I Want You To Speak English

How to make a lasting impression in just five minutes of conversation Often, we conduct a conversation with the sole purpose of simply keeping it going, rather than trying to make it especially interesting. The result is that it often becomes boring and uncomfortable. That’s why we prepared some tips for you on how to avoid this situation and instead seriously impress your conversation partner. A well-formulated question can make a person tell you a story. There’s no way they can answer it in the standard way. Break the mirror When a conversation is going badly, an amusing situation often develops which is sometimes referred to as "the mirror." In order to seem polite, we often ask our conversation partner standard questions, repeat the words they use, or just agree with everything they say. As a result, we lose any enjoyment we might...

What goes on in the brain of a bilingual person, and what are the effects of being raised in two languages? In this video and article, we discuss different perceptions of what it means to be bilingual.       I – What is bilingualism? As the above video shows, everybody’s got a different opinion. For some, being bilingual means being able to communicate effortlessly in two languages, even if one was learned later in life and communication takes an occasional detour. Others take error-free grammar and perfect pronunciation as the benchmarks. And it’s not just we mere mortals who are divided, scholars are equally split because the criteria and measurements are simply too vague and varied to settle on any one definition. From this, we can at least draw one conclusion: Bilingualism is a relative label, a question of degree rather than dichotomy. It’s also a fundamentally subjective phenomenon, one that is first and foremost felt . Do you feel it? ...

Ten things whose purpose we could never have guessed There’s a multitude of things that we see all around us on a daily basis, yet we don’t know what these things are really for. We are curious people by nature, so we decided to uncover the secrets of some of them — and we’re happy to share what we discovered with you! The hanging loop on the back of your shirt There are three plausible explanations for this. The first one is the most obvious — it’s for hanging up your shirt. The second explanation comes down to us from the era of removable shirt collars and handkerchiefs: it may have been intended to somehow help fasten a tie. The third idea is the most romantic. A student at an American university is said to have removed the loop from his shirt when he started dating a girl, to show that he was tak...

Going to an airport and flying on a plane can be scary and stressful when you are learning English. Even if you know a lot of English, it may be hard to understand all the new words you will hear in airports.  In this lesson, you will learn English vocabulary words commonly heard at the airport and on the airplane . Going to an airport can be both fun and frightening when you are learning  spoken English . That is why we put together this list of  English airport vocabulary words! These vocabulary words will help you at the airport and on the airplane. At the airport airfare  ( noun ) the cost of the plane ticket airline  ( noun ) the company that owns the plane arrival / arrivals  ( noun ) the time planes arrive at the airport baggage / luggage  ( noun ) bags or suitcases baggage claim  ( noun ) the place where passengers pick up their bags after the plane lands board  ( verb ) when the passengers get on the plane boarding pass  ( noun ...

How does the minimum wage compare around the globe? Just to satisfy our curiosity, we decided to compare minimum wages in different countries around the world! It should be noted that such a comparison can’t be made based on bare numbers alone. A lot depends on each particular country’s standard of living, taxation system, and currency exchange rates.   Iakov Kalinin / shutterstock.com Sergey Kelin / shutterstock.com Anton Ivanov / shutterstock.com Dmitry Chulov / shutterstock.com Ronnie Chua / shutterstock.com Lukasz Janyst / shutterstock.com S.Borisov / shutterstock.com Rrrainbow / shutterstock.com Repina Valeriya / shutterstock.com Oleg Znamenskiy / shutterstock.com TTstudio / shutterstock.com Reidl / shutterstock.com Maxim Tupikov / shu...