Linguist, teacher of foreign languages ​​and cultures Kristina Konstandenkova posts amazing facts about the English language on Twitter. Foreign languages ​​are her element since childhood, she prefers books and films in the original language. Interested in the history of the language and collects unusual facts about ...

Ivan Rubtsov spoke in a column for the Habr website about his experience of learning English and shared things that worked and didn’t work for him personally. He recalled that the process of learning a language is very individual, and one can never say that any one method is correct...

The speech of Russians who have lived a little in America is noticeably transformed. People, speaking their native language, begin to insert English words willy-nilly or pronounce Russian words in the American way. Such a code language is jokingly called “Ruinglish” (“Runglish”), Amerussian girl writes in her blog on Yandex.Zen...

Sometimes Russian speakers, speaking in English, sound very rude. This is usually due to the fact that they very literally translate phrases that are pronounced normally in Russian, but do not sound very good in English. On his YouTube channel, Justin shared four moments when Russian-speaking...

How many meanings can an English word have? “A lot, a lot, an awful lot!” students will say, and they will be right. However, as a rule, these meanings will be close or similar, for example: dance - “dance” or “dance”, love - “love”, “love”, “love”, “beloved”. But there are also some words...

Many people do not have enough money to study English to attend the courses they would like, or the schedule does not fit into their work schedule. ForumDaily has prepared information about seven online English language courses in different areas, which are opening in prestigious American and world universities...

An English-Russian culinary dictionary to help housewives who want to cook according to the recipes of English-language sites and books. Lifehacker has decided not to stop at translating common ingredients like vegetables and fruits. The article contains only those terms that will help you follow the recipe exactly and cook ...

Lingualeo's teachers have made an excellent selection of podcasts for preschoolers, schoolchildren, and teens with varying levels of language proficiency. Language learners won't lie: listening is the hardest skill. But it is important to master it, since the process of listening is 45% of the total time of communication between people. Gadgets and the Internet help turn the training process into a fun ...

When learning a foreign language, there is often a fear of communication. What if the words were pronounced incorrectly? What if thoughts freeze? Of course, gaining self-confidence when communicating in a non-native language takes time, but the first step to this is very simple: practice. Babbel launches two speech…

Ask for a pen or pencil - what could be easier! This is what we taught at school: “Give me a pen (a pencil) please.” Using this simple phrase as an example, I want to show how sometimes the academic differs from the real...