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What’s the link between music and English vocabulary acquisition? There are many ways that you can learn English as a second language, from classroom settings, to ESL games, to watching English [...]

English grammar contains 5 vowels – a, e, i, o, and u – and long and short vowels sounds.  Actually, each vowel can have many different sounds.  Learning which vowel sound to use in English [...]

Once the basic elements of English grammar are more or less understood, the focus of the English language learner typically turns to acquiring  vocabulary words . Vocabulary is a big part of [...]

In the internet age, any attempt to learn English the way it is actually spoken includes learning vocabulary words  that have been created purely because we are in a new digitized age, where we [...]

What are prepositions in English grammar?   The word “preposition” comes from the Latin word praeponere (put before.)  Prepositions show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and other [...]

The word the is the most frequently used word in the English language. You may think that the size of these words— a, an, and the – 3 letters at most—make them bit part players when it comes to [...]

A complete sentence is made up of sentence fragments.  By themselves, sentence fragments do not express complete thoughts, as they are missing important information that goes toward making the [...]

These common English grammar mistakes are made by both native speakers and English language learners.  As a non-native speaker, you may well have seen signage, heard English news presenters or [...]

Common English grammar mistakes that native Japanese speakers face when learning English as a second language are typically of several different kinds. Some of those errors arise from the [...]

Learning English as a second language presents all sorts of challenges but the most persistent tend to be overcoming the interference of the learner’s native language. The most persistent errors [...]