English learning

English for children: http://www.geocities.com/learnaz/english_for_children.htm http://www.learningplanet.com/act/abcorder.asp http://www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/index.asp http://www.lil-fingers.com/abc/intro.html http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm http://www.primarygames.com/theabcgame/start.htm Learn English by yourself: http://assoc.orange.fr/une.education.pour.demain/rodsex/rodsindex.htm http://depts.gallaudet.edu/Englishworks/ http://eleaston.com/ http://esl.about.com/ http://internationaleflcafe.com/index.htm http://www.1-language.com/ http://www.angelfire.com/yt/efl/ http://www.antimoon.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml http://www.englishdaily626.com/ http://www.englishforums.com/ http://www.englishpage.com/ http://www.esldesk.com/esl-links/ http://www.eslpages.com/ http://www.everydayenglish.com/index.htm http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html http://www.learnenglish.de/ http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/ http://www.myefa.o...

What is an accent? An accent is the carryover of sounds from the speaker’s original language to the second language. When we are infants we literally have the ability to speak any language in the world. We are all born with the necessary speech mechanisms and the capability to learn any language. We end up speaking the language that we do solely by reinforcement. The sounds a baby hears and the speech patterns he is exposed to are the ones that she develops. Soon the baby gains the fine motor skill and control she needs to create sounds herself. The infant will begin by babbling and playing with sounds. Soon she is able to produce simple vowel/consonant combinations which maybe why mama and dada are often their first words, they can make the combination and the big reaction it elicits reinforces their efforts. By 18 months she will be able to produce about 20 words that have meaning and understand around 50 words. Now babies of course have the ultimate immersion experience. In order t...

When you speak in your native language, you don't have to think about the grammar or the words you use. Correct sentences seem to just come to you. Your brain uses sentences you've already seen or heard. If you want to learn to speak the English language fluently, you have to learn it the way you learned your native language, by reading and listening. Reading and listening to the English language will help you develop English language intuition. Learning the English language is all about putting lots of proper sentences in your head. Your brain can then imitate them and produce similar English language sentences to express the meaning you want. When you read and listen to the English language a lot, paying close attention to useful English vocabulary, you will soon start to use new English language words and phrases in your speaking and writing. Not only that, but you will develop English language intuition. You will start to feel what sounds good and what sounds incorrect i...

Author: George Williams Do you have any plan to pursue your further education abroad? Will you need English for your career or your education? If so, you may wish to investigate your options for learning, or improving, your English skills. The TOEFL Test: TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language) is a test used by many colleges, universities, government agencies and exchange and scholarship programs in the US, UK and Canada as a means of evaluating the language skills of a person whose first language is not English. You can find TOEFL study guides easily online with other recommended resources listed. You may be able to access some of the sample tests and prepare with personal study. Or you may look for a class with an instructor to help you prepare for the test. ESL Classes: ESL classes are a common means for students to learn English with group of classmates. These can be in the form of an evening class with various individuals attending or may be part of a college program durin...

Example 2 The Qualities of a Good Husband and Wife Nowadays, people try to find the following qualities in each other. First, they desire to find understanding. Understanding is important in a marriage. Marriage fail whenever a couple fails or refuses to understand each other. Second, they desire someone who is patient. Understanding cannot occur while one or both persons loses their temper, so patience is certainly required. Third, the partner should be imaginative. Imagination can add excitement to a marriage and save it from collapse. Last, the partners should be faithful to each other. Although changing oneself is important, each person should only dress and disguise in order to excite the companion to love him or her more. The above are among the most essential qualities which people try to find it each other, or themselves.

