Speak-í-zi

16/07/2012

Love!

09/07/2012

Quick & Dirty Grammar Tips - a good reference site!

Grammar Girl has tips and grammar exercises to help you learn and remember all the grammar rules on punctuation, word choice, and more.

04/07/2012

Just found out that 10 out of 10 students passed the exam they needed for their jobs - Hurra! Congrats to them.

03/04/2012

Immerse yourself!

It is possible for adults to process a language the same way a native speaker does, and over time, the processing improves even when the skill goes unused.

02/03/2012

Tough, but funny!

Comedian John Branyan tells the story of The Three Little Pigs as it would have sounded if written by Shakespeare in this hilarious stand-up performance.

01/03/2012

Fun site I just found about...well... words, language, and linguistics. Also clarifies some tough grammar points - worth a browse!

A blog about words, language and linguistics

24/02/2012

Sarah is now in Prague and ready for students! Want lessons? Know someone who does? Give me a call!

13/01/2012

Will miss such wonderful students!

12/01/2012

My favorite pronunciation site of all time.

This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, an...

10/01/2012

Something to strive for, students!

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

10/01/2012

What Americans spoke before English - an interesting project on an often overlooked part of American cultural history...

Our Mother Tongues

07/01/2012

Sarah is moving back to Prague in 4 weeks and will be looking for students there... Start spreading the word!