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Group Communication: Why It’s Different From One-to-one Conversations + Tips & Tricks!
There are plenty of social situations when you’d be speaking with a group of other English speakers as opposed to just one person. Just think about the following situations: Having a lunch break in your work or college café with your colleagues; Having a cigarette with your work colleagues or schoolmates; Sharing a car ride…
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How to Write Formal e-Mails in English
I’ve been working in a number of jobs where there’s constant e-mailing going on – not to mention the fact that I’ve been running this website and providing customer support via e-mail since 2007 ❗ So, as you can imagine, I know a thing or two about writing e-mails and how to make your e-mails…
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English Words I Used to Mispronounce
At this stage I’ve lived in an English speaking country for more than 12 years, and I can call myself an English speaker for more than that because I was speaking the language long before I came to Ireland all those years ago. Anyway, having been an English speaker for so long doesn’t mean my language…
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Best Essay Writing Tools For Non-native English Speakers
The process of learning a new language is always challenging. Some ESL students have a natural talent to grasp the grammar and vocabulary aspects of English language, but most of them have serious problems to fit into the new environment. Although educators are getting better in motivating students to have a more enthusiastic approach towards…
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SUPER Important for English Fluency: SLOW Down Your Speech!
I can’t stress enough how important it is NOT to try and speak very fast! I’ve been doing it myself for a long, long time – mostly to impress others and HERE you can read why trying to impress others is a really stupid idea. You know yourself how it goes – you’re speaking with…
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38 Typical English Sentence Endings
A while back, I published an article containing 25 English sentence starters – they’re great to get your speech going and some of them can be used in pretty much any life situation. Then, a short time later, I received a request from a blog reader of mine to provide him with typical English phrases used…
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How Many English Phrases Do I Have to Learn to Become Fluent?
The typical question people ask me is: “How many English words do I have to learn to be fluent?” to which I always respond with – “It’s completely the WRONG question!!!” It’s not about the number of words you learn – it’s about how well you can use them in combination with each other! Basically…
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Don’t Try to Impress Others With Your English!
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW: Hi guys, and welcome back to Robby’s English Harmony video blog! In today’s video, I’m going to touch upon a subject that I’ve actually spoken about before, and it’s the fact that you don’t have to try to impress other people with your English. Typically what happens is, when you’re having a…
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How to Become a Good English Interpreter and Translate TV Shows Into Your Native Language
Fluent English can ONLY be acquired by learning IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS – and that’s why I’m going to highlight them for you in RED! As you may already have noticed, sometimes I create blog posts and videos based on my blog visitors’ comments and questions. This article is not an exception, and here’s the original comment that…
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English Phrase: Just Because… It Doesn’t Necessarily… It’s Quite the Opposite, Actually!
Fluent English can ONLY be acquired by learning IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS – and that’s why I’m going to highlight them for you in RED! VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW: Hi, guys! It’s Robby here from englishharmony.com and I’m back with another English idiomatic expression. Now, this time around, the expression in question is, “it doesn’t necessarily, it’s quite the…
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“WELL…” – the Simplest English Hesitation Word!
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW: Hi guys, and welcome back to Robby’s English Harmony Video Blog! In this video, I’m going to give you the simplest hesitation filler phrase possible, and here it is: “Well…” It’s just a word – “well.” And that’s how you can begin sentences when you have to buy some time and when you…
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How to Organize English Phrases for Optimal Learning
The moment you start reading my blog, you can’t help noticing that I’m highlighting specific word groups in red. These word groups are idiomatic expressions or the so-called collocations, and they’re very useful for all foreign English speakers for the following reasons: They allow us to speak using native-like English speech patterns; They enable us…
Discover in 10 Minutes What Really Keeps You in The Vicious Burnout Cycle