1. TOEFL http://acescores.netfirms.com/TOEFL/toefl.html http://esl.about.com/cs/toefl/ http://www.englishdaily626.com/tfvocab.php?001 http://www.stuff.co.uk/toefl.htm http://www.testmagic.com/toefl/ http://www.testwise.com/review.html 2. IELTS http://esl.about.com/cs/toefl/a/a_ielts_2.htm http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~qqqf/ielts.html http://www.ielts.studyau.com/ 3. TOEIC http://www.1-language.com/materials/toeic/index.htm http://www.4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=74 http://www.docnmail.com/tests/language/toeic.htm http://www.encomiuminteractive.com/Shockwave/AlexisDemo/ http://www.englishclub.com/esl-exams/ets-toeic.htm http://www.english-test.net/toeic/index2.html http://www.free-english.com/TOEIC-practice-test.aspx http://www.toeiccity.com/

Why Do Foreign Men Like Asian Women? Asian women have a fascination for Western men, which may include these reason. First, Asian women are more dutiful toward their husbands traditionally. They regard their husbands as their older brothers, as their sons and take good care of them. Asian women are taught to regard son as more important than themselves. Second, Asian women still have a traditional feminine virtue. They continue to support their husbands and look after their children. To many Asian women, the home and the family are still most important. Third and last, Asian women still are more exciting than Western women because familiarity breed contempt. A foreign visitor only meets most Asian women in their homelands; therefore, he knows little about them and desires them for what he's seen. The above reasons help explain the stimulation of Asian women for the foreigners.

Practice and Quiz: http://lampang.thcity.com/quiz/indexo.html (For Thai learners) http://members.aol.com/eslkathy/esl.htm http://members.shaw.ca/jack-higa/prototype/SB10.htm http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/index.html http://parapal-online.co.uk/ http://towerofenglish.com/writing.html http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm http://www.agendaweb.org/ http://www.autoenglish.org/ http://www.better-english.com/easier.htm http://www.churchillhouse.com/tests/index.html http://www.easyenglish.com/ http://www.englishforum.com/00/interactive/ http://www.englishjet.com/english_courses_files/tests.htm http://www.englishladder.com/ http://www.forumeducation.net/ http://www.manythings.org/voa/ http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/ http://www.rong-chang.com/quiz.htm http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/LangHelp/Grammar/interactive.html http://www.scientificpsychic.com/engtst1.html http://www.smic.be/smic5022/ http://www.testpodium.com/en/main/englischtest_02.asp http://www.w...

L earning a language is a complex and long process as anyone who has tried will agree. One of the most difficult and frustrating things is making the transition from the classroom to the 'real' world. In the classroom, everyone knows you are a student and mistakes are allowed, and the environment is contained and safe. Speaking another language outside the classroom is completely different and often students are lost at sea as soon as they step outside the door. Lists of memorized vocabulary are suddenly useless when ordering in a restaurant. Role-plays, or simulations are one of the ways ESL instructors can ease students' transition into using English in real world situations. A simulation is where students act out a real-life situation, for example checking into at a hotel, but do not act out a different personality. Role-plays are where students take on different personalities. In a role-play, for example, one student may be asked to take on the role of "an angry n...

Advantages of Reading English Newspaper Newspaper are reading materials that contain many kinds of world-wide information. In Thailand we will find many types of newspaper, but the most common ones are newspapers written in Thai or in English. Only certain groups of people read the English newspapers, such as the Bangkok Post and The Nation. These people will gain advantages in reading them. These advantages can be classified into three major groups to acquire many types of knowledge, to get informative information in daily life and to increase the reader' English knowledge. The first advantage of reading English newspapers is to acquire many types of knowledge about the world. Both English newspapers in Thailand contain the current happenings around the world. Readers can have good opportunities to see the pictures of important persons, cities and civilizations and keep them as records for future use. Moreover, readers can read many kinds of news stories so that they wi...

Format of Essays Topic Introductory Paragraph_________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ___________________ Thesis Sentence Body Paragraph 1_____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Body Paragraph 2_____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Body Paragraph 3_____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Concluding Paragraph__________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________

Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience. Example : Informative Description A visit to the Supermaket One afternoon, my elder sister took me to the super-market near our house. She had wanted to buy some things in order to make a cake. A uniformed guard was stationed at the supermarket's entrance. He obviously on the lookout for shoplifters. Inside the supermarket I could see shelves and shelves of goods on display. There were so many different types of things on sale that it was impossible to name them all. In general goods were placed together under different sections. There were sections on frozen food, grocery, confectionery, stationery, toys, hardware, electrical goods, clothes, watches, sports equipment, shoes and others. We wandered around for a while just looking at the things on sale. When we had looked to our hearts' content we walked over ...

