Are you having trouble pronouncing adjectives ending in -ed in English? Look no further as this blog will help pronounce them perfectly from now on! The pronunciation rule There is in fact a rule in English pronunciation to help you…
“No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland Winter is here and it can feel a very long time before spring comes again. So why not take the time in the cold months to get to…
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. – Roald Dahl In our weekly Intrepid English Reading Club we’re looking at the short stories written by Roald Dahl.…
Today’s blog is the second in our mini series about ‘false friends’ in the English and French languages to help our French speakers. A ‘false friend’ is a word that looks the same in two languages but actually has a…
Do you know the meaning of hunky-dory? Flabbergasted? Kerfuffle? No? Let me enlighten you! There are some incredible words in English that you will rarely come across so in this blog I will be sharing my favourite ones in the…
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” – a common English proverb from the 19th century. In this post I am going to explain some idioms that I use regularly as I thought it would be super useful for…
The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’. – Alfred Brenel English spelling and its pronunciation is not exactly easy for learners of English. When we add the fact that there are many letters in English words…
“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation.” – Gerard Nolst Trenité, The Chaos Any English language learner knows that often spelling isn’t very helpful if we want to know how to correctly pronounce a word. Take for example these four…
That is the question! There are two different ways of pronouncing the definite article ‘the’. Normally, we pronounce the with a short sound (like /ðə/ (“thuh,” rhymes with “duh.”) However, when the comes before a vowel sound, we pronounce it…
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice!” John Templeton The word ‘nice’ is possibly one of the most common and most frequently used words in English, and to be perfectly honest it’s one of my…