10+ Free Online English Language Lessons
Learn English at no cost with these free online English language lessons. Includes audio and video English lessons, as well as complete courses.
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13 Badass German Words and What They Mean
Learn 13 memorable German words, from Fernweh and Schadenfreude to Feierabend, with accurate meanings, register notes and examples.
English Listening Practice: 50+ Brilliant Resources for ESL Learners
Practice your ESL listening skills. Get English listening practice through music, podcasts, cartoons, radio, TV and more...
How to Remember Difficult English Spellings
Do you struggle with English spelling? If so, you're not alone. There are no rules to English spelling, but there are simple hacks you can use to remember how to spell difficult English words.
What English is Missing: 5 Features from Other Languages that ‘We’ Should Borrow
Expressing yourself in other languages can turn out to be more efficient than English. Here, an experienced language learner gives great examples
The American Accent mission: Learning about phonetics and sentence rhythm in English to help with OTHER language projects!
Time to reveal what my fun part-time language mission for the summer is, and you may be surprised by how genuinely practical it is!! Basically, rather than learn a new language, as I normally tend to do (or maintain my current languages, which I am doing anyway this summer), I’ve decided to learn a new […]
Language Hacking tips for English speaking travellers (My TBEX talk)
Here it is! My first time ever speaking in front of such a large audience! The video is 30 minutes long and covers some tips and encouragement that I’ve mentioned on the blog at various times and which are covered in much more detail in the Language Hacking Guide of course. Since the audience was […]
Ironic post: Why English is all you need to travel the world
Over the last month, I’ve changed my ways of trying to communicate in the local language, and I’ve been living the life of a typical English-speaking tourist. This is the first time in a long time that I’ve tried this, as I almost always work on linguistic immersion as a means of getting to know […]
Getting rid of your English accent when speaking a foreign language
Right, let’s get down to business! If you want to sound like a local, you need to work on many things and your foreigner accent is one of them. When I speak in English I’ve got a lovely wee (slightly watered down) Irish accent. However, when trying to speak my first foreign language I had […]
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