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 About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Canada Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Thursday, October 7, 2010 Expressions with ‘Baby’! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Tweet (Photo by cakebreak) This post is a companion to the listening lesson “Baby Gifts.” Let’s take a look at some English expressions with ‘baby’! be having a […]

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 […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Sunday, January 17, 2010 Pronunciation – How to Say the English Alphabet! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook One of the first things you should learn when learning a new lanugage is how to say the alphabet. In this video I say the […]

Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Thursday, February 25, 2010 Grammar – Gerunds and Infinitives for Purpose Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Gerunds and infinitives are a part of English grammar that many English learners find challenging. Here, I explain a small but important area of […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Pronunciation – How to Say Numbers 0-99 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook By the end of this video, you’ll be able to say every single number in English from 0 to 99. There’s even a short quiz at […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Friday, March 12, 2010 Grammar – Can a gerund be used after ‘to’? Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook In a previous post, I explained when you can and can’t use for + gerund, and I noted a […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Pronunciation Practice – ‘sh’ /ʃ/ and ‘ch’ /tʃ/ sounds Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This is a pronunciation lesson to practice the ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ sounds. English learners often confuse these two sounds. Part I – minimal pairs […]