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“Fast” / “fastly” / “quickly” in English
Many English learners use the word “fastly” as an adverbial form of “fast”, which seems quite logical because this is the way adverbs are (...)
August 22, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Why AdSense is not a good way to monetize an educational blog
Most bloggers have heard about Google AdSense. AdSense is an advertising network developed by Google. The principle is that Google (...)
August 13, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English: Consonants
This article is an introduction to the symbols of consonants of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as it is used to denote (...)
August 6, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘vintage’ in English
Vintage means primarily “the yield of wine from one particular year”, but as an adjective, it started to be used for anything that is (...)
August 5, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation and spelling of ‘threshold’ in English
Popular etymologies of the kind that “threshold” was a plank placed at the doorway to hold pieces of grains inside during threshing (...)
August 4, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English: Vowels
This article is an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as it is used to denote pronunciation of English words. Each (...)
August 3, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘hindsight’ and ‘hinder’ in English
After something happens, you have a much better understanding in hindsight of what would have been appropriate to do in such a situation, (...)
August 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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English words in which ‘ch’ is pronounced as ‘sh’: An exhaustive list
There are quite a few English words in which “ch” is pronounced as “sh”. I have compiled a list of such words that, I hope, will be (...)
August 1, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of ‘rationale’, ‘morale’, and ‘chorale’ in English
Rationale means “reasons explaining a particular decision” and is pronounced /ˌræʃəˈnɑːl/ (ræ-shə-naal) in the UK resp. (...)
July 29, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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Pronunciation of letter groups (letter combinations) in English
Unlike some languages in which one grapheme (one letter) corresponds to one phoneme (one sound), English uses a complicated (and largely (...)
July 28, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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