Five – Minute punctuation boost: commas.
Punctuation works in almost the same way between English and other European languages. In both Spanish and English you can easily insert one comma into this sentence, to invite Maria to eat, instead...
Category: Language acquisition
Some common useful expressions
One of the hardest parts of learning a language are ready-made expressions. Those expressions are even more difficult when they don’t make any obvious sense! To help, I have made a collection of some...
10-Minute Pronunciation Boost!
It can be difficult to change habits of pronunciation. Sometimes, you may know how to pronounce a word correctly by itself, but reading a sentence fast can lead you to say things incorrectly. We...
How well people in Asia speak English and why
English is the lingua franca of the world. It is by far the most popular second language learnt, and it is being taught in almost every country. Sometimes well, sometimes...
Raising Bilingual Children
I grew up in England, however, every summer I visited Gibraltar, where my father is from. My Gibraltarian family spoke Llanito, a mix of English and Spanish. Although as a teenager my Spanish was...
