Verbs with to
When should we use verbs with to? Tell to or tell. Have you ever wondered why we say ‘explain to me what happened’ and NOT ‘explain me what happened’?
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Direct method is the only game in town
Direct method — It was three years back when I landed my first job in an English academy in Madrid, Spain. I was young, inexperienced, very nervous and had absolutely no idea how on earth I was going to actually go about teaching my classes.
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Having an accent
No English accent — One thing I’ve noticed virtually all language learners want to achieve, as soon as they can, is getting rid of their accent. That is the specific phonetic features of their speech that are a dead giveaway of the speaker’s first language.
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation that assigns a unique symbol to each sound that we can find in a language.
Our IPA chart for British English.
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