Pronunciation and Process
Learning vocabulary is a tedious, but necessary, part of learning a language. The belief used to be that just 3000 words was all you needed to adequately understand most things you read in English. But recent research suggests that the number is closer to 8000, with some estimates going as high […]
One of the worst things that a student can believe is that learning is a passive process – that being taught is the same as learning, and that the main thing that differentiates a student who learns little and a student who learns a lot is the skill of the […]
Many people use the words “practice”, “exercise”, and “train” as if they were the same. For many people that’s OK because the difference is not important in their lives. However, understanding the difference is very important for people learning a new language. Learning a new language is a lot like […]
One of the important things to learn when learning English is how to guess at the pronunciation of a new word. This is one reason we spend so much time on KK and phonics. But there are other equally-important rules. Here’s one: If a word has a double consonant (two […]