Learning English as a second language can open up new opportunities in your life from career changes to traveling the world. ESL teaching methods are optimized by new teaching technologies such [...]

When you choose to study English as a second language you will expect to emerge from your study being able to read, speak and write English with a certain amount of confidence and ability. There [...]

Arabic is spoken in many countries so there are a wide variety of dialects, 4 in Saudi Arabia alone—Gulf, Hijazi, Najdi, and the Standard Arabian dialect.  English pronunciation problems can vary [...]

China and America have a few things in common in that they’re both large countries with a wide variety of dialects and a deep sense of patriotism.  The languages, however, are another story. The [...]

French ESL students have a leg up when it comes to learning English and proper English pronunciation, although there are some common mistakes that are made.  Many English language words are [...]

The linguistic roots of Japanese are debated to this day, some scholars say Altaic, others think it’s related to Turkish.  Wherever the truth may lie, it’s a long way from America. English isn’t [...]

It’s compulsory for Russian students to study a foreign language beginning as early as the second or fifth grade.  The language courses most often taken are, English, German, and French.  Russian [...]

Turkish is a subject + object + verb patterned language, but English is subject + verb + object patterned language.  This difference in word order is one of the biggest hurdles Turkish students [...]

The most straightforward definition of grammar is: A set of actual or presumed prescriptive notions about correct use of a language. Oxford English Dictionary I especially like the phrase, [...]

Portuguese and English sentence structure is similar, so the ESL grammar mistakes made by Portuguese students don’t often interfere with a student’s ability to be understood when speaking [...]