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Do you want to impress your girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, colleague or friends this New Year’s eve? Here’s how you use Albert Einstein’s pearls of wisdom to inspire people while you’re making a toast. As the great Albert Einstein once said:  (Look at person A) LEARN from YESterday (Look at person B) LIVE for toDAY…

Who me? Oh Gosh! let’s see! Maybe…watching TV, partying, sleeping, pigging out, anything ending with “ing”! Yes including “having sex”! Well I think you’ve got the gist of it. 😉 Look, I’m a TV junkie, I like to watch just about anything except reality shows like “Big Brother” “The Biggest Loser” “Fear Factor” or…

You’re very likely to hear and say this word around this time of year right? Just as we are about to bid farewell to 2013 and welcome 2014 with fireworks, a lot of laughter and cheer, we often ask our friends or colleagues What is your New Year’s RESOLUTION? That’s how you say it:…

Here’s a cute idiom in the spirit of the holidays: Like Turkeys Voting for Christmas! Wait a minute. Why would a turkey vote for Christmas? Turkeys should be voting AGAINST Christmas. Why? Because every year on Christmas eve, millions of families around the world eat turkeys for dinner. So the turkeys voting for Christmas…

We use “You can say that again!” to express our strong agreement with someone. So basically, it’s a nice way of saying “I agree with you completely” or“I have exactly the same opinion” etc. I agree with you completely=You can say that again So if I say, for example, “it’s really cold today isn’t…

That is a small but useful list of common English adjectives and some slang expressions with similar meanings to them. Naturally, you would have to find out first how to use them, otherwise, you might wake up one morning with a black eye. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions and…

It is a common mistake when English learners pronounce America as AA-MEE-RII-KAA.  It is too long and very unnatural. Let’s break it down, shall we? A-ME-RI-CA   so that’s 4 sounds (syllables) and the stress is on the second syllable oOoo. Now, the 1st syllable [A] is a schwa sound /ə/.  What does that mean?…

Before I answer this question, you need to know about voiced and voiceless consonants, if you don’t know what these are, go to the Consonant page and study it, and then come back to this question. If you already have, there it is: There are basically 3 types of s pronunciation in English as…

Before I answer this question, you need to know about voiced and voiceless consonants, if you don’t know what these are, go to the Consonant page and study it, and then come back to this question.  If you already have, there it is: There are basically 3 types of -ed pronunciation as follows: 1-/t/…

Most English learners pronounce the word “available” the wrong way.  There are 3 reasons that learners mispronounce it. Reason 1: The schwa sounds The word “available” contains 3 schwa sounds.  2 of them are visible and 1 is not. The schwa sound is a weak sound.  When I say weak, it means that we…