English learning
Questions
1. What images are in your mind when you hear the word ‘English’?
2. Why are you studying English?
3. How happy are you with your English level?
4. What is your best piece of advice to study English?
5. What are the things you like most and least about English?
6. Do you think English is more or less difficult than your language?
7. What’s more important: speaking, reading, writing or listening?
8. What did you think of English at school?
Videos
English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four
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alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue.
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Category: Education & Language
This video will teach you how to say, write, read and pronounce dates and years in both British and American English!
Category: Education & Language
Learn how to describe the weather and the seasons with grammar, adjectives, nouns, verbs and idioms in this English lesson with your English teacher Lucy.
Category: Education & Language
Dig into Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar and decide: are there universal grammar rules and are they hardwired into our brains?
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Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we’re able to do so from an early age— almost as soon as we start to communicate in sentences. How is this possible? In the early 1950s, Noam Chomsky proposed a theory that the key to this versatility was grammar. Cameron Morin details Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar.
Lesson by Cameron Morin, directed by Eoin Duffy.
Lesson by Cameron Morin, directed by Eoin Duffy.
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Category: Education & Language
Keywords: English | Your language