English Pronunciation - the Challenge!

Once you master English pronunciation, this will also help you with your listening skills. These two elements of verbal communication go hand in hand.

How can one achieve fluent speaking in English?

There are 2 ways of learning English pronunciation: the easy way and the hard way. Children instinctively go for the easy option - they listen and repeat until they get it right. I recommend this way to any learner, regardless of age. I've seen too many people studying hard and diligently for years on end and when their studying programme stops, they stop speaking altogether!  [Read more]

Master the use of verbal units of information

These units of information can be defined as the pieces of language which are separated from what goes before and from what follows and which do not contain any punctuation marks. In written English, we use the punctuation marks to make this separation, but not to split the unit/piece of information. [Read more]

In oral English, we use tone units that actually translate your punctuation marks from written to verbal, to indicate to a listener aspects of the ideas you are expressing. The way we achieve this is by using the art of dividing a message into tone units.

Learn English with Phonics

Here's where we'll post a selection of children's books especially designed for learning English by using the Phonics system. Check out our first story here.