You should think of writing as a process involving the following steps: 1. Topic sentence 2. supporting details 3. Coherence 4. Transition 5. Closing Sentence A narrative paragraph describes an event, feeling or experience in story form or in the order the details of the event happened. Sample of transition Reasoning because : Micheal studies hard because he want to pass the examination. as : I could not come as it rained hard yesterday. : As he was a fool, he refused to listen to me. Since : Since you have worked hard, you will succeed. seeing that : He was ill, he couldn't come to work. (seeing that he was ill, he couldn't come to work). due to the fact that owing to the fact that in view of the fact that on account of the fact that Purpose so that so in order that for the purpose that for fear that Example : I come to see you so that you can help me. She comes so she sees her mother....

Links to writing skill practice : http://scc.losrios.edu/~langlit/esl/links/writinglinks.html Wordiness : http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/style/wordiness.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ http://staff.jccc.net/pmcqueen/Tips/wordiness.htm http://web.uvic.ca/~gkblank/wordiness.html http://www.class.uidaho.edu/adv_tech_wrt/resources/sentence_style/Wordiness.htm Business Letter: http://esl.about.com/cs/onthejobenglish/a/a_basbletter.htm http://esl.about.com/library/howto/htbusiness.htm http://jobsearchtech.about.com/library/bl-business-letters.htm http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_basicbusletter.html http://www.bkkonline.com/business/ http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/ http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/letters.html http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/BusinessLetter.html Plain English: http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/writing/concise.htm http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/plainenglish/ http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/ Form: http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/exercises/multichoice.swf?...

Example 2 Nowadays the global warming is the critical problems for the people around the world. Due to the climate change dramatically, it takes strong affect to the human being including animals and plants. The global warming caused by the greenhouse gases – air pollute which have been generated by human for instance from the transportation. These gases rise up to the atmosphere and trap the sun energy for escaping, thus, the global warming up every year. It is reported that the earth’s temperature has risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last century. If the human’s activity still releases the greenhouse gases the earth will be get hotter and affect on economic and health definitely. The ways that we can help to suppress global warming are using sustainable energy, reuse or recycle the materials and preserve the forest including animals to maintain ecology system. Using sustainable energy seems to be the most interesting choice to help the critical of global warming. To date th...

Newspaper: Thai Newspaper The Nation Group http://www.nationjunior.net/ Student-weekly http://www.student-weekly.com/ http://www.norsorpor.com/english.html Most Popular online Newspaper http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ http://www.oneworld.net/ Magazine http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml http://www.magatopia.com/ http://www.magportal.com/ Free E-book/Forum/Article http://pinkmonkey.com/pinkmonkey.asp http://towerofenglish.com/reading.html http://www.bibliomania.com/ http://www.bookrags.com/articles/ http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/ http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ http://www.campusnut.com/bookindex.cfm http://www.cityfamily.org/v2/cicityFamily.asp http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm http://www.freebooknotes.com/ http://www.knowledgerush.com/ http://www.magickeys.com/books/ http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ Free Textbook Business Conversation http://www.wphat.com/knowledge/onlinebooks/businessconversation/busiconver.html BBC Studyguides http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/lea...

Make Your Own Personal Dictionary If you can get your hands on a dictionary, a bilingual one or a target language only dictionary, you'll be in the clover when learning English or another foreign language. Be sure to highlight new words you need from reading through a short target language magazine or newspaper article. But if a dictionary in your target language is non-existent or unavailable, you can make handy little flashcards with today's group of words on one side and their meanings in English (or your Mother tongue) on the other side. Tuck a few of these in your pocket or purse to quickly refer to as you go through the day's activities. You'll pick up essential vocabulary on a daily basis. In scant weeks you'll be using your flashcards less and less as you internalize the new vocabulary. When the first batch is "learned", start another batch. Remember, they say that you can never be too rich, too thin or have enough foreign language vocabulary. Fore...

