Wednesday, August 26, 2015

#01 Pronunciation: Tips to Improve Your Diction!

Pronunciation is very important in language. Most of the time, it hides a poor Grammar as well! English is a very complex language and has various accents. Which one do you prefer? But I think the easiest to achieve or practice is the Standard American Pronunciation.

The key to a perfect pronunciation is to practice the long and short vowel sounds first. Make sure to master them! Yes! The short and long vowel sounds! We gotta admit, that Asians have strong native accents and we don't really have long and short vowel sounds in our diction.

#01 Conversation: Short-term and Long- term Goals

Today, I had a free-talking class with Mr. Yongseok about short- term and long- term goals. I felt that this is a very nice topic to talk about with your adult students. They're the people who are actually planning their lives ahead, so it's more appropriate to talk about this subject with them. 

10 Questions to Ask about Short- term and Long Term Goals:

Friday, August 21, 2015

#01 Basic Information About Online English Academy

An Online English Academy is a type of school where students and teachers interact via internet to conduct their English lessons. Online academies use different video conferencing programs to communicate with each other. Online schools get English native-speakers or Foreigners who use English as their secondary language, like Filipinos, Thai, and etc... 

The most famous online students are Koreans. As far as we know, they're the first ones who actually founded the idea of online classes. It started in phone classes and then later on- video classes. As years go by, not only Koreans study online. We have Chinese, Brazilians, Japanese and other non-English speakers.