English Language

I teach English to foreigners.  The purpose of this post is to tell you some common mistakes I’ve seen with students learning English.
Mistake number 1 in learning English
There is only really one mistake in learning English, that is studying things that are not important.  People study text book English not real English.  This post will [...]

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No English are you kidding? What are you talking about, the English language is what we all communicate in.
The purpose of this post is to convey how to speak a foreign language. Not just the idea of speaking a foreign language, or a method to learn a language, but actually getting your tongue and mouth [...]

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EnglishRussia is a blog, which is about Russia and depends on user contribution as well as their staff, submitting mostly photos to their blog.
What is EnglishRussia?
The website EnglishRussia or rather is a blog that gets about 200,000 visitors a day.   From the name and the visits you would think that it would be in depth [...]

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LPGA wants to require English
The LPGA or the Lady’s Professional Golf Association is stupid. Why? It wants to require golf players to pass English proficiency tests or they will be kicked out of the LPGA. This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of. The motive is business and marketing. [...]

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English language accent percentages
What percentage of people in the world speak American language accents vs British or other accents?
Accent percentages
American accents 70%
English accents 15%
Canadian accents 5%
Australian accents 5%
Other 5%

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English language church service in Krakow
Krakow, Poland is a city with perhaps as many churches per square foot as anywhere in the world. One church that might be of value for English speakers is the Church of St. Giles. If you are visiting Krakow, this church has an English speaking mass on Sunday at 10:30, [...]

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Top ten nouns used in English
1 Time
2 Person
3 Year
4 Way
5 Day
6 Thing
7 Man
8 World
9 Life
10 Hand
This list surprises me. Time at number 1. This list of the most common English nouns was from written English not Spoken English, so in reality I think the most common nouns would be different with Spoken English. Read more [...]

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English words that are often mistaken
I am no grammarian or spelling master so I am sure I am guilty of a few of these mistakes, even on my language blog. Check out the list and see how you are using English

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List of twenty weird words
For example:
7. Limerance
To be in love
8. Mesonoxian
Pertaining to midnight
9. Mungo
A dumpster diver – one who extracts valuable things from trash

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The country that will dominate will determine next world language
The powers
The way I see it is there is the USA, Europe, China, Russia, India.
Other power
 Other considerations are either too small, like Japan or South Korea or like Africa or South America or the Arab world, does not have; at this time have a critical level [...]

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