As you become more familiar with speaking, reading and writing English, you discover that the most common phrases in use are so deeply embedded in  the language that few people stop to think [...]

Karma is a word that we all know well. In fact, we use it a lot!   Karma is a way of looking at the world that seems to make total sense.  And it’s a word for which there is no direct [...]

What makes English hard to learn for non-native speakers of English is that the language is full of double meanings. The pun is about wordplay that exploits those double meanings. Wikipedia [...]

As if learning to speak  English is not enough.  But these fabulous  words deserve a place in everybody’s vocabulary! These are untranslatable words in English, there is not phrasal or word [...]

Even if you do not know what adverbials – or adverbial phrases – are, you are using them constantly in conversation. Adverbs and adverbials are similar but not the same.  An adverbial [...]

Everyone has an accent – it might be a mother-tongue accent or, as with ESL students, a second language accent. An accent is the way that you say words.An accent is how an individual pronounces a [...]

Even though he is passionate about Shakespeare, New York theater producer Ross Williams understands very well that 400-year- old English is difficult even for English speakers to decipher. But he [...]

When you first arrived in the United States to study English abroad, did you find yourself waiting for what was going to follow the first time you heard the word “Hey!”  ? And you [...]

Like many Americans, we are often unaware of our own accent. But, everyone has an accent – it might be your mother-tongue accent or a second language accent. Accent is how an individual

  The thing about an accent is that it will change over time, as new cultural and population shifts occur and with time passing.  In looking at the causes of the differences between American [...]