In this English vocabulary lesson, you will learn the difference between "hear" and "listen". "Hearing" and "listening" are different and they are often considered as confusing English words to students because they have a similar meaning. It explains the form and meaning of both words and It gives you lots of examples.
There are some exercises at the end of the video. It is important to learn difficult English vocabulary like this if you want to improve.
In this bewitching title, the Word Wizard gives readers a potion that helps them understand concepts such as verb tense, shades of meaning, and how using strong action verbs can make your words hop, jump, or leap off the page!
Word of Mouth: Workplace Idioms for the Non-Native Speaker
A number of years ago when I began to work at several corporations teaching ‘accent reduction’ to non-native speakers of American English, I was often asked to define informal, everyday expressions. These employees were eager to know the meaning of idioms and slang that they had heard their colleagues use in the workplace.
A fifth series from BBC Radio 4 in which Stephen Fry examines, with the help of experts, the highways and byways of the English language. In these four episodes he tells The Story of X: a letter holy and profane, sexy and chaste; discusses intonation, the "song" of English and how cadence affects meaning; muses on the art and craft of conversation - and whether true conversation can happen on TV and radio - and ponders the meaning of meaning, and the gap between brain and mouth that means language can never truly represent thought. In addition, he tells us why blue as a colour is a newish invention.
The concept of style has a wide - not to say confusing - currency in many seemingly disparate linguistic frameworks. It is one of those terms that has an even wider currency outside the confines of linguistics, as for instance in the history of art and in literary criticism, quite apart from the fact that it also exists as an everyday term with a rather imprecise meaning and many fuzzy edges.
