With Twitter followed twitter shorthand as a matter of necessity. The most famous symbol associated with Twitter is of course the hash tag, which signals the specific issue or topic that the [...]

Internet and text language is made up of acronyms, abbreviations, made-up words and texting symbols emoticons and other symbols that express ideas. Many texting symbols for communication both in [...]

In our blog about online dictionaries we listed many great sources of texting terms,  and text and chat room acronyms. The internet and cell phone has spawned an entirely new language, with [...]

Internet slang lies somewhere between words that are trending among Gen-Y-ers and other digital citizens and those that have crept into dictionaries as new words. The number of new words, [...]

The best online dictionaries are not the only kind of dictionary that an ESL learner needs while studying English. To have one actual print-form dictionary constantly on hand, that you place in [...]

Dialects, like accents, have a role to play in English as a second language courses because they have to do with pronunciation in a tongue which is not native to the learner. A dialect is usually [...]

Phonetics are an important part of learning English  Many accent reduction course involve comprehensive software and training materials that help people reduce their accents and improve [...]

There are many courses for accent reduction.  They are both online and offered by colleges.  Accent reduction does not mean eliminating accents entirely.  What an accent reduction course will [...]

As an ESL speaker, you can have a strong accent and still be perfectly well understood.  It is not the accent that you need to address but rather you need to practice and try to perfect the [...]

Do accents matter?  How important is an accent when you are speaking a language which is not your native tongue? Should you change your accent? Everyone has an accent – it might be a [...]