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Close your eyes. Think about your dream vacation spot. For me, it’s a house with a fireplace and a lot of books, built [...]
In this series we learn some basic computer vocabulary, talk about wants and needs, and discuss just how convenient our ‘modern conveniences’ really are.
Thanks to a post from Learn English Online (a great blog with ideas to learn English for free over the Internet), I’ve found a website that promises to help you learn English. The website is called Verbalearn, and it looks like it will be good for advanced vocabulary learners.
It’s that time! There’s been a week of vocabulary, a lot of listening practice. You were encouraged to practice writing with the vocabulary. Now it’s time to see what’s stuck in your memory.
This is a test with six questions with the vocabulary introduced on Monday. (Yes, you could look it up, but that’s cheating.)
Give it [...]
This is the first post in the Apartment Hunting series. The other posts are:
The Neighborhood
The Apartment
My Home is my Castle
The Test
A Little Grammar
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“A man’s home is [...]
We’ve been talking pregnancy and babies all week! Are you ready to see how much you’ve learned? The pregnancy-vocabulary quiz is five questions to let you see how well you’ve learned the vocabulary.
If you hear that a woman is expecting, you can guess that she’s:Waiting for guests.Lactose intolerant.Going to have a baby.Angry that her husband [...]
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After you’ve triaged1 your vocabulary and you know exactly what words you want to learn, how do you make them stick? The most honest answer I [...]
