Have you ever listened to native English speakers and thought their speech had a special rhythm — something musical? That’s because of sentence stress. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm. In every sentence, some words are stressed — said louder, longer, or higher — while others are spoken more softly or quickly. Learning […]
Watch the French President, Emmanual Macron make a speech in English and learn about some of the most common errors made by French people when they speak English. Consonant ‘h’ French speakers often have difficulty pronouncing the English consonant /h/ at the beginning of words because the /h/ sound is generally silent in French. As […]
Did you know that the letters ‘T’ and ‘D’ don’t always sound like /t/ or /d/ in native English speech? The way we pronounce them depends on the sounds that come before or after them. If you learn and apply the five pronunciation rules below, your spoken English will sound much more fluent and natural—especially […]
The Labor Party has now managed to preside over a country with the lowest living standards since 1959—an astonishing achievement in mismanagement. Let’s rewind to 13 January 2022, when the Liberal Party was still in power. COVID was still around, and Australia was experiencing a crippling labor shortage, particularly in hospitality and retail. The Liberal […]
Many of my students have problems with pronouncing the English vowels, and sometimes, it’s not much that they can’t pronounce them, but rather, it’s that they can’t tell the difference between 2 vowels that may sound close or similar. They may really struggle with distinguishing between minimal pairs such as ‘ship’ and ‘sheep’, ‘walk’ and […]
The Australian international education sector is under siege, and the fallout from Ministerial Direction 111 is devastating private education providers, particularly in the ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) and VET sectors. But as many of you in the industry are aware, this crisis didn’t start with Direction 111—it goes back to […]
As a CEO of SCOTS English College, I am normally tied up with management and rarely have the opportunity to do what I enjoy doing best, that is teach. I can’t wait to hop back in the classroom on Jan 27 and see and feel the magic of the BBR method! The only reason that […]
Little do humans realize their full potential, and few go on to experience what it is truly like to fulfill it. There’s often only one culprit, and that is staying in our comfort zone where we are least challenged, where we are most familiar with the players and the ‘rules of the game.’ Even though […]
At the age of 21, I had never spoken a single word of English. Yet, by 22, I had achieved native-like proficiency, an accomplishment that astonished even native speakers. My journey was one of determination, rigorous practice, and innovative strategies, which later inspired me to develop the BBR Method—a transformative approach to teaching English as […]
A debate gone terribly wrong Oh boy, not sure if you guys have watched the disastrous debate between Milo Yiannopoulos and some Australian Muslim girl. She has taken upon herself to defend the entire religion but that unfortunately didn’t go very well for her as you can tell from the video. Too bad! I can […]
