Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Listening Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Here you will find all my listening lessons! Each listening lesson includes: a short story about life in Canada discussion questions a short pronunciation lesson On each page here on my […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Pronunciation Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Pronunciation is essential for speaking and understanding spoken English well. It should be the FIRST thing you learn when studying a language. You should focus not only on how to make the different sounds (paying close […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Study Tips Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Are you learning English on your own? Are you taking a class right now but looking for things you can do to improve your English outside of class? Here are some ideas: How to Speak […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Monday, December 12, 2011 New English Word: Glamping Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook /’glæm.pɪŋ/ (Photo by Jenni Lloyd) Every time I turn around, I notice a new English word! In October it was flightmare, and now it’s glamping! I first saw this […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Vocabulary Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook How to: How to Laugh in English! Do Not Call It a Toilet! How to Say that Something Is Expensive! How to Creatively Say that Someone is dumb! When to Say […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Thursday, June 17, 2010 Expressions – How to Say Something is Expensive! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by liuwencheng) In the listening lesson “Sex and the City 2!” I talked about buying snacks at the movie theatre. I think that paying $6.26 for a […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Thursday, September 16, 2010 Expressions – Marriage: Asking Someone to Marry You, Getting Married and Types of Marriages! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by fred the chicken) Here are some expressions you can use to talk […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Sunday, August 8, 2010 Pronunciation – 50 English Words with ‘ch’ Pronounced /k/ Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook English is such a confusing language! Often there is more than one way to pronounce a single letter or group of letters. In this […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Sunday, October 17, 2010 Pronunciation – 60 Words with / ʌ / ‘uh’ Vowel Sound Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This is a pronunciation practice lesson designed to help you improve your pronunciation of the English vowel […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Sunday, January 3, 2010 Pronunciation – 7 Commonly Mispronounced English Words (Video) Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This is an English pronunciation lesson to help you learn how to pronounce words clearly and correctly. I have noticed […]