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Articles about "Language"The American English Accent:: The Voiced And Unvoiced
The voiced and unvoiced consonants
In this section we will try to clarify the difference between the voiced consonants and the unvoiced consonants.
If you want to master E ...
Italian: Speaking The Language of Love
One of the most romantic languages on earth is Italian.
There is indescribable quality to the Italian language that makes it sound so florid and expressive – two qualities that lend its ...
Writing Japanese: What is Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana
The Japanese language is so fascinating. The tonal qualities of the language is quite unique and the inherent politeness of ...
Why Should People Learn Spanish?
I remember the first time I visited Mexico. It is a beautiful country. I was young so naturally, I went with my parents. None of us could speak more than a few words of Spanish. We had a vague idea ...
All About French- Speaking Countries
The French Language
Roughly around 200 million people around the world speak French. This number includes people who speak French as a native language, as a second language and students ...
What Is The Best Way To Learn A Foreign Language?
Studies have shown that how you learn a foreign language impacts whether or not you will actually follow through it. Obviously, if you get bored before you’ve put in the required time and effort, yo ...
Be Thankful For Grammar
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm thankful for grammar. You heard me right. I'm thankful for grammar. I guess maybe I should say that I'm thankful that I learned grammar. It's really true. ...
Why Learn Swedish?
Aside from the possibility of living in Sweden or Finland (where Swedish is an official second language), or meeting someone important who knows to speak only in Dutch language is spoken by more than 22 million people, most of them in countries like the Netherlands and Belgium. Given ...
Make English Friends
Try to locate a person in your school or area that is a fluent speaker of English, and ask that individual to meet with you on a regular basis in order to practice your English. You will have the ch ...
Practice Phrasal Verbs
An idiom is a phrase that has a meaning different from the meanings of its parts. Idiomatic expressions are commonly used and understood slang phrases. An essential kind of idiom is the phrasal verb ...
Understand Slang
Certain common expressions that American English speakers use frequently may not be found in your English dictionary, but they are essential to understand. Below is an example of a slang expression. ...
Practice Vocabulary
"Changing" money Scene: You are in a store, and you want to play the video game there . You need coins to operate the game, but you only have a ten dollar bill. You desire to ask the owner of the ...
Less vs. Fewer
Dear ESL Student,
Less and fewer have the same basic meaning in a sentence, but they modify different noun forms. The general rule is to use "less" before singular nouns, and use "fe ...
Understand American Money
Dear ESL Student,
The American money system is logical and very easy to use. It is based on the dollar ($1.00), on which all cash and coins are dependent. There are 100 cents in a dolla ...
Take English Quizzes
Dear ESL Student,
Native English speakers make mistakes too! These sentences were modified from national magazines and advertisements in the USA. Can you find the grammatical error in e ...
By degrees: The different German dialects
German is one of the most popular languages in the world. In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records has listed the German l ...
Don't Forget A Spanish Dictionary!
On a recent tour through Mexico and Central America, I realized that I had forgotten many things for my journey. For some reason I made it out of my house without my toothbrush and toothpaste, but f ...
Spanish Love: Spanish Poets and Their Spanish Poems
Love and its attendant passions has been the favorite subject of Spanish poetry since the time of the troubadours, medieval poets who earned their keep by singing for the people at the village squar ...
Comparing the Usage of the words “Doom” and “Fate”
One of the synonyms of doom is fate and fate as a synonym of doom. What I am going to call attention to is the usage of these terms. Since the definition of doom based on the Meriam Webster Dictiona ...
Learning Foreign Languages Online
In today’s competitive and evolving world, the importance of education has never been more important. People are now more aware of the continuing need to improve one’s self through adult learning. D ...
How To Learn Spanish Easily
With the popularity of the Internet has come the opportunity to partake in a plethora of new services. Who would have imagined that you could, for example, learn the fundamentals of the Spanish lang ...
En101 Makes Learning English Online Easy, Affordable and Rewarding
Ever noticed how many opportunities have you passed up because you could not understand/speak/write English? How many times you have apologized for not knowing English?
Learning English ...
Is Chinese Really So Hard to Learn as a Second Language?
Many foreign friends of mine are complaining to me that Chinese is so hard to learn: the ridiculously difficult writing system, the confusing four tones, the extensive system of measure words, so a ...
Reference Information to Ease Your Chinese Character Study
Chinese characters seem the most difficult part for foreign friends to learn the Chinese language. In my opinion, the main reason for that may be Chinese characters look very different from their qu ...
It Cannot Hurt To Learn Chinese
It today's day and age, many people are learning a second, third or even forth language. There are probably many reasons to learn languages other than your own. Some people just love learning about ...
A Latin Dictionary Saved My Life
In many ways, I have never been much of a student, especially if you are talking about being a student within the confines of a classroom. I've always loved learning, don't get me wrong, but get m ...
Not A Day Without A Dictionary
There are many small ways to make your days a little more full and to take every opportunity for learning. As a teacher, I am passionate about seeing people grasp what a privilege and a blessing tha ...
English Grammar Really Does Matter
Whether we are talking about a five year old that is about to start learning to read or whether we are talking about a thirty year old woman who is attempting to write a thesis for her master's deg ...
Four Reasons To Learn German
What A German Language School Can Do For You
German is not always the first choice for people looking to learn a foreign language. But maybe it should be. German is spoken by more than ...
Orlando Schools Aim To Improve Language Program
Orlando Schools Administrators Visit China
Several Orlando School administrators will be among the nearly four hundred curriculum developers and administrators from around the nation to ...
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