Which little word can help you sound like a native speaker in English? It’s the word ‘get‘! The word ‘get’ is one of the trickiest in English. Most English dictionaries list at least thirty different meanings for ‘get’. But native English speakers use it all the time, in all kinds of situations! For example, which…
JUILLETTISTE. Nom féminin et masculin Au pluriel: Juillettistes. Définition: Exemple: “Les juillettistes partent, les aoûtiens arrivent“ L’origine: De Juillet. Synonyme: vacancier Bonus Ici, nous vous recommandons l’un des endroits les plus visités par les juillettistes chaque été:La Rochelle, belle ville portuaire située dans la région Poitou-Charentes en France, possède une scène de rue et une architecture et…
Let’s talk about some words that are easy to confuse – ‘travel’, ‘trip’, ‘journey’ and ‘voyage’. Travel This means to go from somewhere to somewhere else. It’s most commonly used as a verb: We also use ‘travelling’ (sometimes with ‘go’ or ‘do’) to talk about the activity of going to new places: ‘Travel’ can also…
The Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1936 – 8 September 2022) Queen of the United Kingdom from 6th February 1952 until her death on 8th September 2022. Her reign of 70 year and 214 days, is the longest of any British monarch and the longest recorded of any female head of state…
LACONISME. nom masculin Au pluriel: laconismes Définition: L’origine: Dérivé de laconique, avec le suffixe -isme; le grec ancien Lakônismós a le sens de imitation des manières, ou du langage des Lacédémoniens. Définition ancienne de laconique Discours, escrit, repartie breve & sententieuse à la maniere des Lacedemoniens. Le stile Laconique a esté estimé chez toutes les nations. Il n’y…
Hearing is the beginning of our interaction with the environment, and this begins before we’re born; because hearing is the only sense that works at 100% in the gestational stage. So the brain’s function in language learning is to pick up sound information, to get used to the tonality, musicality and energy of the words.…
MISOLOGIE. nom féminin Définition: L’origine Du grec,« miso- » (la haine) + « -logie » (ici dans le sens de raison) La notion provient de la tradition philosophique occidentale, et a été un objet de réflexion pour les philosophes de Platon jusqu’à Kant. Platon a analysé dès l’Antiquité le sens et la genèse de la misologie, dans le Phédon. Dans ce dialogue, Socrate explique à ses interlocuteurs que la « misologie »,…
Have you ever thoughts on how Englsih learning changed after Covid?. Elena King, Associate Director of the TESOL Program at Greensboro College visited the Ticmas living room at the TESOL Congress in Colombia, and spoke about the challenges that language teaching poses today. Elena King holds a PhD in Education from the University of North…
For me one of the biggest challenges when learning a language is how to have a good pronunciation.So don’t worry, here are some tips to improve your pronunciation ; but remember that you must be patient, dedicated, consistent and highly motivated to achieve it. The most important tip We learn from mistakes; at the beginning…
This is one of the most common tips given to us when we are learning a new language, but does it really work? There’s a small reason why it’s probably not working, and that’s that it’s not enough to just sit and eat popcorn without understanding anything. That’s why I recommend that you always keep…