Ha Jin was never terribly interested in learning English. After the Cultural Revolution ended and Chinese universities finally reopened in 1977, the 21-year-old applied to Heilongjiang University and ...
Today’s post is the latest in a series sharing teachers’ favorite lessons for English- language-learner newcomers. Even though the school year is over, or near its end, for most of us, it’s never too ...
500 Words judge Sir Lenny Henry and Naomi Wilkinson are on a mission to collect the key ingredients of a brilliant story with ...
Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...
In Lesson 16, you learned to express more than one action in one sentence by linking the TE-form of verbs. If you add the particle KARA (after), after the TE-form of verbs, you can make it clear that ...
Following a successful pilot scheme in the summer of 2020, the project took off in September and has been growing at an amazing pace. Living with COVID-19 for a year has made it increasingly ...
In Lesson 7, Anna was surprised at seeing many cakes at the store, and said KÊKI GA IPPAI ARIMASU (There are lots of cakes). As in this case, if the subject is an inanimate thing, we use ARIMASU. We ...
THE headline for today’s column appeared in the Daily Observer (March 24) over Nadine Wilson’s story about an agreement between Jamaica and Britain under which experts from the British Council will ...