Learn the grammar you need in everyday English in our new podcast series. Find new episodes here each week. For our other grammar programmes, click here. Phil knew the gate wouldn't stand up by itself ...

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The English language has a lot of weird spelling, grammar, and pronunciation rules. Here are 11 of its anomalies that make it ...

Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

Language learning is deeply personal—but some languages are, objectively, more accessible to native English speakers than others. Factors like shared roots, familiar grammar rules, a common writing ...

Learning a new language isn’t easy. It took me four years of high school French to be semi-comfortable ordering a croissant in a Parisian cafe. But, keeping a notebook while you’re learning a foreign ...

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...

Do humans learn grammar based on what they hear? Or is it already in our brain somewhere? Shutterstock How do we humans end up using language in a way that conforms to grammatical rules? Recent ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

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