Archive for 'English Language'
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter u Posted by Gabriele on Oct 12, 2012
To continue our look at vowel sounds, today we will investigate the letter ‘u.’ I wanted to learn more about this letter to share with you and so I turned to Wikipedia for some help and found some very interesting information about how the vowel ‘u’ and consent ‘v’ were once connected. Apparently during late…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter o Posted by Gabriele on Oct 9, 2012
To continue our look at vowel sounds, today we will investigate the letter ‘o’. What is there to say about this letter. Well it is the fifteenth letter of the alphabet and along with the capital letter H, I, and X, the letter O is one of the few letters that look the same if…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter i Posted by Gabriele on Oct 5, 2012
The next letter in this series looking at vowel sounds in English is the letter ‘i’. This is an interesting vowel because it is one of the only letters of the English alphabet that is a word in itself, as in the word for the first person pronoun in English ‘I’. The only other letter…
Fun facts about English words Posted by Gabriele on Oct 4, 2012
A while back I wrote a post about palindromes which are some really fun words in English. I thought today it would be interesting to look at some fun facts about words and letters in English in general. We speak, hear, and write words all the time, but it isn’t often we give them much…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter e Posted by Gabriele on Oct 2, 2012
Today we continue our look at the different vowel sounds in English by focusing on the letter ‘e.’ Before honing in on the short and long vowel sounds of the letter ‘e’ I want to introduce to you the concept of the silent ‘e’ in English. There are many words in English that end in…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter a Posted by Gabriele on Sep 28, 2012
Today I am going to begin a series of posts looking at different vowel sounds. Since the letter ‘a’ is the first letter of the alphabet it makes the most sense to begin with this letter. Before we begin, it is important to remember that all vowels in English make two different types of sounds…
Beginner Video Lesson 1 – Introduce Yourself Posted by sasha on Sep 23, 2012
Start from the very beginning with the first of our Beginner English Video Lessons – Introduce Yourself. Learn how to ask and answer five questions that are used for introductions. Follow along and get some practice: