen.  You’re going to be meeting lots of new people, and have opportunities to meet the [...]

Becoming fluent in a language also requires a degree of cultural competence.  So you have mastered those aspects of the spoken and written language – things like grammar, pronunciation, the odd [...]

There is a grammatically correct way to write numbers in the English language.  When you write numbers or refer to numbers in your written text, you need to know whether you can use numeric [...]

The number of  trending slang terms which have been created by the digital culture and millennial lifestyle is amazing. New words, acronyms and expressions form this latest wave of the English [...]

Punctuation for titles can appear confusing because titles appear to be punctuated in any of three ways.  When you are writing about other people’s books, mentioning a movie, quoting a poem, you [...]

If you want to communicate with the millennial generation you need to understand the relationship between millennial values and language.  Millennial jargon is very influenced by what they [...]

When we talk about biased language we are also discussing sexism, which is just another form of bias.  Biased language is important to understand especially when you are part of another culture [...]