Archive for July, 2013
Footwear – expand your shoe vocabulary Posted by Gabriele on Jul 9, 2013
There are so many kinds of footwear out there! It might be impossible to name them all, but I have tired to think of some of the most common types of shoes you will see around to put together this video so you can start to expand your shoe vocabulary using more specific words related…
Take a virtual vacation to Washington DC for the 4th of July! Posted by Gabriele on Jul 4, 2013
Today is Independence Day in the United States; it is a national holiday in which people are celebrating when the USA declared its independence as a free country. It is the USA’s birthday! There is probably no better place to be on a nation’s independence day than in the nation’s capital, which in this case…
American Dialects Posted by Gabriele on Jul 2, 2013
Although English is the majority language in the United States, that doesn’t mean all Americans speak alike. American dialects, including how words are pronounced and what words people use to talk about the same things, vary throughout the country. Today I thought we would look at some of the different ways Americans say the same…