A writer is sitting at his desk trying to work on an article that is due tomorrow. He knows what he wants to say, but he just can not seem to put it into words. He decides to pull out his trusty thesaurus to try to find the right words to convey his message. The writer finds some words that he thinks will fit perfectly into his article, but he is not sure, because they are outside his vocabulary. The writer consults his dictionary to make sure that the words he has found actually describe the meaning he is trying to convey. After consulting his most important tools, the writer completes his article, and is very happy with his finished product, and so is his editor. A dictionary is a great tool for any writer’s arsenal that can expand your vocabulary, and help you find the words that you need when you are writing. You definitely want to pull out your dictionary when you think that a word will fit in your writing, but you are not quite sure about the word’s meaning. Also the dictionary c...

Basically, this is just another expression for sms dictionary, or sms shortcut. These abbreviations are simply the text messaging shortcuts that people use each and every day to make sending sms text messages so much quicker and easier. Some of the shortcuts below are only used for instant messenger messages, or at the end of a text message to convey the mood of the person sending the text message. Some of the txt msg shortcuts are good examples of how people shorten words when they send text messages. So let's take a look at some common text message abbreviations, then. SMS Text Messaging Abbreviations: Anything - NTHING Are you OK - RUOK? Are - R Ate - 8 Be - B Before - B4 Be seeing you - BCNU Cutie - QT Date - D8 Dinner - DNR Easy - EZ Eh? - A? Excellent - XLNT Fate - F8 For - 4 For your information - FYI Great - GR8 Late - L8 Later - L8R Lots of love/laughs - Lol Love - LUV Mate - M8 Please - PLS Please call me - PCM Queue/cue - Q Rate - R8 See/sea - C See you later - CU L8R S...

English Daily Conversation: http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Speaking/ http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/default.htm http://www.efl.net/ http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/conversation.htm http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/conversation.html http://www.freeenglishnow.com/memory.html http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omaudio/contenidotematico.htm Particles in Conversation Questions 1 – 7 ( test preposition) http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle.html http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle2.html http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle3.html http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle4.html http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle5.html http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle6.html http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle7.html Telephone English: http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa092000a.htm http://langues.ups-tlse.fr/Murillo/Telephoning/Telephoning.htm http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/listening/roletelephone.htm http://www.handoutsonline.com/handouts/misc/telephone2.pdf http://www.learningthai.com/phone.html Job intervi...

NEWS 1. Thai News Agency http://enews.mcot.net/ 2. BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml 3. VOICE OF AMERICA http://www.voanews.com/english/Webcasts.cfm http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish Voice of America ? Thai http://www.voanews.com/Thai/index.cfm 4. RADIO JAPAN ONLINE - listen to the latest news any time, in any of 18 languages http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/index_e.html http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/ 5. CNN http://www.cnn.com 6. Reuters http://www.reuters.com 7. AP http://www.ap.org/ 8. United Nations Radio: http://radio.un.org/ 9. Breaking News http://www.broadcast-live.com/ BBC(British), VOA(Voice of American), NHK(Japan) http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ 10. Live Radio and TV from Around the World http://www.broadcast-live.com/radionews.html http://www.headlinespot.com/type/television/ http://www.ilgradio.com/ibwd/ http://www.interworldradio.org/ http://www.live-radio.net/worldwide.shtml http://www.npr.org/programs/ http://www.pbs.or...

1. Commonly Used English http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html http://www.manythings.org/voa/words.htm http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kbarker/working_notes/ldoce-vocab.html 2. Informal English vocabulary A- M: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/informal1.htm N-Z: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/informal2.htm 3. Preposition http://www.english.sk.com.br/sk-pdv.html http://www.english-zone.com/preps/preps.php http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/verprep.htm http://www.smic.be/smic5022/add%20a%20preposition%20(1).htm 4. Irregular Verb Chart http://www.english-zone.com/verbs/verbchrt.html 5. AMERICAN ENGLISH - BRITISH ENGLISH http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/ae-be.html 6. Words of Love - A Valentine's Vocabulary http://www.english-zone.com/holidays/val-words.html 7. CAREER VOCABULARY http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/jobs.html 8. Commonly Confused Word http://esl.about.com/cs/vocabulary/a/a_confused.htm http://tinyurl.com/3e8c6 http://tinyurl.com/...

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