The most significant single mistake learners make with the foreign language is ….. translating out of their mother tongue into the foreign language. Hence, you get the typical ‘Dinglish’ mistakes, made by German speakers. It…
It is what separates the wheat from the chaff and like every other part of English, it’s something you must learn if you want to have any chance of understanding native speakers. Unfortunately, it’s something…
Tricky Teatime Titbits for this Thursday morning, eh?! You know we love to shorten everything to save speaking and typing energy. ‘I’d’ & ‘I’d’ obviously look the same, but depending on the context, mean two…
It’s a British English (got) vs American English (gotten) thing in that other, end of the post, thank you. What, still there?!?! OK, OK, let’s look at a few examples to explain what I mean?…
Not just any old post, a post about ‘A’, and not forgetting ‘an’. This first sentence highlights a use of ‘a/an’, namely when a noun is mentioned for the first time – “a post about…