How much difficulty you have in learning English might depend on whether your native language has similarities to it. “The type of language that the student brings with them is a key factor ...

To work out how many words you need to know to be able to speak a second language we decided to look into how many words we know in our first language, in our case English.

What about kids from non English speaking homes or non English speaking countries? How can they learn to pronounce English words at that age?

Using linking words is one of the ways to demonstrate coherence, according to English teacher Gwendolen Warnick. Coherence is one of the skills assessed in English speaking tests so we asked Gwen ...

And that is the key, the frequency with which the words you learn appear in day-to-day use in the language you're learning. You don't need to know all of the words in a language: for example it ...