Preparing yourself for an Interview in English
So, you have your first interview in English. Great! Well done on getting this far. For many people, interviews can bring a lot of stress. This stress can be multiplied if you are worried...
Monthly Archive: May 2019
English words used in Spanish
As an Englishman in Argentina, I have one strange problem sometimes – I’m not sure how to pronounce words of English origin. When I want to say to someone to meet me outside the...
Do you get it? Test your knowledge of the word ‘get’.
Last week we looked at all of the possible meanings of the word ‘get’. But, did you get them all? Check how many of the meanings you are comfortable with, with this quick test....
Get it right! All the uses of ‘get’.
According to studies by the Oxford English Corpus, ‘Get’ is the 5th most common verb in English, and the 47th most common word overall. Despite native speakers using this verb constantly, it can be...
7 ways to learn vocabulary in the 21st century
Vocabulary is famously difficult to learn. Many boring hours have been spent by language students in the past practising lists of words. Perhaps they learned, and perhaps they didn’t. But, surely, today, there must...
