Discover in 10 Minutes What Really Keeps You in The Vicious Burnout Cycle
Discover in 10 Minutes What Really Keeps You in The Vicious Burnout Cycle
I donāt believe for a second that native English speakers would be superior to foreigners and those who hail from countries where other languages are used as means of communication of first choice. Iām very well aware, however, that people who are born native English speakers have an unfair advantage over non-native English speakers simply…
VIDEO SCRIPT BELOW: Hi guys, hello boys and girls, and welcome back to English Harmony video blog. I’m Robby, your English fluency mentor from englishharmony.com and in today’s video we’re going to look at what you should be doing when you’re not sure of usage of certain little English words such as “at”, “of”, “a”,…
I love simple, short English verbs such as TO DO, TO PUT, TO GET and others – the reason being: the same verb can be used in a huge number of different situations thus making it possible for you to communicate about A LOT without spending a lot of time on learning massive amounts of…
Back in the day when I was still naĆÆve and thought that learning plenty of English grammar rules would avail of increased fluency, I used to dedicate a significant amount of time to re-reading all those grammar rules and memorizing them off by heart. I mean ā I was actually MEMORIZING the grammar rules like…
As you may already know, there are two main ways in the English language you can talk about what another person has said: DIRECTĀ speech INDIRECTĀ or the so-called reported speech Direct speech is a word-by-word account of what the person in questionĀ said. For example, if your friend asked you āWould you mind looking after my pets…
VIDEO SCRIPT BELOW: Hello boys and girls and welcome back to my video blog! I’m Robby from englishharmony.com and I’m your fluency mentor, and today’s video is going to be dedicated to the following subject: Sometimes as you go about your English learning and improvement routine you will kind of realize that THE MORE YOU…
Unless youāre a super-fluent foreign English speaker, you most certainly find yourself in situations when you stumble upon certain English words and sentences which leaves you frustrated and angry with yourself, am I not right? š Well, Iām not talking about the typical tongue-twisters here such as āshe sells seashells by the seashoreā (try to…
VIDEO SCRIPT BELOW: Hi guys and welcome back to English Harmony video blog! I’m Robby from englishharmony.com and I’m your friend and mentor. Today, we’re going to talk about the following thing: You should never judge other people if they don’t know particular English words! Say, for example, you’re talking to someone, whether a native…
Sachin, who is a customer of mine and a prolific contributor to my YouTube channel, inspired me to write this article, here’s part of the comment he left on my YouTube video where I’m arguing against the prevalent view on Americans as being lazy language learners: One should accept that English language has contributed to…
Even if youāve been learning and using the English language for years, I can assure you that there are some quite practical things about this language that youāre not really aware of ā āAh well, this is just another article about English word origins, historic facts or funny things about the English languageā¦ā ā you…
FIRST OF ALL READ THE ARTICLE BELOW where Iāve explained everything about how irregular English verbs should be acquired: Learn English Irregular Verbs Through Collocations, Idioms and Phrasal Verbs! In that article youāll learn why it makes no sense to learn the typical irregular verb word strings consisting of 3 words such as: āblow ā…
The concept of WRONGNESS of making mistakes while speaking or writing in English is something thatās permeated the English teaching industry and itās lead so many non-native English speakers to believe that they suck at English unless they can make their speech and their English writing style PERFECT. Just picture the typical English class. The…
Iāve been going on about the importance of doing spoken English practiceĀ for years on this blog, and here are the 3 main benefits of doing it regularly: You develop your ability to speak spontaneously and fluently You prepare yourself for conversations with real people in real life You deal with your anxiety and fear of…
Hi guys and welcome back to English Harmony video blog – or welcome back to my podcast in case you’re listening to this as an audio file on iTunesĀ or on my blog. In today’s video I’m going to tell you about English tenses, namely – what I think about them and how you should go…
Hello everyone! š Today letās touch upon some English pronunciation related topic, namely – how you learn pronunciation of new English words and how to mimic the original pronunciation to the best of your benefit when you are trying to speak them out loud. And here’s a very interesting situation I encountered a few days…
Way back in 2012 I published an article about the importance of thinking in EnglishĀ if youāre serious about your English fluency development. The reason I wrote the said piece was because one of the primary causes of foreign English speakersā fluency issues is translation from oneās native language when speaking in English which is a…
Have you ever found that you canāt speak normal, fluent English with people who speak your own language? It may sound weird at first, but it happens more often than you may think ā The reason why Iām touching upon this phenomenon is the following comments I received on YouTube recently: Well, I have written…
Hi guys and welcome back to English Harmony video blog! I’m Robby, your friend and English fluency expert, and this time around I’m going to tell you that all these English fluency issuesĀ you might be having (and most likely you are having them, otherwise you wouldn’t have visited my blog and you wouldn’t be searching…
Iāve been an English fluency mentor for a good few years now, but it doesnāt mean I speak in English perfectly at all times. You see, Iām an active proponent of letting it goĀ when speaking in English which invariably involves making a few mistakes here and there, and thereās nothing wrong when a person capable…
Ever since I was in my early teens, Iāve been working on my English. Truth be told, my English learning methods didnāt do much good to my fluency because I spent most of my time learning English grammar, reading and writing and as a result I developed something I like to call a āwriting modeā…