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Why speaking English with a good accent matters!
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It’s a confidence game that’s why. You can’t afford to sound weak, timid, confused, incoherent, nervous, anxious or funny (as in weird). You sound funny when you speak fluent yet not fully intelligible English. Some Indians are a good example of that. They speak fluently and confidently but boy do they sound hilarious or…
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English for beginners: Baby language?
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Hello baby, hello my baby, hello hello my special baby, how are you this morning? How are you, how are you, how are you this morning? How are you beautiful? Hungry sweetie? Awww, poor baby, hungry hungry you are! Aren’t you? okay, let’s change your nappy first shall we? does that make you happy?…
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Being great at English: How bad do you want it?
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Not only English, being great at anything pretty much all comes down to how bad you want it. You’ve got to want it! You’ve got to want it so bad that you wouldn’t want to exist in this world without it. It’s the food you eat, the water you drink and the air your…
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You’re done memorizing the dictionary, now what?
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Isn’t that what many learners do? Literally study and memorize the dictionary from cover to cover? And how many learners study every grammar rule in the textbook? Some learners seriously know about the structure of the language more than many teachers. I have also met so many of them who are extremely fluent, and…
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How adult learners of English go wrong!
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Language is a complex set of utterances or sounds humans use to decode each others’ messages. Allow me to use the following metaphor: You turn your PC on, it asks you to log in. You punch in your password, a series of letters and numbers which the computer has to recognize and read to…
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What English accent should I learn to speak with?
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There is no such thing as a better accent. It really depends on where you live, and who you speak English with. What accent would be easier for THEM to hear? We all want to be understood. We want to be accepted by the society or entourage we live in. Having said that, I know for…