Video Post on The Schwa: The Lazy Vowel – Part 1

What is the SCHWA? The SCHWA is the reduced vowel sound in English which makes your language sound more natural, like a native speaker. Each part of the series looks at the role of the schwa in different contexts. Here is a summary of the five parts: 1. English is a...

Video Post on Travel Idioms

This is the last of my series on common idioms that are useful to know and use at work. There are 7 videos in total. We have covered idioms involving animals, food, movement, violence, weather, sports, and now travel. Today I have 4 travel idioms to share with you:...

Video Post on Sports Idioms

Our idioms come from our histories, our conditions, our culture and our activities. In North America, we have a lot of drinking idioms, horses and guns idioms, weather idioms and, what I am sharing this week, sports idioms. Sometimes, if you know how to play the game,...
Video Post on Pronunciation: T & D

Video Post on Pronunciation: T & D

This is the last video in my series on English consonants. This time I am looking at the sharp T and its counterpart, D. There are many ways to pronounce T in English but the sharp T is the way we pronounce T when it starts a word or a stressed syllable. It is...

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