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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Late night host Conan O’ Brien remarked on the recent news that scientists have discovered the reason that women talk way more than men. Says our funny (male) host:  ‘They actually [...]

Let’s take another step along the way to mastery of the English language.  There is this interesting category of words called contronyms.  These are terms that, depending on context, can [...]