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The post of today is about pronunciation but not only, it is also about a story a student shared with me and I think it’s super interesting but as you might as well understood from the title, this post is about how to pronounce the word Levi’s.Yes, you heard me […]

Aaalright so I, I don’t really know how to put this, where to start, eeerm, well I’ll be brief and I’ll go straight to the point. It’s been a year. It’s been a year since I started this website and I, I don’t know, I have to, I have to […]

If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it…. that’s how the song goes. Anyways:Is there a problem with happiness? Well, if not a problem with it, there is a problem about it, the inevitable expectations. People go out of their way to achieve happiness […]

Have you been on Wikipedia over the past few months?Yep, I bet you most certainly did. You must have seen the rather aggressive banner atop the page, all in red with some words in caps, begging you to donate. The argument put forward? Wikipedia does not run on ads and […]

I started studying English when I was 6. My mother bought me “Magic English”, a trendy video tape for children with weird cartoon characters talking in English. The first time I watched it I hated it. After that first encounter with English, I studied it again in middle school. I […]

By Charlotte Barrett When I was thirteen, I decided I wanted to speak English, properly, without an accent. I was a good student and I had very good grades but with my two years of learning English, I was far from being bilingual. At the time, we did not have […]

We all know about the football game and the exchange of presents in the trenches at Christmas during WWI. We also know about the Japanese soldier who didn’t know war was over and refused to give up fighting long after WWII had finished.Yeah but… have you ever heard of the […]

Here an amazing use of discourse markers and speech connectors. In this interview Robert Downy Jr uses his skills not only by showing an astonishing quality of fluency but also by giving an outstanding performance dodging provocative questions. Also…what a t-shirt…!!! I recommend playing the video at X0.9 speed and […]

This is a story my friend João told me many years ago… London November Two Thousand Eight Let’s say you’re Brazilian, you didn’t finish school and you don’t like the reality of your country. You decide, no matter what, to leave. You got a lot of friends in that city, […]

By Joshua Webster Did I get your attention?What would have been better? “READ THIS FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE” or “FIVE SIMPLE STEPS TO GET MORE MONEY FAST”. Gaining attention from consumers is becoming more competitive, as companies try to appeal to human kind through many ways of advertising. Look at […]